1934 publications
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The Welfare Supplementary Payment (Extension) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 - screening
The Department for Communities currently administers a number of Executive approved welfare mitigation schemes, which are designed to alleviate the financial impact arising from specific changes to the social security system, introduced in response to...
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The Universal Credit (Welfare Supplementary Payment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 - screening
The Department for Communities currently administers a number of Executive approved welfare mitigation schemes, which are designed to alleviate the financial impact arising from specific changes to the social security system, introduced in response to...
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The Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Housing Costs (Executive Determinations) (Modification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (‘the Statutory Rule’) - screening
Local Housing Allowance (LHA) is used to calculate Housing Benefit and Universal Credit housing element awards, based on the size of a household and location of a property. LHA, which has applied to tenants in...
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The Universal Credit (Welfare Supplementary Payment) (Social Sector Size Criteria) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 - screening
The Department for Communities currently administers a number of Executive approved welfare mitigation schemes, which are designed to alleviate the financial impact arising from specific changes to the social security system, introduced in response to...
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Personal Independence Payment Statistics - November 2024
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...
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Benefits Statistics Summary Publication (Accredited Official Statistics) - November 2024
The Benefits Statistics Summary is released quarterly in the last week of February, May, August and November.
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Benefit Cap Statistics - November 2024
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...
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Ministerial letter of expectations 2025-26 – Arts Council NI
The letter of expectations sets out Ministerial priorities for 2025-26 to ensure strategic alignment is achieved between the aims and objectives of the Department for Communities and the work of the Arts Council for 2025-26...
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Circular LG 05/2025 - Scheme of Emergency Financial Assistance (SEFA) to District Councils - Flooding 21 February 2025 - 20 March 2025
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...
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Circular LG 14/2024 - Terms and conditions for the payment of civil contingencies grant 2024/25 (Q’s 1 and 2 2024/25)
Local Government Circular LG 14/24 - Terms and conditions for the payment of civil contingencies grant 2024/25 (Q’s 1and2 2024/25). Article 29 (1) of the Local Government (NI) Order 2005 confers powers on district councils...
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Changes to Statutory Sick Pay as proposed in the Employment Rights Bill - screening
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) is the minimum an employer must pay an eligible employee if they are unable to work due to illness or injury. To be eligible an employee must have average weekly earnings...
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Circular LG 04/2025 – Rate Statistics
Local Government Circular LG 04/2025 – District Council (Northern Ireland) Rate Statistics 2025/2026
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Report of the Independent Review of the Liquor Licensing system in Northern Ireland including the Surrender Principle
This review was commissioned by the Department for Communities under section 23 of the Licensing and Registration of Clubs (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) (2021). The report has been produced by the University of Stirling.
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Scheme of Delegation for the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
The Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 provided for the Department to make a Scheme of Delegation for the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland (the Commission) to permit some of the Commission's functions to be delegated...
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President of Appeal Tribunal Report on Standards of Decision Making by the Department 2021-2022
The total number of appeals registered during the year to which this report relates was 4269, of which 661 were monitored. Unfortunately, there has been a large increase in the overall level of incorrectness.
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District rates
District rates as struck by each district council for the forthcoming 2025/2026 financial year.
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Proposals to allow the NIHE and Registered Housing Associations to work better together on the investigation of Tenancy Fraud
The Department for Communities has published an Outcome Report which presents the findings from the targeted consultation on “Proposals to allow the NIHE and Registered Housing Associations to work better together on the investigation of...
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Proposals to allow the Northern Ireland Housing Executive NIHE) and the Registered Housing Associations (RHAs) to work better together on the investigation of tenancy fraud - screening
As part of the Department for Communities’ (DfC) review into social housing tenancy fraud, it is proposed that 2 new tenancy fraud legislative provisions are to be included in the Department of Finance’s (DoF), Financial...
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Advice for Decision Making Memos 2025
These memos contain advice for decision makers on Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, new style Jobseeker’s Allowance and new style Employment and Support Allowance.
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Emergency Fuel Payment Scheme - screening
To mitigate against the policy changes to the Winter Fuel Payment scheme (WFP), the Department considered several options to support those pensioners impacted by the changes. The options for an emergency fuel payment were based...