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Salary Sacrifice and effects on Tax Credits
If I earn say £10,000 in a tax year and decide to sacrifice £2,000 into a company pension, would my tax credits be based on my salary of £8,000 or my notional salary of £10,000? If it's my salary after sacrifice is there anywhere I can find out the limits or formulas they use to calculate tax credits? Then I can work out…
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community care grant?
hi all need a bit of advice, do you think i would be able to get a grant for a new tumble dryer as mine blew up this morning .i cant afford to buy one or get a loan that has 2 be paid back . im on income support and was wondering if they are likly to help me? thanks
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housing & council tax benefit help wanted please.........
Hi, I'm a lurker and reader on most boards and everyones really helpful :T and I could really do with some advice from those in the know please, my story goes something like this....... ... I suffer with reactive arthritis, it comes and goes every few years, it flared up in september last year and is still giving me…
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Broken Leg what can I claim?
Just trying to short cut thru government bureaucracy and see if anyone can put me on the right track. Broke my leg at work (long story but not my employers fault or negligence) just before Xmas. Have claimed statutory sick pay off my employer but was wondering is there anything else I can claim. Our circumstances are…
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Received Giro- but unsure of which post office to cash it
Samoeone I know has recently apploed for JSA. He received a giro yesterday and went to his local post office to cash it- but they said that it wasnt for there- nd they didnt know where the post office was that the code on the giro was for Is there anyway of finding this out?
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Mum full time carer to my dad - what can she claim?
My dad is very ill and is described as being under palliative care. He has just come out of hospital and is now back at home. My mum is now finding it increasingly harder to care for him and has looked into employing carers to help her wash, change his sheets etc. Social care came around yesterday, with lists of carers…
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working/child tax credit childcare element??
Hi, i'm sure this has probably been answered before but i can't find it anywhere. I'm currently filling in my claim form for tax credits and was wondering how much (or how little as the case may be!) you can earn as a household to recieve help towards the cost of childcare. I've a sneaking suspicion that we will earn too…
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OMG how do i pay this overpayment back from income support
Today i just got a letter from DWP that i have been paid to much income support in error, of £410.20. They stated "This is because of your child benifit ending or reducing". I thought they were in liason with CBA and would have known it had stopped so therefor done whatever they needed to accordingly. I could see the money…
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Child Tax Credits? My husband isn't English but I am?
Iwonder of anyone can help me. I am trying to find out if my husband and I will be entitled to child tax credits. I am English and he is from New Zealand. We have applied for a spousal visa which we are still waiting for but assuming we get it, would we be able to claim? I've looked on the website but it seems to say we…
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Bit of benefits advice/could be jobseekers advice
I am convinced I am about to be made redundant. I have been with the company for 18 months. The criteria for being made redundant, we have been told, is "length of service and other criteria". I am one of the last in, so it doesn't bode well on that front. Today, the manger individually asked each of the secretaries to…
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Question re: Childtax credit
Hi there, Just a quick question regarding childtax credits and working tax credits. My SIL has spilt up with her husband of 21 yrs and is on a low income. She is now receiving full credits but her husband is still paying all the mortgage and bills + plus other bits. She is a very honest person and when I asked her if she…
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No Tax Taken Off!
Hi, I have started a new job quite recently. For the past 3 months amazingly I havent paid a penny in tax my payslip shows only N.I contributions being taken off. My tax code is 522L I have been on this code for a while 2+ years. I have called the tax office to make sure I am on the right tax code they have told me yeah…
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Income support overpayment
Hi i have recieved a letter from IS stating that i owe them £549.36 as overpayment was made to me after my son started Uni.I had informed them earlier last year about my son stating he was going to uni in September and as i had not heard from them i assumed they would pay my IS untill he recieved his first grant on…
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Back dated sick pay
My OH hasn't been well enough to work for quite a while now but hasn't claimed anything. He can no longer afford to go on like this but still isn't up to working. He has seen his GP, ooh maybe once every month since September so the GP will be aware of his "under-the-weatherness". Anyway he's got another appt to see his…
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Incapacity question part 2
Good morning all. I asked a question when I registered here and have had some help. However things are now progressing and I need the benefit of your advice. I have finally been given medical [ill health] retirement from my job [30 years] and a lump sum pay out of £18k. We have paid of all our committments [see signature]…
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tax credits - new partner
hi, im currently a single parent and claiming child tax + working tax credit. i have met someone who claims incapacity benefit . if we moved in together and claimed as a couple would my partner lose incapacity benefit and would my money be affected quite abit ? help please .
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Complete benefits help please!
Hi all, mine is a long one! Hubby was self employed 2 years ago but due to an accident he now has a caliper-then another accident rendered his other leg in pot and very weak! I have undergone spinal surgery last year which has rendered me unable to work now but have been getting a monthly wage from my employers which has…
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DLA and Carers Allowance
Hi everyone My son has been on middle rate care DLA for the past 3 years. I had to reapply and am delighted to learn that he has been awarded the same but for the next five years (he has allergies and carries an epipen and has very bad eczema). Anyway, my question is: Do I have to reapply for carers allowance again or does…
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EntitledTo.com Question
A friend of mine has just said they're applying for working tax credits and I directed them at EntitledTo.com Looking through, it doesn't seem to have any selection for "I am in a houseshare" Why is that? This is an important factor of whether you get anything.
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Attendance Allowance
Query on behalf of my mother's partner. My mother died two years plus ago. He has colon cancer, spread to the liver. Lives alone. Phoned for forms. Is it applicable to tick 'terminal' box? I am his only local support. Palliative care... does it equal a tick in the box? I would like to make time remaining to be devoid of…
