NEWS

The latest DWP news can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-work-pensions. 

GOV.UK ALERTS

Benefits

• Housing Benefit adjudication circulars 2024 (6 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-benefit-adjudication-circulars-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=78a27c01-4134-4c91-8fa6-7a1fe9b0369d&utm_content=daily.

• Benefit expenditure and caseload tables 2024 (6 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/benefit-expenditure-and-caseload-tables-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=fcba5d1f-1852-441d-8720-b1225cb255ea&utm_content=daily.

Universal Credit

• Advice for decision making: staff guide (9 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/advice-for-decision-making-staff-guide?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=b031ec65-b69e-4682-a6c7-2dab6865d993&utm_content=daily.

​​​​​​​Miscellaneous

• DWP: workforce management information November 2024 (9 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-workforce-management-information-november-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=46568d04-2536-4ee7-940c-495618c60b55&utm_content=daily.

• Pensioners’ Incomes release strategy (9 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensioners-incomes-release-strategy?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=cc01c02e-32ca-4cd3-bf12-0cc110bbde3c&utm_content=daily.

• Below Average Resources: developing a new poverty measure (9 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/below-average-resources-developing-a-new-poverty0-measure?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=45c74aad-8971-48e2-a9d6-df84e7b5148e&utm_content=daily.

• Generic guidance for DWP providers (8 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/framework-generic-guidance-provider-guidance?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=a876b119-f6ca-4b23-946a-21a88cafec2d&utm_content=daily.

• Cold Weather Payment estimates: 2024 to 2025 (8 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cold-weather-payment-estimates-2024-to-2025?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=bb6accbb-bdf3-4d57-9946-d39811b36a49&utm_content=daily.

• DWP complaints: Annual report by the Independent Case Examiner 2023 to 2024 (6 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-complaints-annual-report-by-the-independent-case-examiner-2023-to-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=13de667c-d987-4aff-a4d9-5e46b40de4f0&utm_content=daily.

• Cold Weather Payment estimates: 2024 to 2025 (6 January 2025)
  https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/cold-weather-payment-estimates-2024-to-2025?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=6baabc14-bb2a-4429-9cc8-3e56be5e1009&utm_content=daily.

ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 2023/24

The Annual Report and Accounts 2023/24 of the DWP can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dwp-annual-report-and-accounts-2023-to-2024?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=e34d8448-2363-47f0-8e0a-7337a412f7e8&utm_content=daily.