Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable, DMG Vol 5 Ch 28: Income other than earnings and DMG Vol 5 Ch 29: Capital, with annotations to DMG memo 04/25.

Updated chapter 33: Payment questions and the volume 6 summary of changes. A note has been added at paragraph 33413 to give the rate deducted for miscellaneous accommodation costs for the tax year 2018 to 2019.

Updated Chapter 23: Normal amount payable and volume 4 summary of changes. The changes are: Paragraphs 23182/23183 amended to include Adult Disability Payment (ADP) and Child Disability Payment (CDP) and 23205 to include ADP. Paragraph 23181 amended to make clear it is the enhanced rate of ADP that is applicable when considering entitlement to the Enhanced Disability Premium.

Updated DMG Vol 5 Ch 27: Self-employed earners and share fishermen, and also DMG Vol 5: Summary of changes from March 2022.

Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable, Vol 4: Summary of changes, Vol 5 Ch 26: Employed earners and Vol 5: Summary of changes.

DMG Vol 7 Chapter 39 and Chapter 40 updated along with Vol 7 Summary of Changes.

Updated 'DMG Vol 5 Ch 28: Income other than earnings' and also 'DMG Vol 5: Summary of changes from March 2022'.

Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable, Vol 5 Ch 26: Employed earners and Vol 5 Ch 27: Self-employed earners and share fishermen. All cross referenced to DMG memo 2/2024.

Updated DMG Vol 6 Ch 30: Students, young claimants and their partners.

Updated DMG Vol 4: Ch 20, JSA and IS, conditions of entitlement and DMG Vol 4: Summary of changes from December 2020.

Updated DMG Vol 5 Ch 29: Capital and Summary of changes from March 2022 (February 2024).

Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 21: Jobseeker’s Allowance Labour market questions, special conditions for JSA(Cont) and jobseeking periods and Summary of changes from December 2020: February 2024.

Updated DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments and summary of changes from December 2020 - updates for January 2024.

Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 21: Jobseeker’s Allowance Labour market questions –special conditions for JSA(Cont) and jobseeking periods, DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable, DMG Vol 5 Ch 26: Employed earners, DMG Vol 5 Ch 29: Capital and also DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments.

Updated 'DMG Vol 5 Ch 29: Capital'.

Updated DMG Vol 6 Ch 33: Payment questions.

Updated DMG volume 6, chapter 33: Payment questions and the summary of changes.

Updated DMG volume 5, chapter 29: Capital and summary of changes for August 2023.

Added DMG volume 7 summary of changes for August 2023.

Updated DMG volume 7, chapter 39: Social Fund.

Updated DMG Vol 5 Ch 28: Income other than earnings.

Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable and DMG Vol 5 Ch 29: Capital.

Updated DMG Vol 6 Ch 33: Payment questions and also DMG Vol 6: Summary of changes from January 2021.

Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable, Updated DMG Vol 4: Summary of changes

Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable, DMG Vol 5 Ch 26: Employed earners, DMG Vol 5 Ch 27: Self-employed earners and share fishermen, DMG Vol 6 Ch 33: Payment questions and DMG Vol 6: Summary of changes from January 2021.

Updated DMG Ch 29: Capital and DMG Vol 5 summary of changes.

Updated DMG Volume 5 Chapter 29: Capital

Updated 'DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments' and 'Vol 7 summary of changes from December 2020'.

Updated DMG volume 7 chapter 39: Social Fund and summary of changes.

Updated DMG Vol 5 Ch 27: Self-employed earners and share fishermen, paragraphs 27600 – 27749, Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments and added DMG Vol 7: Summary of changes from December 2020.

Updated DMG volume 7 chapter 39: Social Fund. Also added summary of changes.

Updated DMG volume 4 chapter 23: Normal amount payable. Cross referenced to new memo 12/22.

Updated DMG Vol 4: Chapter 20, JSA and IS, conditions of entitlement and summary of changes (DMG Vol 4: Summary of changes from December 2020).

Updated DMG volume 6 chapter 34: JSA Sanctions and added summary of changes up to May 2022.

Updated DMG volume 5 chapter 29: Capital and summary of changes.

Updated DMG Vol 6 Ch 33: Payment questions.

Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable.

Updated DMG vol 4, chapter 23: Normal amount payable, vol 5, chapter 29: Capital and vol 6, chapter 34: Sanctions and updated summary of changes to vol 5 up to 31 March.

