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Tax Credits/circumstances changing
Hello all, I am currently working part time, my partner full time. We have a 1 year old son who attends nursery 2.5 days a week. We do not qualify for WTC as our estimated income for 2010/11 is just over the limit. We do get £128 weekly CTC which just about covers childcare costs. We were recently given notice by our…
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Help Please - What Can We Claim??
Hi all, I know you probably get a lot of these types of questions but I could really do with some help. Any advice you can give will be great. Basically, my partner resigned from his job on Tuesday before he was sacked. Not really anything he did wrong, but was sort of pushed out. He worked there six years. He resigned so…
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Maternity benefits
Posting on behalf of a friends daughter please to please request some advice Shes happily married and has just told me shes 6 weeks pregnant I know theres going to be a shake up of maternity benefits soon but does anyone please know of any sites she could look at so she can work out if she is entitled to any benefits such…
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Help with what I can claim..
Hi, im currently off work sick atm with bad social anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder, I am getting SSP from my employer. I am seeing a therapist regarding my anxiety and ocd, and im also being referred to someone who can help me more in-depth as i dont feel as though im getting any better. I know work will prob…
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Underpaid Support for Mortgage Iinterest by DWP
Hello, I hope someone has some info on this. I'm trying to help a friend who is unwell and unable to deal with all this sort of problems. She is in receipt of State Pension which is topped up with Pension Credit as she has no other income and therefore qualifies for SMI. Like many posters she has been advised by the…
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ESA help please
Hi everyone- long time lurker finally registered and posting in need of some advice :beer: I recently broke my foot very badly and have had surgery and am now on crutches/in a wheelchair for the forseeable future. My GP has given me a fit note (sick note) until the 16th November. When I broke my foot (18th Sept) I had just…
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Csa
Dear Members, I am going through a divorce and we have no assets so I had to leave our Army home with nothing but my boys and our things and had to find somewhere to live. I have both our children he pays me £350 per month. It was more but he cut it down out the blue. We agreed on that amount because i've been left with…
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New Link for ESA with JSA
Hi, I claim JSA more out of necessity than choice! I used to claim ESA, but failed the medical and became so stressed out with the appeal system that I moved over to JSA. I have read that the government are to link ESA and JSA together. Those that are in the 'Support Group' are unaffected, but those that are put in the…
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Can someone advise me re CTC please and casual work.
I have applied for a job at Royal Mail as a casual Christmas worker, as far as I know it will be full time until around the 23rd December, so I'm looking at about 10 weeks of work. I'm worried about my CTC. I am aware I have to declare it, but is it going to cause me more hassle in the long run if I do get this job? Will…
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This will be complicated....
Hi all,i'll try and keep this as short as possible and any advice would be appreciated. After leaving school i worked for British Rail for nearly 14 years.For the following 12 years i was self-employed working in construction,paid my taxes but no National Insurance since British Rail. Anyway i had ongoing problems with my…
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if my son is claiming income support can he claim housing benefit while at college
my son who is 17 recently moved out and moved into this house which he is sharing, no rental contract or anything like that and he is claiming 50 pound a week income support and is starting college full time soon would he still be able to claim housing benefit as the person he is sharing house with is now asking for 50 a…
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Possible to claim hardship?
Hey there, hoping for your advice relating to hardship benefit? Friend of mine was on the new deal, and stopped attending his course for 2 weeks. He's just got a letter saying "you no longer are eligible for job seekers allowance". This leaves him completely broke, although he is living with parents, so is unsure whether…
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Council Tax/Housing Benefit Dilemma
Hi all, I'm moving into a new flat next week. I work full-time and have no children but according to the council website I'm eligible for housing benefit as I'm on a fairly low wage. My dilemma is this. I haven't paid council tax at my current address, despite graduating from university last September and working full-time…
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tax band & child benefit help...
sorry in advance as i'm sure i should know this already! If i'm earning 39k i am in the 40% tax bracket. how is the personal allowance affecting this? if you earn 46k you're still in the 40% tax bracket - but child tax credits won't apply? sorry if this sounds silly
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HB change in circumstances
Hi, I am receiving HB since May 2009. When I made my claim, I was working for the company. In July 2009 I became self-employed. Rung Council HB department and told them about it. Then forgot about it all untill yesterday, when came back home and found a letter "We need more information. Change in circumstances". I just…
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is there any way i can get my employment and support allowance paid weekly?
Hi all, Im new to this just after some advice if anyone could help, i am on long term employment and support allowance and get paid fortnightly, is there any way of getting it paid weekly? Ryan
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Having a baby....
I have no idea what to do here. I'll try and summarise my situation briefly. I'm 25 years old, live in a house in Surrey with a friend of mine, privately rented. We pay £950 in rent a month, so I personally pay £475 a month. Plus another £450 or so on bills, council tax, transport to and from work, food etc. I currently…
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Burial/Cremation costs on lowish income
My brother and his fiance have sadly just lost their first baby at 38 weeks gestation - complete bolt out of the blue. I was wondering if there is any help available to them for burial costs, if the baby had lived they would have qualified for a highish rate of CTC but not WTC (he earns approx £17,000 a year she is on SMP)…
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Advice needed
I am wondering can someone help me as Im not at all sure how TC &WTC work. I am due to have my 1st baby in Dec. I will leave work on 3rd Dec and am set to return after 9mths Sept 2011. My question is-when can i start claiming for TC & WTC? I will be on full pay for 6 mths then 3mths SMP. My income for 09-10 was £1695.00…
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Good to claim maximum in vouchers?
Hi We pay around £4500 a year in childcare and my husband and I both work for companies that have childcare voucher schemes. If we both pay the maximum allowance we believe this would mean that we would have £1332 credit in vouchers by the end of the year. We don't pay a set amount each month and so we're wondering if we…
