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Job Seekers Allowance & Bank Statements
I have been made redundant recently and have made a claim to JSA. My job centre have not yet allowed my claim as they say they need to see my bank statements and have proof of buildings insurance. I'm not claiming for help with the mortgage as this is insured and I'm sure I read somewhere that I am not obliged to let them…
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Advice needed for disability circumstances.
Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone can give me some advice on the following situation. My wife has degenerative arthritis of the lower spine which has gradually got worse over the past 5 years, and she is now in severe pain all the time. She has always refused to claim DLA before but is now so bad that she has realised things…
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Lha
Hi, me and my wife will be moving to private rented accomodation in the near future and are wondering if we would be able to claim Local Housing Allowance. I only earn £11,300 pa and my wife who only works part time £4365 pa. I have read we may be eligible but are not sure if there is a limit you must earn? Thank You
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Help On CTC and WTC
Hi Can anyone advise roughly what entitlement we would have for the above. I currently earn £15.5 k and OH earns £27K. I have the possibility of a job closer to home, but will have to drop to £9k. OH earnings will stay the same. we would also have to pay childcare costs of £54 per week Have recently put in a claim form…
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Working and ESA
Hi all, just a quick query. OH is currently on income based ESA and is claiming for me. He also gets DLA higher mob and mid care. There is a chance that I may be able to go back to work part time (over 16 hours) and will earn approx £146 pw before stoppages. Will he still be entitiled to ESA?
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WTC changes in 2011? how do I know how much I will get starting April ?
Hello I wonder if anyone can advise me. At present I am getting working tax credit and child tax credit as I work full time and my son is full time in a nursery. However I would like to know how much I will be getting starting April and I cannot find any calculator for the new coming financial year? My income for the year…
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Unable to work due to illness
My girlfriend is 23 and has recently had to resign from her job of 2.5 years due to illness. She's been off sick since March last year and was diagnosed with endomitriosis in May. Since then she has wanted to return to work, however the chronic pain she endures has put a stop to this, along with the medical side effects…
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Advice with tax credits RE: Moving in with a FT student.
Hi, I am hoping that someone on here will be able to help me with a query... I am a mother of 2 living in England. At the moment I have a single tax credits claim for CTC and WTC. I am hoping to move to Scotland to move in with my partner. My partner is a full-time student with a student loan of approx £7000/yr. I am…
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can anyone help/advise me ?
hi guys - im a newbie so sorry in advance if Ive posted this in the wrong place!! Ok so down to my question....At the moment im a single mum of 2 and I work 16 hours p/week and recieve tax credits.... Im thinking of taking on another job that would be 10 hours p/wk - If I do, I will then be working 10 hours one week and…
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tax credits late?
Hi everyone just a quick question. We get our child tax credits paid weekly and they are usually in our account by now but havent apoeared yet, does anyonw know if theres a problem?
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Permitted Work
I am currently claiming Incapacity Benefit and have decided that I now want to try and return to work, hopefully full-time (eventually). I know about the permitted work rules that state that I have to work less that 16 hours/week and earn less than £95/week BUT... the 16 hours /week rule is an average figure I believe.…
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Advice on the Job Grant, please.
Hi, My husband has been unemployed for about 15 months now and in that time we've had a baby. He's been unable to find work in his field so now our LO is a bit bigger I started to look for work again too. I think (fingers crossed!) than an interview I went for last week might result in a part-time 16hr/week job! So,…
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Is there anything i can do in the meantime?
HIya & thanks for any help you can give me. I have been seperated for a few months and claiming benefits (DLA high/low,ESA,Child Tax,Child Benifit,HB &CTB) everything is running ok but i have decided to get back with my husband and he has given his job up to move in with me opposite ends of the country and be a carer until…
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Tax credits help!
Hi. I returned to work full time in May 2010, before that I was on maternity leave and once that finished I was doing 16hours a week. As I started back full time once the new tax year had started, I was able to keep getting my tax credits up until April this year. Iam now taking home £190 a week and my partner £290 a week.…
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child tax credits-baffled
Hey hope someone can help me! I went for IS interview as been on it for 6 months and jobcentre adviser said im not getting the right amount of CTC and that it goes down in April and she said this was wrong. So she phones tax credits but they just sed it was right etc. I phoned myself when i got home and again they said its…
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Childcare costings
Been out of work for a while, firstly due to caring for my wife and then I fell ill. Since then things have improved to the point where I have managed to secure myself a pretty good job, however the missus is a student nurse so her placements are quite erratic meaning childcare for four children is something we now have to…
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dwp payment of £2000 ?????
hi, ive recently returned to work after being on benefit for a year. im working 16 hours a week and am now entitled to the usual ctc and wtc. i have 3 kids and am a single parent. ive had my new award thru which all seems normal. im also getting the back to work bonus and in work credit. anyway i go to my bank on tuesday…
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A little JSA advice please?
Hi, here's my living situation; I'm 30, live with my 27 year old girlfriend and her retired mother in a flat co-owned by the pair of them. Financial Situation: I have some money in a current account (a pittance), no savings, no pension. My GF has no income and is a full-time student. She has a pension fund. Her mother has…
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£8723 tax credits finally written off!!
my case started in 2003 and after literally dozens of letters, phone calls and appeals i finally got my case looked into and written off. i had been explaining for years that i was very ill throughout that and following year and had no knowledge of any money going in or out of my accounts. most of the days i was so high on…
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Self employment credit eligibility
Hi all, I will be working as self employed as soon as I get my utr/cis number from hmrc.... We live in hope... I currently sign on via contribution based jsa. I started signing on on the tenth of January, but I lost my job back in the 3rd week of November 2010. I have put in a claim for backdated jsa as I was actually…