Added Vol 5 summary of changes. Updated Vol 5 chapters 28 and 29.

Replaced 3 chapters: 'DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable', 'DMG Vol 5 Ch 28: Income other than earnings' and 'DMG Vol 5 Ch 29: Capital'

Replaced 'DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments' and 'DMG Vol 7: Summary of changes from December 2020'.

Updated DMG Vol 6 Ch 35: Hardship and DMG Vol 6: Summary of changes from January 2021.

Updated DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments.

Updated DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments.

Updated chapters 20, 23 and 35.

Updated Vol 7 Ch 39 and Vol 7 summary of changes.

Updated DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments.

Updated chapters 23, 26, 27 and 33.

Updated chapters 23 and 39.

Updated 'DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments' and 'DMG Vol 7: Summary of changes from December 2020'.

Updated DMG Vol 7 chapter 39 and DMG Vol 7: Summary of changes from December 2020.

Updated DMG Vol 6 Ch 34: Social Fund payments and added DMG Vol 6: Summary of changes from January 2021.

Updated DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments and added DMG Vol 7: Summary of changes from December 2020.

Added revised DMG Vol 7 Ch 39: Social Fund payments.

Updated DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable. Added DMG Vol 4: Summary of changes from December 2020.

Updated DMG Vol 6 Ch 34 to add references to DMG memo 23/20.

Updated chapters 28 and 29.

Updated DMG Vol 5 (Jobseeker's Allowance and Income Support), chapter 28 - Income other than earnings with guidance on how to treat the NHS Test and Trace self-isolation payment.

Updated Vol 6 Chapter 33: Removes reference to child support maintenance (CSM) deductions (which have now moved to chapter 8) at 33302, 33313, 33320, 33321, 33326, 33329 and 33330. Change made to personal expenses rate due to uprating on 6/4/20 at 33413 and 33420. Paragraphs removed at 33595 to 33649 (moved to chapter 8). Appendices 1 and 2 removed as now redundant.

Updated chapters 28, 29, 30 and 39.

Updated Chapters 20, 21, 26, 27 and 29. Now include references to DMG memo 13/20.

Added revised chapters 34 and 39. Summary of changes in 'DMG Vol 6: Amendment 54, June 2020' and 'DMG Vol 7: Amendment 45, June 2020'.

Added revised chapters 22, 23, 27 and 28. Summary of changes in 'DMG Vol 4: Amendment 61, June 2020' and 'DMG Vol 5: Amendment 59, February 2020'.

Added revised 'DMG Vol 5 Ch 28: Income other than earnings' and 'DMG Vol 5 Ch 29: Capital'.

Revised versions of Vol 4: Ch 20, Vol 4: Ch 21, Vol 5: Ch 26 and Vol 5: Ch 28.

Revised versions of 'DMG Vol 4 Ch 21: Jobseeker’s Allowance Labour market questions, special conditions for JSA (Cont) and jobseeking periods' 'DMG Vol 4 Ch 22: Membership of the family' and 'DMG Vol 4 Ch 24: Special cases.'

Revised versions of DMG Vol 4: Ch 20, JSA and IS, conditions of entitlement, and DMG Vol 4 Ch 21: Jobseeker’s Allowance Labour market questions, special conditions for JSA (Cont) and jobseeking periods.

Added revised DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable, Vol 5 Ch 26: Employed earners and Vol 5 Ch 27: Self-employed earners and share fishermen, with annotation to DMG memo 5/20.

Updated DMG volume 4, chapters 21 to 24, volume 5, chapters 28 and 29, volume 6, chapters 30 and 35 and volume 7, chapter 39. Changes listed in the amendments for February 2020 PDFs.

Revised DMG volume 4, chapter 23: Normal amount payable, to include annotations to DMG Memo 02/20.

Added revised 'DMG Vol 7: Amendment 43, October 2018' to include annotations to DMG Memo 01/20: Civil Partnerships for opposite sex couples.

Added revised version of 'DMG Vol 6 Ch 34: Sanctions' as it now has references to 'DMG memo 15/19: JSA higher level sanctions amendments 2019.'

Added revised DMG vol 4, chapter 20: JSA and IS, conditions of entitlement, chapter 23: Normal amount payable and amendment 59, which lists the changes to the chapters. Also added revised DMG vol 5, chapter 28: Income other than earnings, chapter 29: capital and amendment 58, which lists the changes to the chapters.

