Publications

All instances of actual and suspected Tenancy Fraud should be recorded in a register and reported to the Department’s Social Housing Policy Branch via email using the form TF1 (Initial Notification of Tenancy Frauds to...

The Energy Rating of Housing in Northern Ireland is an annual report which uses data from Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) to provide information on: energy rating, carbon dioxide emissions and heating fuel types for dwellings...

Support to stimulate heritage research work in Northern Ireland by funding initiatives that aim to carry out and/or share the results of research into the historic environment.Support aimed at stimulating heritage projects that want to...

Historic Environment Division has created this suite of guidance documents for practitioners of archaeology in Northern Ireland in partnership with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI) and National Museums...

The Department for Communities held a number of workshops from April 2024 to June 2024 to gather views on fuel poverty. The workshops focused on topics eligibility, collaboration and partnership and understanding and framing. Here...

Partnership Agreement between the Department for Communities and National Museums NI. The Department for Communities is the sponsor Department for National Museums NI. The Partnership Agreement explains the overall governance framework within which National Museums...

The Department for Work and Pensions has published guidance to help pension fund trustees and managers prepare an annualised version of the accrued pot value for members with certain money purchase benefits. This Annualised accrued...

Part 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 2021 provided the legislative framework to introduce collective money purchase pension schemes to Great Britain. Part 2 provided corresponding legislation for Northern Ireland.

The purpose of this Order is to revoke ten of The Pensions Regulator’s (the Regulator) existing codes of practice (the old codes). It also revokes three earlier versions of codes 5,6, and 7 which were...

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 guidance provides a brief history and background to explain the part played by historic windows, how they are significant, how they can be retained, and, where necessary, how they can be best upgraded to...

Universal Credit has developed a range of Move to Universal Credit stakeholder products to specifically help organisations to support households who are required to move to Universal Credit.

The Department made Regulations to implement the McCloud Remedy on 28 September 2023 and these Regulations are titled the Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023 (SR. 2023 No. 149). A...

The Northern Ireland Football Fund (TNIFF) is intended to modernise the physical infrastructure used by local clubs to play the game of football at senior and grassroots level in Northern Ireland. It is also expected...

This Bill will allow the Child Maintenance Service (CMS) to introduce new administrative liability orders, to replace the outdated court-based liability order process, to substantially speed up the time it takes for the CMS to...

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 2024.

The Family Resources Survey for Northern Ireland 2022-23 was released on 30 May 2024. The proposed date of next publication will be Summer 2025.

In Summer 2022 Analytics Division commenced a review of the Housing Statistics publications. The below document details the outcomes from this review and the changes implemented to the Northern Ireland Housing Report, the Northern Ireland...

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...

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...