Publications

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. Householders who are deemed eligible under the criteria...

The Northern Ireland Homelessness bulletin is a biannual publication which contains information on a range of areas relating to homelessness. The report is currently divided into three sections which are: Homeless Presenters; Homeless Acceptances; and...

This quarterly publication provides an overview on the performance of the Child Maintenance Service in Northern Ireland. This publication contains information up to the quarter ending March 2025.

Intermediate Rent is a new affordable rented housing model which intends to provide an additional rental choice for lower to moderate income households, providing longer-term, higher quality, well-managed homes at below market rents. The Department...

The 2025-26 Rates Support Grant provided to Councils is to be set at £3.124m which remains the same as the grant provided in 2024-25. The (budget) policy is trying to meet the challenge of the...

The Department for Communities invites proposals for the development of lands at 308-312 Shankill Road in Belfast. Proposals should be submitted no later than 12 noon on Thursday 4 September 2025.

The minutes of each Department Management Board (DMB) will be available once they have been ratified. A copy of the ratified minutes are attached.

The minutes of each Department Management Board (DMB) will be available once they have been ratified. A copy of the ratified minutes are attached.

The minutes of each Department Management Board (DMB) will be available once they have been ratified. A copy of the ratified minutes are attached.

Section 34(1) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 requires that the Department prepare an annual report of its proceedings under that Act and the Charities (Northern Ireland) Order 1987.

The Family Resources Survey for Northern Ireland 2023-24 was released on 29 May 2025. The proposed date of next publication will be Summer 2026.

The Northern Ireland Housing Bulletin is a quarterly bulletin containing information on new housing starts and completions, homelessness, the NI House Price Index and new house sales and prices.

The next phase of Universal Credit (UC) known as ‘Move to UC’ will require those customers who continue to receive the legacy benefits (which UC is replacing) to be managed across to UC.

The Department for Communities has published an Equality Impact Assessment (EQIA) Final Report on proposals to amend legislation to help tackle Anti-Social Behaviour in Housing Outcome Report.

Personal Independence Payment (PIP) was introduced in Northern Ireland in June 2016, and replaced Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people aged between 16 and 64 years old. PIP and DLA cannot be claimed at the...

The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per...

The Benefits Statistics Summary is released quarterly in the last week of February, May, August and November.

Statistics on knowledge of Sign Language: findings from the 2023/24 Continuous Household Survey.

This document presents the findings from the consultation on the Department for Communities’ proposed Budget 2024-25 allocations. The public consultation period on the Department's Budget 2024-25 allocations closed on 3 September 2024.

A study on market failure in the heritage sector in Northern Ireland. This study includes four reports: a literature review, survey of listed building owners, survey of scheduled monument owners, and a market failure analysis...