Added revised Volume 4, Chapter 28 and Chapter 29. Added revised Volume 7, Chapter 39.

Updated chapter 39 with guidance about the Children's Funeral Fund in England.

Updated chapter 33 'Payment questions' with changes for deductions for arrears of child maintenance.

Added revised 'DMG Vol 4 Ch 23: Normal amount payable', 'DMG Vol 4 Ch 24: Special cases' and 'DMG Vol 5 Ch 26: Employed earners' and added associated amendment notes 'DMG Vol 4: Amendment 58, June 2019' and 'DMG Vol 5: Amendment 57, June 2019'.

Updated chapter 20, JSA and IS - conditions of entitlement and chapter 23 - normal amount payable.

Added revised volume 4 chapter 23, volume 5 chapter 29 and volume 6 chapter 33 with amendments listed in amendment documents 57, 56 and 52, respectively

Revised DMG volume 7 chapter 39, with amendments listed in amendment 43.

Added revised DMG volume 4 chapter 24, with changes in volume 4, amendment 56, and revised DMG volume 5 chapters 28 and 29, with changes in volume 5, amendment 55.

Revised DMG volume 4 chapter 24 - removed references to pensioners, the elderly, the sick in religious orders (dealt with in chapters 54 and 78). Volume 7 chapter 39 - removed references to Universal Credit Programmes.

Revised DMG volume 5 chapter 29: Capital. Annotated to DMG memo 12/18.

Deleted out of date DMG volume 7 chapter 37 (Transitional protection from UB and IS to JSA).

Published revised DMG volume 4 chapters 20, 21, 23 and amendment 55, volume 5 chapters 26, 27 and 28 and amendment 54 and volume 6 chapter 34 and amendment 51. The amendments to the chapters are listed in amendments 55, 54 and 51, respectively.

Removed out of date guidance from DMG volume 6 chapter 31 and volume 7 chapter 40. PDF left spare and intentionally blank.

Added revised DMG chapters 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 34. The amendments to these chapters are listed in amendments 54 (vol 4), 53 (vol 5), 50 (vol 5) and 50 (vol 6).

Revised DMG volume 4, chapter 20: JSA and IS - conditions of entitlement. Annotated to new memo 24/17.

Added revised DMG volume 4 chapters 22, 24 and volume 5 chapter 28. The amendments to these chapters are listed in amendments 53 (vol 4) and 52 (vol 5).

Added revised DMG Vol 4 Ch 21: Jobseeker’s Allowance Labour market questions, special conditions for JSA(Cont) and jobseeking periods, DMG Vol 5 Ch 26: Employed earners and DMG Vol 6 Ch 30: Students, young claimants and their partners - annotated to new memo 21/17.

Added revised DMG volume 5 chapters 28 and 29. Annotated to DMG memo 20/17.

Added revised DMG volume 6 chapter 35: Hardship. Annotated to DMG memo 18/17.

Added revised DMG chapters 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 35 and 39. The amendments to these chapters are listed in amendments 52 (vol 4), 51 (vol 5), 49 (vol 6) and 42 (vol 7). Also deleted out of date amendments 46 and 47 (vol 4), 45 and 46 (vol 5), 43 and 44 (vol 6) and 40 (vol 7).

Revised volume 4 chapter 23, volume 5 chapters 28 and 29 and volume 7 chapter 39 - annotated to memo 14/2017.

Revised DMG volume 4, chapter 23. All paragraphs were missing from the previous version.

Revised DMG volume 4, chapters 22 and 23, volume 5, chapters 28 and 29, volume 6 chapter 33 and volume 7 chapter 39. All annotated to memos.

Revised DMG volume 4, chapter 23 and volume 7, chapter 39 annotated to memos 6 to 8/17.

Added revised chapters 23, 26, 27 and 33 with new rates from April 2017.

Published revised chapter 28 annotated with new memo 3/17.

Added revised chapters 20, 23, 26, 28, 30, 34, 35 and 39. The amendments to these PDFs are listed in amendments 51 (vol 4), 50 (vol 5), 48 (vol 6) and 41 (vol 7).

Published revised volume 4, chapter 21: Jobseeker’s Allowance Labour market questions, special conditions for JSA(Cont) and jobseeking periods, annotated to new memo 25/16.

Published revised volume 7, chapter 39 annotated to new memo 24/16.

Added revised chapters 23, 28, 30, 33 and amendments vol 4 - 50, vol 5 - 49 and vol 6 - 47, which list the amendments.

