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Its about helping people get their entitlement! Not about benefits policy!
Its about helping people get their entitlement! Not about benefits policy! This board is here for help and support for those on or looking to claim benefits, not for judgement. Its ONLY focus is helping people with their money. It's here to help people find out what they are entitled to under the current system, and to…
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*USEFUL LINKS*
MoneySavingExpert insert: Huge thanks to Fran for compiling this list some time ago. The MSE article and forum links are up to date but links to other sites may be broken. Back to Fran's original post: ---- The following links may prove useful in looking for information about Benefits and Jobseeking. MSE Attendance…
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Removal of some car Brands in the Motability scheme
I just came across this article on the BBC. The Government has been leaning on Motability to push British car manufacturing, as a result BMW, Audi, Lexus, Alfa Romeo and Mercedes, have all been removed from Motability scheme with immediate effect. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9znkxq47xo
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Universal credit question
Hi there I was on ESA WRAG before being migrated to Universal Credit. I get £143.73 transitional element and get £387.91 per month universal credit payment, and receive 360.97 carers allowance every 4 weeks. I randomly checked two benefits calculators. On Turn2Us benefits it says i should be getting £1016.16 per month…
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Warm Home Discount but pay a service charge - do I quality?
As above, I received the letter and am wondering if I qualify even though I pay for my heating via a Service Change to my HA? I know the Park Home renters get it, but would I?
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Warm Home Discount Broader Group, Scotland. Octopus Energy's own criteria.
I have applied under Octopus Energy's own criteria - no means tested benefit requirement: Disability benefit and, specified by Octopus, low income. Nothing to do with DWP means tested benefit or Core Group requirement. It is The Broader Group Scotland. On application I also submitted proof/documents of DLA (care and…
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Strange Pension Credit payment
We've received a pension credit payment today. This is usually paid fortnightly and was received as normal last Thursday - just four days ago. Equally as strange it was for exactly £20 less than usual. If it had been for the usual amount I'd have put it down to a computer glitch and expected it to be cancelled out by…
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Pension savings credit and earnings
When I became eligible for pension savings credit, I declared all of my income including anything I earned through completing surveys. My accounts had to be checked. I do a few studies on Prolific Academic and it does pay well for the time spent. I was just wondering, when I calculate my earnings, should I take into…
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Can you do this Social Test for me please?
I tried the Broadband section but nobody there seems to be on benefits. What I am after is for someone who had bought the BT Social Tariff 35mb £16 a month broadband to carry out the tests on the links below and copy paste back the results to this thread. I am particularly interested in the Latency figure reported. Generic…
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Carer's Allowance: 10,000s set to have outrageous overpayment debts wiped
Tens of thousands of unpaid carers could have debts built up in Carer's Allowance overpayments wiped or reduced following a new review. Separate action has also been promised to address the benefit's earnings cliff-edge. MoneySavingExpert.com (MSE) gave evidence to the review, with its founder Martin Lewis previously…
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UC denied due to savings for upcoming tax bill. Advice?
Help. I seem to have fallen into a bit of a gap. Last year I got a big share payout and sold my shares to pay for a deposit on my house. This generated a large Capital Gain Tax bill that is due to be paid in January 2026. Following advice I put £20k into an ISA and £10k into Premium Bonds which will cover the bill when…
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Carers element denied uc
My son has been having to help me with my disabled daughter for several months now. He just claimed the carers element immediately kicked out as I am claiming carers it's an underlying entitlement as I am now over pension age. Is this right as you don't have to claim carers to get the UC care element. I don't get anything…
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Capability for Work Form - Advice Needed
My husband suffered with severe depression for several years from 2019. He worked hard on himself and was able to get back on track with just the odd temporary crash every now and again due to outside pressures or circumstances. A year ago he lost his job and was coping well but is over 50 and finding it hard to get a job,…
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Pension Credit and disregards.
I’ve received a letter this morning from the DWP’s Pension Service B saying they need to check the information they have wrt pension credit is correct on September 29th. It says not to contact them as they will contact me by phone or letter “in the near future.” My first query is whether they will do this before September…
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UC compliance interview Husband did not disclose savings and he’s now been found out
Please help me .I am broken .Married with a joint Uc claim and I didn’t know husband had savings over 16k an investment with the bank . i logged into the Uc account to see he had been invvited for a compliance interview and that’s when he disclosed to me he had savings . i am dealing with the betrayal and also worried…
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Universal Credit Finances Interview
Hi everyone, Today my brother had a meeting with DWP where they check his finances for any hidden savings etc. He isn't well mentally and my mum was there as his appointee to answer all the questions (she is his carer). For reference my brother barely speaks at times. My mum was answering the questions so she has a…
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Migration from ESA to UC AGAIN
My Daughter was on income related ESA and I have now had a letter saying she is moving to new style Contribution based ESA. Is this normal she's not worked a day in her life She was in support group ESA and now confirmed will. Limited capability to work on UC I have seen that UC take every penny you get from the ESA is…
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Chasing up a Right of Access Request
I submitted a Right of Access request (previously known as a Subject Access Request) to the DWP on 30 September 2025. On 7 October 2025 I received an acknowledgement of the request (by text) with a message that "We will reply within one month. You do not need to contact us". To date I haven't heard back from them. It is…
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WFA (Winter Fuel Allowance) overpaid
I haven't found a recent thread about this so here goes. DH and are both in receipt of state pension, under 80, same address. So by my reckoning we're entitled to £200 WFA between us. My WFA of £200 arrived safely, I was expecting it as I'd had a letter. I'm older than him, so I started receiving it a year before him, and…
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Turning a sideline into self employment and claiming free childcare for working parents
I am currently employed,
and have also been running a business as a sideline for the last two years. I would like to know, if I were to leave
my employment and become self employed, running my current sideline business as my only
source of income, would I qualify for the ‘start up period’ of 12 months free
childcare for…
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Universal Credit First-Time Claimant - Advice Needed
Hello. I have recently been made redundant and am signing up to Universal Credit for the first time. I have a couple of things in the process which I am unsure about and need to query - any advice appreciated, many thanks in advance. ** I rent a single room in a shared house. For the question “How many bedrooms are listed…
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Migrating from ESA to UC after receiving backpayment
Hi all, I received a £16K SDP backpayment in 2021, which remains unspent (I have been saving that money for a rainy day). I now have around £15K in my bank account, and am trying to go through the online ESA to UC migration process after receiving a migration notice yesterday. I am really stuck at this question: "How much…
