IRRV Alert - week ending 19th March 2021
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Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2021 (18 March 2021)
Guidance
Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2021
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published:
28 January 2021
Last updated:
18 March 2021, see all updates
Documents
A5/2021: Pre-settled status – effect of the Court of Appeal decision in the Fratila case
Ref: A5/2021HTML
A4/2021: The Universal Credit (Persons who have attained state pension credit qualifying age) (Amendment) Regulations 2020
Ref: A4/2021HTML
A3/2021: Housing Benefit (person who have attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (Revised)
Ref: A3/2021HTML
A2/2021:War Pensions uprating 2021-22
Ref: A2/2021HTML
A1/2021: Housing Benefit uprating: 2021-22 (2nd revision)
Ref: A1/2021HTML
Details
Adjudication circulars provide advice, guidance and information on Housing Benefit to local authority staff. They update the Housing Benefit guidance manual.
The circulars make many references to Council Tax Benefit as this was administered by local authorities alongside Housing Benefit until March 2013. In April 2013 Council Tax Benefit was replaced by local authorities’ own council tax support and reduction schemes, removing DWP’s involvement.
Readers will need to consider references to Council Tax Benefit in these documents accordingly.
For enquiries about the distribution of circulars, email: housing.correspondenceandpqs@dwp.gov.uk
Published 28 January 2021
Last updated 18 March 2021 + show all updates