Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2024
Adjudication circulars provide updates to the Housing Benefit guidance manual for local authority staff.
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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 Department for Work and Pension’s involvement.
Readers will need to consider references to Council Tax Benefit in these documents accordingly.
For enquiries about the distribution of circulars, email lawelfare.correspondence@dwp.gov.uk.
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 Department for Work and Pension’s involvement.
Readers will need to consider references to Council Tax Benefit in these documents accordingly.
For enquiries about the distribution of circulars, email lawelfare.correspondence@dwp.gov.uk.
Updates to this page
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Added HB circular A11/2024: Housing Benefit uprating for the financial year ending March 2026.
Update history
2025-07-16 12:08
A new version of ‘Appendix B, LA2: Valuation of interest in property or land (Local Authority use)’ has been added to the page.
2025-01-06 09:30
Added HB circular A11/2024: Housing Benefit uprating for the financial year ending March 2026.
2024-11-27 15:09
Revisions have been made to bulletin A10/2024 and it is now titled ‘A10/2024 Revised: The AT Court of Appeal judgment and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights assessment’. The changes were to add clarity to paragraph 13.
2024-10-22 16:02
Added HB circular A10/2024: The AT Court of Appeal judgment and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights assessment.
2024-07-16 13:09
Added Housing Benefit circular A8/2024: Housing Benefit operational information, performance support and engagement for the financial year ending March 2025
2024-07-11 13:09
Added Housing Benefit circular A9/2024: The Social Security (State Pension Age Claimants – Closure of Tax Credits) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
2024-05-21 15:21
Added Housing Benefit circular A7/2024: The Carer’s Assistance (Carer’s Support Payment) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2023.
2024-04-30 09:50
Added Housing Benefit circular A6/2024: The Social Security (Class 2 National Insurance Contributions) (Consequential Amendments and Savings) Regulations 2024.
2024-04-23 09:23
A5/2024: Housing Benefit Award Accuracy Initiative for the financial year ending March 2025 has been added.
2024-04-11 15:27
Added Housing Benefit circular A4/2024: War Pensions uprating for the financial year ending March 2025.
2024-03-26 12:37
Added HB circular A3/2024: Valuation of capital assets. Added Appendix A, LA1: Valuation of interest in property or land (Claimant use) and also Appendix B, LA2: Valuation of interest in property or land (Local Authority use).
2024-03-04 16:24
Added HB circular A2/2024: Victims of forced marriage and victims of transnational marriage abandonment.
2024-01-29 15:59
First published.