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  • Decision Makers Guide - volume 3

    Topics:
    • Benefits and pensions, 
    • Decision Making

    Date published: 23 July 2015

    Last updated: 16 October 2025

    Volume 3 of the Decision Makers Guide contains reference chapters for decision makers and professional advisers, on the interpretation of legislation relating to subjects common to all benefits. 

    Subjects common to all benefits – Payment of and Deductions from benefit | Overpayments, recoverability, adjustments and recoupments | Evidence | Living together | Imprisonment | Incapacity for work | Welfare to work | Earnings | Dependency increases | Overlapping Benefits | Hospital in-patients

    Documents

    • DMG Chapter 18 - Hospital in-Patients (October 2015)Adobe PDF (698.32 KB)
    • DMG Chapter 17 - Overlapping Benefits (November 2019)Adobe PDF (630.87 KB)
    • DMG Chapter 16 - Dependancy increases (February 2019)Adobe PDF (633.03 KB)
    • DMG Chapter 15 - Earnings for non-income-related benefits (June 2025)Adobe PDF (813.22 KB)
    • DMG Chapter 14 - Welfare to Work (amendment 20)Adobe PDF (855.16 KB)
    • DMG Chapter 13 - Incapacity for Work (October 2021)Adobe PDF (1.03 MB)
    • DMG Chapter 12 - Imprisonment (November 2019)Adobe PDF (400.51 KB)
    • DMG Chapter 11 - Living together as a married couple (October 2025)Adobe PDF (255.37 KB)
    • DMG Chapter 10 - Evidence of age, marriage and death (May 2023)Adobe PDF (711.74 KB)
    • DMG Chapter 09 - Overpayments, Recoverability, Adjustments and Recoupments (September 2025)Adobe PDF (635.34 KB)
    • DMG Chapter 08 - Payment of Benefit/Deductions from Benefit (November 2019)Adobe PDF (423.47 KB)
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