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Good morning, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced a number of welfare measures as part of yesterday’s Summer Budget. The measures will be phased in and will not affect any claimants until April 2016 at the earliest, with many changes affecting only new claimants. The main changes include:…

DWP have helpfully produced a diagram to help tenant and landlords understanding of the information needed to process a claim. The diagram could be easily incorporated into a landlord’s leaflet etc,.

DWP provide an explanation of how to make a claim and what supporting documents are needed.

DWP provide an explanation, including links to other parts of UC administration and components.

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DWP recently announced the Discretionary Housing Payments budget for 2015/16.

Surprisingly, this year’s budget has been cut by around 25% from £165M to £125M nationally – through cuts to previous core funding, benefits cap and LHA allocations, although, in the case of LHA a further £45M of targetted funding…

Good afternoon, DWP has now confirmed that tranches 3 & 4 of the national rollout, should complete between September to November 2015 and January to April 2016 respectively. The announcement, including details of areas and associated dates, can be found View Article

The Tribunal Service has recently written to councils, RSLs and other bodies, who employ welfare rights staff, pointing to a Representative’s briefing which explains some important procedural differences concerning Universal Credit appeals, involving joint claims from couples.

The briefing…

As of today, 15th July 2015, a new e-mail facility is available allowing Social Landlords to make Alternative Payment Arrangement (APAs) applications, in respect of Universal Credit.

Background

DWP introducing the new approach said:

“We are committed to making UC work for landlords as well as claimants. As a…

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One of our website members has shared with me a copy of a very informative & helpful Universal Credit leaflet they have produced for tenants in preparation for rollout later this year. They also agreed that I can share this information with other members, believing, like me, this…

A few weeks ago, a new e-mail facility was made available, allowing Social Landlords to make Alternative Payment Arrangement (APAs) applications, including requests for payment redirection, in respect of Universal Credit. by e-mail, rather than sending applications and associated back-up evidence, by post, to Wolverhamption. I’m pleased to say, DWP…