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Can someone please offer some urgent advice?
hi, can anyone help with this? i am so stressed and upset and dont know what to do. my esa has been stopped as i did not answer the door to the person from atos coming to my house to conduct a medical assessment. stupid i iknow, but i have terrible panic attacks and am bipolar and just could not bring myself to let them…
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Healthy Start
Does anyone know which year your income needs to be below £16,040 to be eligible for healthy start milk vouchers? Healthy start application form was just sent to me to fill out by child tax credits. In last tax year I earned below the threshold In last year (ie ending today) I earned well below the threshold In this tax…
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ESA and disability help
Hi I am in receipt of disability benefits and Employment Support benefit but im confused on what else I am entitled too. I thought I got free prescriptions but im not sure now, I have a Pre payment card at the moment, any helpful links. The ESA info is so sketchy at the moment, Thanks
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Grants Available
Hi Really sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question. I receive Incapacity Benefit which is topped up with Income Support. I have tried ringing the benefit people to ask this question to but keep being told there is no such help available. So I would like to ask if anyone knows of a grant or even assistance…
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Should I quit my job? HB related.
Ok, here is the situation. I currently have 4 jobs; one consistent P/T office job, one call centre job, and 2 which are just small ventures of my own (managing a band etc - don't see any ££ from them!). The p/t office job is incredibly stressful, its making me quite ill because I'm constantly worrying about it. They want…
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Son diagnosed with Osgood-Schlatter Disease
He is 11 years old and has been suffering knee trouble for some time, to the point of being in excruciating pain at all times, and unable to walk properly. GP examined him a few weeks ago - and diagnosed him with something called 'Osgood-Schlatter Disease' Its a condition that could be with him until adulthood or until he…
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about to be made redundant
im about to be made redundant at 61 with redundancy payments and savings ill have about £60000 and will be able to draw my private pension early will i be able to claim jobseekers allowance
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Carers allowance question
Hiya, Could someone please advise I was under the impression that if awarded dla, then an application for carers allowance would be backdated till the date of application for dla? The reason I ask is it now appears that this is only upto 3 months the person I am enquiring for made the application for dla November 2008 and…
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What can they claim
My son and his girlfriend have just moved in together in a council house. Neither currently work and he is on jobseekers allowance. Yesterday she gave birth to a baby boy. Any advice i can pass on to them as regards what they can now claim as a family. Any advise appreciated.
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On JSA, Partner sick, can Carers Allowance be claimed instead?
Hi I'm writing this for my neighbour. Basically my neighbours parter has been diagnosed with the cancer. My neighbour claims Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit, and Jobseekers Allowance. They also claim Child Tax Credit for 1 child. What with the stress of whats going on at the moment, I'm just checking if he can claim…
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SMP and two jobs ???
Hope somebody can advise me, i am 18 weeks pregnant and work two jobs. I am confused :confused: with what payments i get, will i get SMP from both jobs or only one. Please help.
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JSA advice
Hi there, I thought I would ask you guys for some advice on my situation. I'm a single parent of two (12 and 15) younger child is statemented and the older one is on a p/t timetable (2 hours per day) and I was recently put on JSA. I don't get any carers allowance (never applied as I don't think I'd qualify) or DLA (as…
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National Insurance Number Question
Hi, just wondering if anyone knew this. My cousin has just applied for an NI number they've given her an appontment in Liverpool miles away from wheres shes staying. Can you move the location of the appointment like to manchester? Its the ID checking appointment which was made at a local jobcentre somewhere in Warrington.…
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grants for double glazing
I've heard that there may be grants available to help homeowners to buy double glazing for their homes. I dont receive benefits other than child tax allowance, but I still cant afford to double glaze my home. Someone told me that there may be a grant available soon. Does anyone know anything about this. Thankyou.:confused:
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DLA, Local Housing Assist and Income Support Change of Circumstance
Hi, I would be very grateful if anyone could help with this, my sister lives next door to me and she gets Local housing allowance (i think thats the new name for housing benefit) Income support and Disability Living allowance. She currently lives on her own, but is hoping that soon her boyfriend will move in with her. I am…
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Problems with benefits and need advice please
Hi all, my first time posting here and i hope you can help. My partner and I moved in together in June as she was 4 months pregnant and her parents let us have their house (we are paying them rent to cover their mortgage and they've bought a new house). I was working up until January when i was let go due to the economic…
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Mortgage benefits SMI help
Im working part time about £100 per week or less,claiming jsa at the moment,only just started the job.I have interest only mortgage,to get the benefits i have to wait 13weeks for the SMI to go through.What happens in this period?as the mortgage wont be paid until the claim goes through.Do they back date it or ???Any help…
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Benefits and an ex partner
Long winded so please bear with me, I have always worked full time, I am a single parent of a children 6 & 12, I have been off sick for the last 7 months, first with stress and severe depression and now with mild cardiac failure and very high blood pressure, along with the stress & depression, until now I have coped on my…
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Widows Pension and going back to work
Hi all Im after some advise for my Mom, basically she was widowed in 1999 (age 37) and with 3 young children. She was entitled to widows pension and is still on this benefit. About 5 yrs ago my Mom found work and worked for a few years but had to give up due to illness/childcare and subsequently declared bankrupt. While…
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JSA Entitlement
Hi can anyone give me sone advice please? I resigned from my job two days ago because it had become far too stressful due to the sheer amount of work and I was worried about the effect it was having on my health, I also had to travel a fair way twice a day on unreliable public transport which considerably increased the…
