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25k disregard
Hi All I have asked on a separate thread but thought I would title it better. Can someone please please explain this bloomin 25k disregard to me? I really don't understand it. Our tc we are currently receiving are based on last years income. HMRC wrote that they are estimating it on last years income. So if my…
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Benefit Entitlement
Hello everyone I hope someone can advise me on this matter. My son is aged 19 and has been diagnosed with ME/CFS 5 months ago. He has been ill for six yers and has gradually deteriiorated over the years. :( He is currrently getting some support from the Occupational therapist at hospital. Due to the severity of his…
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Study whilst on IS/DLA
I'm looking at going to college to gain some Highers via evening classes if the college do this. However.... I get Income Support and DLA and currently study via the Open University(OU). My cources via the OU are paid for me. Can anybody tell me how many hours per week I can study, with no effect to my Income Support?…
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1st Time Parents & Low Income-Benefit Advice
Hi I am wondering if anyone can help me at all? I am currently expecting and have made enquiries with my employer who has told me that my job cannot be part time and that I will have to work full time or not at all and on those grounds I won't be left with a job once I am a parent. My husband works and is only on around…
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30 hour element tax credit query?
Im not sure if working full time or part time makes any different to tax credits. does anyone know what difference it makes. If you are earning the same amount. having recently changed jobs doing less hours, but earning same as before. not sure whether it changes anything? thanks hope someone can help.
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Have I made a tax credits b*lls up??
Hi everyone I'm hoping someone can help me... My situation is that I am a single mother and my child is 2. When he was born I started receiving tax credits (working full time I earned about £18k the first year). At the end of the second year (I.e. March 2010) I had been promoted and was earning £25 and figured I wasn't…
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tax credit help
i had a job before christmas and got paid off but i was paid until 2/01/2011 i was on 452 before tax a week but have 6 children all under 20 and still at school my wife dosen't work i was getting tax credits but was wonderig how much they will go up by if i take a job now at 94.80 a week for 16 hours clear
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Contribution based JSA tax year question
Hi, Please can somebody tell me a little about contribution based JSA and the tax years used for assessment? I need to know how many months in tax years 08/09 and 09/10 i need to have worked and paid class 1 NI contributions in order to be eligible to claim the JSA now? I ask this as i had a gap of 4 months in the 08/09…
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cONFUSED ABOUT WORKING TAX CREDIT
:mad: Over the last 10 years I have been a fulltime carer for my son, who is disabled and who receives DLA. I was awarded Carer's allowance. I have recently taken a local job at a school offering 25 hours a week term times and as such I lose my Carer's benefit...as it is over 16hours a week. I was told by friends, however,…
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epilepsy please help
my daughter has been diagnosed with absence seizure epilepsy i have had to tell her not to cook or prepare food incase she hurts herself and she is very forgetfull doctors are still trying to get the right medication for her does anyone know if i can claim any kind of benefit for her due to this would appreciate any advice…
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Tax credit help please
Hello. The tc we are currently receiving monthly are based on last years income (my husband is self employed and I work part-time PAYE). They didn't ask us to estimate a new income for 2010-2011 when we did our renewal. They just said they would base 2010-2011 on last years income. We are probably going to have earnt more…
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On JSA and CTC - advice on taking a lodger please?
Hi, Newbie here so please be kind! :) I've had a search but nothing matches my scenario that I could see so I hope someone can advise? I'm a single mum, just come off IS and onto JSA due to daughter being 9. I get CTC, HB and CTB and part help with mortgage too (shared ownership property) Obviously money is tight (I'm a…
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benifits
I am on jobseekers but have just been diagnosed with C.O.P.D (a lung disease that will only get worse) the jobcentre still want me to work at least 16 hr. i don't think id get DLA ,is there any other benifits i should be able to get?
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Income Support/
Hello everyone. If anyone can read this and offer some advice it will be greatly appreciated. I am sorry that this is such a huge post but my style of writing is quite word count intensive and it is a complicated situation. Though perhaps not as complicated as some you come across :p I am 25 years old and a university…
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still waiting?
i applied for esa in november and im still waiting for a payment. i recieve the child tax credit towards that/ i have only got thru to the call centre today. they said lots of delays as they got snowd in and had skeleton staff.. let me explain that to people i owe money to and my direct debits, no wonder i have ill…
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sick pay help
hi i went in for the good old snip, apart from it went far from well. after complications (bleeding internaly) ive been off work nearly a month. im employed but my boss does not pay sick pay. will i only be entitled to statory sick pay? is there any thing else i can claim? many thanks andy
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Declined ESA after medical
Hi I have read through this thread and my OH and I are in complete disgust at the way the government are treating genuine ill people over this ESA crap. Sorry I am so angry after the way we have been treated, so will apologise now for the following post. My OH has recently lost his job through ill health after working in…
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Pension Tax Credit Question?
I am writing on behalf of my mum is widowed pensioner 67yo living on her own in own house (less than £10k savings, no mortgage) My father dies in 2007 and since this time i have been putting £30 in bank for her every week to help out, she gets only state pension plus small money from my dads pensions. Someone has mentioned…
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Banks allowed to do this?
iv just been to my bank and discovered they have taken £1000 off my overdraft limit, leaving me £700 over the new limit they have set, also i have had my DLA and tax credits swallowed up by the new changes leaving me and my family nothing to buy food or pay rent with. Can they take benefit money?
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whot do the job centre glass as a resnabel job offer
hi my husband had a job offer yesterday, its casual work so you never no if you are going to be working one week to the next, have to pay traveling exspences you could be working any wear in country so say he needs to travel 150 miles to a job petrol cost minimum wage .we have no savings 2 children how would we live n ot…
