Publications

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 September 2024.

These publications include the findings from the Irish and Ulster-Scots culture and heritage modules of the 2023/24 Continuous Household Survey.

This Statutory Rule is a technical Order giving effect to a statutory requirement to specify the percentage that will be used to revalue the “protected payment” element of a new State Pension for persons who...

This Statutory Rule is a technical Order giving effect to a statutory requirement to specify the percentage that will be used to revalue the “protected payment” element of a new State Pension for persons who...

This report gives detailed information on progress of the standard of decision making within the Child Maintenance Service.

When a person changes jobs they also leave their employer’s pension scheme. An employee can ask to have their pension rights transferred to the new scheme.

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.

Universal Credit is a new payment to help support households that are out of work or are on a low income. Universal Credit was introduced in Northern Ireland on a phased geographical basis from 27...

The Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 received Royal Assent on 22 April 2016 and became law. Section 19 of the Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 sets out the requirement for employers to publish information relating...

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...

Brief Description: Project Vision: To establish Bellaghy as a hub for literary development through regeneration of the heritage and place for the benefit of the people.

The Department for Communities invites applications for the appointment of the Chair to the Historic Buildings Council.

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 Five Cs Project is a Public Realm scheme which aims to enhance several areas within Belfast city centre which have recently seen, or will soon see, significant private sector investment in surrounding buildings, but...

This go to guide provides information on Northern Ireland’s Defence Heritage Record (DHR). It covers the periods from the First World War up until the Cold War period, providing detail on the various site types...

Information about the Affordable Warmth Scheme

Names of DFC staff who had been involved in an ESA case

Residential buildings which have been notified to the Department due to unsafe cladding