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How to report someone for benefit fraud? - UPDATE
What is the best way to report someone for benefit fraud? A "single" mum is living with someone claiming income support and housing benefit. He works full time. How do I report her and how long will it take for action to be taken? *UPDATE* Ok an update on this situation. The single mum in question is now 4 months pregnant…
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Working out SMP & Tax Credits
I am currently 10 weeks pregnant. I am due to start maternity leave in Jan 2010. I have phoned tax credits to try and get an estimate of what I may be entitled to come SMP time. I was confused before I made the call and the guy has helped confuse me even more. I don’t have any confidence in them and the poor guy didn't…
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Does Claiming JSA affect Tax Credits
I wonder if someone could help me please. I am currently a full-time PGDE student. The course has now stopped for the Summer, however I need to return end August to complete a 6 week placement. Thereafter I will be eligible for supply work. I have a husband who works full-time [salary £28000] and 3 children: one of which…
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Working out Nursery Fees
Hi, i made a mistake and havent been taking into account that my son got 12.5 hours free per week since he was 3. I had my weekly childcare cost down as £201 as the monthly fee was £873 (873x12 divided by 52) He was 3 in 2007 so the awards that are incorrect are 07-08 and 08-09. I claimed childcare from 21/08/07-05/04/08…
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moving and housing benefit
I'm about to move from a housing association property to a private rental with my new tenancy starting on June 29th. I'm already on full housing benefit and know that changing to the new address wont be a problem. Having spoken to my housing offficer (at housing assoc) she has told me she thinks there are certain…
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housing benefit ,what is the waiting time??
hi i applied for hb and help with c tax back in may and took all remaining info last week ,does anyone know if you can track progress on line or how long it will be before i hear anything,thaks abi
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tax creds aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hi iwonder if any1 can help me. ive recieved my tax cred award this morning and it states your income details for 09 to 2010. they have estimated me to earn 4500 although i do not work. should i ring them or will it not make much difference to my award anyway
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PhD - declare stipend/bursary for tax credits?
My partner and I wish to claim tax credits but are finding the process laboriously complicated. Please can anyone who has done this while completing a PhD give some advice?! She works 16-17 hrs a week (£8000/yr) and has one child aged 8. I am her partner and work approx 6 hrs/wk and get approx £12000/yr stipend/bursary…
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Son leaving college..benefit help req'd plz
Morning all :) Just thought I would enquire here if anybody can help me out... My son (18) is due to finish his 2nd year of a levels in 2 days time, he currently lives at home with me still, I gather (of the top of my head) I need to advise the following ppl of this fact and will therefore lose these benefits..child…
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Advice please
I just checked the benefit calculator just out of curiosity expecting it to say I wasn't entitled to anything:confused: But instead I've found out I am entitled to tax credits of £540 plus a year for my 18 year old son who is in full time education:eek: When he left school the tax credits stopped so I just presumed it was…
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Self Employed...Entitled To Anything?
Hello :) Not sure this is the right section to be posting in but i'm in a bit of a worry mood. I'm currently earning £15 a week total from a small cafe job I do on a monday (they can't give me any more hours), tuesday to saturday I run my own shop in my local village and currently cover rent and very little more so haven't…
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Backdating LHA
Hi there. My daughter was born at the end of April this year 7 weeks early. Due to me being in hospital myself for a few weeks we couldn't register the birth until I came out. We contacted our local council to update our claim and inform them of the birth. I have 2 other children 1 boy and 1 girl who currently share a…
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Being over paid on housing benifit please help re crisis loan
Hi Im being paid more than I sould for housing benifit which is great (their mistake) im just putting the extra cash aside just incase they realise :) The problem is Im in a bit of financial difficulty and im behind on my rent so I need to apply for a crisis loan but I dont want to appy for the crisis loan then have them…
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ESA Help Needed???
Hello Everyone I have just started claiming ESA recently and my partner was on Contributions based JSA, anyway his 6 month period was coming to a end and he was told he will need to go to the jobcentre. So we both went down and they basically turned around to him and said have you got a partner and he said yes, she asked…
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15.5 hours, working tax credit advice?
I have been offered a job working 15.5 hours per week, i currently work 19.5. My husband works 37.5 hours earning £16,500 p/a. Would we be eligable to claim any benefits or working tax credits? Any advice would be grateful!
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buying a house is easy compared to dealing with those monkeys at the job centre...
i'm going into formal complaint mode now with the job centre waiting for money...now nearly 2 months.....still processing. every person i talk to is just wrong every person can';t give me correct information who runs the system....it's terrible
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Resignation due to ill health and benefits
Hi everyone firstly I'll apologise if this has been asked before.. i did a quick search of the forum but couldn't find anything within the first 10 pages or so ;) I suffer from endometriosis and have been off work on off for years due to it.. i even left the army after 9 years as i found it too hard to work in that…
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DLA Help
Please can anyone advise me, my oh is on higher rate mobiltity and low rate care. he has severe spinal problems and is needing more help from me than before he was awarded the above. he has just come out of hospital again this is 2nd time in 9months, i know we should be grateful for what we have got but xtra help would be…
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Housing benefit whilst on PT course
I have been unemployed and on JSA + housing benefit for almost a year and feel that in this current job market the best thing for me to do would be to go back to college. I have applied for two access's courses at my local colleges and am waiting for my interview date. Should i be successful i will be stopping my JSA and…
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IB Tribunal Appeals - how long?
had my IB (which I have been claiming since 2003) stopped in June 2008 due to an incorrect medical (medical examiner input an untrue account of my illness) consequently I have been without any payment since then, put in an appeal in July 2008 (as soon as I found out my money had been stopped) and I am still waiting for the…