Published revised chapter 30 annotated to new memo 19/16.

Added revised chapters 21, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 28. The amendments to these PDFs are listed in amendments 49 (vol 4), 48 (vol 5) and 46 (vol 6).

Published revised chapter 20 annotated with new memo 12/16.

Published revised vol 4 amendment 48 and vol 5 amendment 47 - page 2 - amended abbreviations and statute abbreviations.

Published revised chapters 23, 26 and 39 annotated with new memo 11/16.

Added revised chapters 23, 26, 27 and 33 annotated to DMG memo 10/16.

Added revised chapters 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 34 and amendments 4, 5 and 6, which lists the amendments.

Added revised chapters 20, 21, 23, 24, 29, 30, 33 to 35 and 39. The amendments to these PDFs are listed in amendments 47 (vol 4), 46 (vol 5), 44 (vol 6) and 40 (vol 7).

Replaced chapter 39: Changes to weather stations and postcode districts. See memo 21/15.

Added revised chapters 20, 21, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, and 34. The amendments to these PDFs are listed in amendments 46 (vol 4), 45 (vol 5) and 43 (vol 6).

Added revised ch 23 annotated to memo 19/15: Housing costs and changes to standard interest rate.

Published revised chapters 20, 21, 25 to 30 and 34 annotated with new relevant memos 6 to 12/15.

Replaced chapters 21, 23, 26, 27 and 33 with revised versions annotated with new memo 5/2015.

Added revised chapters 20, 21, 23, 27, 29, 33, 34, 35 and 39. The amendments to these PDFs are listed in amendments 45 (vol 4), 44 (vol 5), 42 (vol 6) and 39 (vol 7).

Replaced ch 28 and 39 annotated with new memos 1 and 2/15.

Added revised chapter 21, 28, 29, 34 and 35 annotated to memo 38/14.

Published revised chapter 23 annotated with new memos 33 and 34/14.

Added revised: vol 4 chapters 20 to 23 and new amendment 44 - vol 5 chapters 26, 28 and 29 and new amendment 43 - vol 6 chapters 30, 33, 34 and 35 and new amendment 41 - vol 7 chapter 39.

Added revised chapters of volumes 4 to 7. See amendment PDFs 43 (vol 4), 42 (vol 5), 40 (vol 6) and 38 (vol 7) for a list of changes made.

Removed vol 6 chapter 31 - Urgent case payments - no longer current.

Replaced vol 4 ch 23 and vol 5 ch 28. See DMG memo 9/14 for details of amendments.

Added revised chapters 21 to 28, 30, 33 to 35 and 39. The amendments to these PDFs are listed in amendments 37, 39, 41 and 42.

Added revised PDFs of vol 4 - chapters 21, 23 and 24. See vol 4 amendment 42 - Feb 14 - for details of what's changed in each chapter.

Added revised PDFs of vol 6 - chapters 30, 33, 34, and 35. See vol 6 amendment 39 - Feb 14 - for details of what's changed in each chapter.

Added revised chs 25 - Income (incorporates memo 22/13 - relevant to ch 25 guidance ), 27 - Self-employed earners and share fishermen (incorporates memo 22/13 - relevant to ch 27 guidance), 30 - Students, young claimants and their partners (new para 30772 on Prince's Trust and NCS courses and ref to memo 22/13 removed) and 39 - Social Fund payments (Incorporates memo 17/13: Winter Fuel Payments – Amendment to Regulations and memo 19/13: Social Fund Cold Weather Payments, also minor changes to legal references - 39169, 39903, 39918.

Added revised ch 24 on joint-claim couples and members of a religious order and incorporate memo 22/13: JSA and Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment – New Schemes from 5 Nov 13.

Added revised ch 23 with added guidance on public service pensions for the purpose of contributory Jobseeker's Allowance and incorporate memos 14/13 (Universal Credit) and 13/13 (Armed forces independence payment). Added revised ch 25 incorporating memo 22/13 (Misc amendments).

Replaced DMG Vol 6 Ch 34: Sanctions - chapter entirely re-written.

Amended ch 23 and amendment 41 to incorporate memos DMG 09/13: Rates for Income Tax IS/JSA/ESA/SPC benefit rates and social security contributions and DMG 13/13: Armed Forces Independence payment Consequential amendments.

Updated editions of: DMG Volume 4 Chapter 21 JSA: labour market questions and DMG Volume 6 Chapter 34 Sanctions published.

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