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Benefits advice please
Hi i have recently given up work due to ill health i have applied for employment and support benefit(NEW NAME FOR INCAPACITY) can i still claim my child tax credits i know i'm no longer entitled to working tax credit i support my 17 year old son have recently stopped getting child benefit. At present my son is unemployed…
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Please help
Hi, Ihad a baby 10 weeks ago and was looking to return to work when he was 6 months. I have been looking into child care and both my partner and myself have decvided we would be better off if i stay at home to look after him. I was therefore wondering if anybody knows what benefits, if any, i would be able to claim if i…
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Over the phone advice?
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Back to work and WTC
Some help please... Got a job paying 6.50hrs PT 24hrs a week all good you say but the issue is I would be better of on benifts then taking this job which I really do want to. I will explain. I been on IB JSA for 6mths also CTC and CT we get about £280 a week in total. Last tax year 2008-2009 my earnings were £35,000 so yes…
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Benefits - Please Help!
Hi. I work full time and earn £15050.00 per year. Me and my partner have 2 young children aged 3 and 1. We are recieving child benefit, working tax and child tax credit. My partner has been unable to work over the last 5years. Firstly due to us sadly loosing our first daughter when she was just 7 weeks old, and not because…
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to work or not to work - help!
can anyone help...? single parent, 3 kids under 16, currently working 30+ hours per week (not great pay), claiming WTC, CTC, and receiving child maintenance - not keeping head above water financially plus running myself ragged to the point of illness - really need to find out how i would stand financially if i worked much…
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DLA - Rules governing visiting DWP's GP?
I wonder if someone can answer a question regarding the rules governing visiting GPs employed by the DWP? My friend had been receiving DLA for eleven years (mobility and care) and was up for review recently when one of the DWP's GPs visited her. Subsequently she has had all her benefits stopped as the visiting GP considers…
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12 weeks pregnant, work for an agency
Hi all. Havent been on here for such a long time.. Anyway, im 12 weeks pregnant now, and currently work for an agency. (in a school) I have been working for them for over 35 weeks. Initially i was going to leave in june 2010 as i am currently studying towards my MCSE, but found out im pregnant in the 6 weeks hols. ill be…
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CT question
Single mother & 2 kids used to live in Bexley council then moved into Lewisham council into boyfriend + familys house but paid nothing toward place. She was then offered a flat back in Bexley council and according to her had been waiting for 6 years (a lie as she owed council tax to Bexley council). Anyway for CT she was…
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DWP 0845 what about an 0800 number!!!!!
Does anyone have a phone number for DWP instead of the 0845 377 6001 number? They clearly know that the customers ringing them are unemployed and yet there is no 0800 number?? I am wracking up my phone bill, chasing documents, making sure they have received them, etc... I have checked Martins wonderful saynoto0845 site,…
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Housing & council tax benefit - fraud
Hi folks I was suggested to come on here by someone I know to ask of your oppinions. I was interviewed a couple of months ago as the benefit dept. felt i had commitied a fraudulant claim. the back ground: I started uni last year at the end of sept - previous to this my husband and i were claiming income sup, full housing…
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Does It Matter What The Law Says? (Income Support)
I have just received a letter from Income Support which reads 'How much the law says you need to live on = £51.45' and at the end of the letter it reads 'you will get £40.70 a week' does this mean they are blatantly breaking the law? or does this mean the law does not apply to them? The amount 'the law says' is a pittance…
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JSA help.
Hiya guys, Basically i was signing on, and working at Sports Direct - but i wasn't getting even part-time hours - at the most i was getting 3 hours a week, so was finding it hard to justify staying there and had to quit. I signed on, on the Monday just gone as normal (21st Sept). Told them that the only change in…
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Working Tax Credit
Just wondering if anyone can help? If someone is claiming WTC and then finishes work and ends up getting there P45 and cant work for the forseeable future can they still claim the WTC for the time until its due for renewal or do they have to let the WTC know and claim other benefits? Thanks
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Proving I am single
After finally looking as though I am getting somewhere re JSA and LHA, but now it has been suggested there might be a problem as my landlord and I are old friends and may be assumed to be partners. We are not. I was a nun until 3weeks ago and hope to go back. Aside from that, I just don't fancy him! So how can I truely…
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Tax Credits and Jobseekers Allowance
I am on maternity leave until November and am not going back to my job as I worked away and I won't be able to do this with the baby. My partner earns £18,000 a year. I am going to look for a part time job but until I find one will claim jobseekers. Will this affect our tax credits?
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DWP,Carers allowance over payment ?
Hi all. Just found this site whilst googling. I have been on income support since 2005 because of long term illness's. My wife recently had a tumour removed with a full Hystorectomy.We could do with out the pressure of the below, however it has to be dealt with. My wife was recieving carers allowance for our son 2005-06…
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DWP,Carers allowance over payment ?
Hi all. Just found this site whilst googling. I have been on income support since 2005 because of long term illness's. My wife was recieving carers allowance for our son 2005-06 and was stopped late 2006, we have received a letter from DWP saying from 2006 -2008 we were overpayed for our son CA 2006-2008. The letter reads;…
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Low income help with dental, prescriptions, eye tests and/ or glasses?
Please bear with me, I don't know the lingo, all the abbreviations and such are gobbledegook to me. I have done searches here and on the NHS site for the HC1 form and am still clueless and don't think that's the right avenue anymore anyway! What I'm trying to find out is: Over 50 Get some working tax credits (but no…
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Self employed and tax credit drop in income
Please can anyone advise on what I should do about my sudden loss of self employed income with regard to tax credit. I am currently employed three days a week and also have self employed income from some freelance work I do meaning that I work full time. I have suddenly lost £600 worth of monthly income (not profit but…
