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Incapacity / esa or income support or none??
I hope someone can help please. My daughter ( 21) currently lives in a private rented flat with her partner. Last year she was not well and claimed esa for quite a long time, but eventually had an assessment and they said she could not claim anymore so she had to move back home & eventually got a bar job, this was not good…
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xmas payments
has any body got any idea when child benefit and tax credits will be paid over the xmas / new year period..... thank you
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What's the maximum amount of savings I can have in order to claim JSA
Hi all, What's the maximum amount of savings I can have in order to claim contributions based JSA? I have £6000 in savings. Will I be eligable to claim? Also, if I leave my job voluntarily, will I be able to claim contributions based JSA? Thanks.
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Help plz: sick & on benefit, 2nd home rental income alowance used to assess IS level
Hi I have recently found myself unable to work due to ill health after 25 years with the same company and since my health insurance ran out I am entitled to help from benefits. The complication is that I have a 2nd home bought in the boom as an investment that is now in negative equity (so cannot sell) and I have a…
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Tax credits and HB
I have been backdated WTC & CTC this week Will this mean i will have to pay back any HB i have had prior to receiving tax credits? And i am assuming my HB will now reduce or stop now that I am receiving tax credits? TIA
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Urgent advice needed on new deal/benefits
I need a bit of advice on what to do......I have been on job seekers allowance, housing benefit and council tax benefit since february and being 20 years old i am slowly going through the new deal scheme...at the moment i am seeing my job advisor once a month too just chat about what plan of action is next and she gives me…
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Potentially homeless teenager
DD1's BF (16 years old) is a lovely lad. He's polite, gentle and generally a pleasure to be around. He was diagnosed with ADHD when he was small, back in Germany (where he is from), and took Ritalin for many years, hating how dozy it made him. He stopped taking it a couple of years ago. He has his moments of…
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Child Benefit & Child Tax Credits
Is it possible to claim Child Tax Credits without claiming tax credits? eg Mother & Father of Child separate, Can mother claim CTC and father claim CB?
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what am i entitled to
Hi all, Im abit confused about what i am entitled to. I work 20 hours a week and i get 425 per month wage My partner is on maternity leave and gets 500 per month We have one newborn child. What benifits am i entiled to and how much per month should i be gettin?
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rapid reclaim help!
Me and my partner were unemployed and claiming joint claim JSA. I then got a temporary job for 2 months my other half's claim then went to a single claim. After the work ended I reapplied for JSA as a rapid reclaim, I was told that I should get a letter confirming our claim had gone back to a joint claim within 2 weeks,…
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Redundancy, Tax credits help!
At the moment my DH works full time and I work PT. We get help in the form of Tax Credits. DH is about to be made redundant and will receive a payout of about 5K untaxed and around another 5K which includes holiday pay and 9 weeks notice (which he is not required to work) this will be taxable. My first question is when can…
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sick pay while temporarily employed
Hi I have a permanent lecturing post at college but I also lecture one evening per week which is a temporary contract. I have been off ill and I got full pay for working during the day but did not get paid for my evening lectures.even although I work for the same college. I thought temporary contracts and permanent…
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Income Support & JSA
Hi, Someone I know has a pregnant partner. He is on JSA Income-based and he has been claiming for over 6 months. As far as I know, he has to close his claim to get a joint claim on Income Support. Is my understanding correct or can his partner claim for IS without him losing his entitlement to JSA? Thanks.
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Question about claiming JSA/Courses
Im leaving my job at the end of next week. I know, since I left my job willingly (it was very stressful and making me ill) they might not let me claim for a while but thought Id give it a go anyway. My question is that if they ask me to do courses and the ilke what do I do with my toddler? My eldest (6) is at school but I…
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OH contract not being renewed, what can we do?
Hi there, My OH employment contract is not being renewed so he loses his job in about 10days. What can we do? im starting maternity leave in a few months and i have a 2yr old. I really dont want to lose the money towards her childcare as its impossible to find a really good provider round here! He's already applying for…
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Disabled and want to go to college - will I lose benefits?
Can anyone help me by advising what would happen to my benefits if I were to go to college? Right now I get incapacity benefit, income support topup, DLA mid care and low mobility, I also get LHA for my rent. Right now I am housebound and very unhappy, my support worker thinks it would be good for me to try a college…
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query about working tax credits and Ltd Company
Hi, just hoping someone might be able to help with my query. Myself and my husband have a Limited Company that usually makes a small profit. We have been claiming Working Tax Credits to top up the salary which we pay ourselves - which is the basic amount of about £500 each per month (each). At this year end however (May…
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Entitled to benefits
My sister has a chap living with her from her local church. He is from Africa, has lived and worked in UK for 6 yrs, married/seperated with a child. The mother told her solicitor that she feared he would leave the country with the child, so they removed his passport. This means he can not work or earn money to help the…
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Query, Tax Credits/Housing Benefits
I currently work part time (20 hours), I live with my partner and step daughter. During the christmas period, work is getting busy and my manager wants to know if I can do any over time. I can't call the council or inland revenue because i always get put on hold and I'd rather not have a huge phone bill come January. What…
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what can i claim, low income family.
im currently 6 months pregnant and really worrying about money after the babys here, i have no idea what benifits i can claim, my partner is self employed but work is pretty low atm and hes only working about 11 hours a week, i no i can claim child benefit when babys here but is that it? we are really struggling as it is,…
