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Friend need help with benefits she will get - Baby due in Nov
My friend is having a baby in Nov. She currently is working full time and has a good salary - but she is living on her own and going to be a single mother. She would like to have some idea of what she will be entitled to when the baby is born - She is planning on having 6 months off and then returning to work fulltime. she…
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Playgroup funding for a 2 year old
My daughter shall be turning 2 very soon. Weve been attending mums and tots groups and she loves them. The person who runs then also runs a playgroup and when daughters 2 she could go for 2 afternoons a week. Child tax credits mucked our payments up so were only getting a tiny amount from them so money is really tight. I…
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Tax Credit Campaign
For the 2 million people affected by the economic distaster which is Mr Browns Tax Credits and for all tax payers who are disgusted at the reports and the mismanagement of revenue please log on to https://www.taxdiscredit.co.uk. I am a single parent with two young children who was stung by claims of £10,000 debt for tax…
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advice needed on housing
hi every one i have just split up with my ex partner whom i have 18 month old daughter shes staying with partner i am now living with parents im 25 in auigust and there basicly hinting i should leave and get my own place i am worried i wont be able to afford it just wondering what i am entitled to i work part time job at…
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CAB and benefits appeal tribunal...
Can someone give an overview of the CAB remit at an appeal tribunal? I have a DLA appeal hearing scheduled in just over two weeks (i only requested it last Monday) which resulted in a visit to a local cab office. During a short interview i showed the chap at CAB my paperwork,inc the submission, and gave an explanation in…
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housing Benefit/varying wages??
We have recently started to get HB as my partner changed jobs. We sent in 8 weeks wage slips and have just received an award letter for HB. They have averaged out my partners earnings over the 8 weeks but on 2 of the weeks he had less wages due to time off so at the moment there is roughly 20.00 difference between what he…
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repayment of tax credits
Have i got this right, that if an over payment is made , that if it their fault, ie a computer error, do you not have to repay the amount? They have overpaid me £38, not a large sum, but i am damned if i should pick up the bill for their incompetance. thanks
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Tax Credit Advice - Maternity pay
Hi, My wife and I are expecting our first child in October 06. Both of us work, however because my wife started a new job, just as she found out she was preganant, we are not sure what we are entitled to.. I believe at the moment she can only claim £106 statutory maternity pay per week. I was wondering what tax credits…
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Housing benefit query
Ive got a query regarding Housing Benefit,i am in the process of buying a house that i will not be living in full time due to my job and i want to let my mother move in who is currently in a council house recieving housing benefit,the query is can my mother move in and still recieve housing benefit and pay this to me as…
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DWP have offered me a formal caution
Hi everyone this is my first post so please bare with me. Until recently i was an unemployed single dad bringing up my young son on my own. On the 15/03/06 i started full time work and on the 18/03/06 my Girlfriend moved in with me and my son in our rented council house. This was something we had planned to do as soon as i…
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Need help re Income Support
A freind of mine has payments taken directly from her income support- think thye are for water arrears She received a letter this morning saying that the payments to the company have been stopped from 13th June as she is no longer receiving income support. Now this is the first she has heard of this- her circumstances have…
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£80 compensation are they having a laugh?
Hi I have been writing and writing and writing to tax credits regarding a situation they made in sept 2004. They basically stopped my tax credits until april 2005. I had interim payments made but these were sporadic and probably only covered two months and not the full amount, i was left to strunglle with a one year old…
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At Long Last - Middle rate care
Hi All I'm hoping some expert out there can give me some advice in relation to Carer's Allowance. I applied for and received with the help of a brilliant Welfare Rights Worker middle rate care and low rate mobility which I am more than thankful for. I have a tennant (now friend) who lives with me under the rent to room…
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Home visit regarding housing benefit
Hello, I have received a letter informing me that the Visiting Office from the Housing Benefit will be coming to see at home next week and am unsure why. I have been at tmy current address for 3-4 months (sharing with one other) and have been awarded a small amount of HB since then (only about 1/3 of my rent) but as far as…
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looking after an elderly - any tax benefits?
Although I was born in Asia I came here in the 80s and am a British Citizen now. My elderly mother (in her 70s) has no relatives back home and I’ve sponsored here to come and live with me. Obviously she has no means of income (doesn’t claim any state pension) and I provide everything. Someone said to me that you can make a…
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URGENT ADVICE RE Tax Credits Fraud
Hi my father in law got a letter several weeks ago from the inland revenue saying that he had been the victim of an attempted identity theft, someone had tried to claim tax credits using his national insurance number. How they got this I have no idea as he uses cash all the time, doesn't have any credit cards, loans or…
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Job Hunting for the first time in my life - Help
OK - at the ripe old age of 47 I find myself needing to change jobs The last time I actually went out & found a job was about 25 years ago, my jobs since then (all 2 of them) were word of mouth sort of introductions so I'm rusty to say the least. I was thinking that a good plan of attack would be to firstly get a good CV…
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Help me write a cover letter
I am applying for a Job at PC World I have to write a cover letter to go with my application form, I havent been out of work for years and I am a little rusty. Can anyone help me write, here is what I have so far:
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Massive Housemate Problem - council tax/electricity/gas
Moved into a shared apartment with 4 others and the council tax/electricity/gas bills have come through. 1 person wont pay for their share of the bills. The landlord is useless because he says "its not" his problem and wont even kick this certain indivdual out because he pays the rent. The indivdual buys drugs but cant…
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Is this allowed
If you are a director of a start up company are you allowed to claim benifits if the company only has say 3,000 pounds start up funds directorship is not strictly an employment but an office Is this classed as volantary work? anyone know?
