Publications

The Department for Communities (DfC) presents its Social Fund Account which has been prepared in accordance with a direction issued by the Department of Finance (DoF) in pursuance of section 146(4) of the Social Security Administration (NI) Act 1992.

The purpose of the proposed legislation is to amend various social security regulations to apply a new capital disregard to payments made from the estate of a deceased infected person which derive from payments made to the estate by an approved infected blood scheme.

The Department for Communities (DfC), Belfast Regeneration Directorate (BRD) has appointed Direct Access as an external and independent access consultancy firm.

Support to encourage repair to listed buildings in line with conservation principles; to make repairs while retaining the maximum amount of historic fabric.

The Scheme of Emergency Financial Assistance (SEFA) is designed to aid individual householders who have suffered severe inconvenience as a result of internal flooding to their properties.

Changes are required to legislation providing for disability and carers’ benefits relating to the genuine and sufficient link (GSL) test.

Under the revised policy, Working Age people, including certain mixed age couples (MAC) (couples where one member of the couple is over State Pension Age and the other is not) who were protected from the introduction of the mixed age couple’s policy in 2019 ‘protec

The underlying aim is to help ensure that gambling is conducted in a fair and open way; protecting persons under the age of 18 and other vulnerable persons from being harmed or exploited by gambling; and make assistance available to persons who are or may be affected by proble

The Department for Communities has published the Summary Report relating to the Private Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.

In June 2020, the Northern Ireland Executive agreed to proceed with the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) commitment to review Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) in Northern Ireland.

In June 2020, the Northern Ireland Executive agreed to proceed with the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) commitment to review Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) in Northern Ireland.

The Department for Communities is the sponsor Department for the Northern Ireland Museums Council.

Please note the closing date for this competition has been extended to 12 noon on Monday 7 October 2024. Late applications will not be considered.

There is an undeniable need to improve our existing building stock to reduce carbon emissions and make them sustainable into the future. Our traditional and historic (solid wall) buildings play a part in this. 

This test and learn pilot scheme proposal can be linked to the DFC “Building Inclusive Communities 2020-2025” strategy, the DFC Operational Strategy 2020-2025 and Northern Ireland Executive’s Programme for Government (PfG) (2016-2021) indicators and outcomes.

The new CF73 (Notification of Hospital Admission for patients on Benefit or State Pension) should be fully completed by an admission clerk upon any DfC customers admission.