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ESA Work Related Group Meeting
I have my first meeting tomorrow, what will happen? I dont feel ready for work as i suffer from anxiety. Im currently recieving counselling and anxiety management help
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Self employed and part time employed at same time
Hi all, Sorry if this has been asked before. I have been self employed since April last year and I am starting a Saturday job next week for which I will be paid monthly. At the moment I have not paid any tax for my business and have been making the minimum NI contributions on a quarterly basis. I have only earned around…
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working tax credit stopped
Hi,wonder if any one can help.A friend of my wife is single with 2 children.She works 17 and a half hours a week,and has done for the last 5 years.She was told today that this was not enough hours as she only works term time in a school.She has told tc this lots of times and been told it was fine.they stopped her wtc as of…
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income-based JSA & Reducing Savings by overpaying the mortgage prior to claiming
Hope someone here might be able to offer some advice, the official info on this is virtually non-existant, and I am unsure where we stand? My partner is due to be given redundancy notice in the next few weeks. (I am self-employed, but earn virtually nothing, so will also need to find a normal job). He will be out of work…
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working tax credits for those living abroad
hi, can someone please help me... I live abroad in Greece but am employed by and English company.. I get paid in the UK and pay my NI in the UK... I am employed for 7 months out of the year and am on a low income... the tax office says that I have to live in the UK to get working tax credits and I can't pay IKA into the…
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help jsa and disabilty
what other preuims do you get with jsa my oh is disabled on high rate mobilty my dd is on lower rate of care and lower rate of mobilty i have read that you could get some preuims for disabilty if you get jsa dose anyone know if this is true thanks
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dla appeal
can anyone tell me is it worth apealing when your application has been turned down in this present climate when the government seem hell bent on making these cuts.
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ESA to self employment - benefits
Just need a bit of advice really.. I hope to be coming off ESA (support group currently) within the next 6 months - may be fairly soon, may be a while away, but I'm definitely hoping within 6 months. I'm looking to go into self employment, I've looked on the directgov and it appears I may be able to get a Back to work…
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Is it worth claming working tax credit
I have had my working tax credits payments reduced to £17.78 as my girlfriend is no longer working, so i was thinking of stop claming wtc and doing overtime but the problem is there ain't always overtime going. so if i still claim wtc and do overtime will i have to contact wtc everytime i do overtime.
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Mortgage Interest Benefit Claim Form MI12
I've recently had a run in with an MI12 form as doubtless a lot of other people have and been faced by the news that only the amount of lending that you can proove was used for the original house purchase or work carried out on the property attracts the limited assistance. I look like being hit by the news that even with a…
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JSA stopping and reapplying
I have applied for JSA. After few weeks some employment agency gave me work to do for a week. It was over 16 hours, so I call jobcentreplus and said so. The man on the other end said that he will stop my claim and after that week I will need to phone a number and claim JSA again, if I want to or need to. So basically if…
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Help Asap Plz, Carers Allowance Claim
I am posting this on behalf of my 17 year old step-daughter who has some learning needs, she's been a young carer for her mum for years, mum has mental health issues and back in hospital again the last 6 days, step daughter and mum live together, mum gets DLA High Rate,Child Benefit, Child Tax Credit, HB and Council Tax…
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On SSP - just been turned down for HB
This is a friend of mine - hubby collapsed at work just before Christmas - it has been established it is a heart condition of some sort so has been signed off sick while it is investigated. As yet he hasn't received any SSP. He has applied for HB but just been turned down due to income being "too high" - but he hasn't had…
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qualifying years for JSA?
I wonder if some kind person can advise about the national insurance payments required to claim Contribution based job Seekers allowance? I understand that it is necessary to have a certain amount of National insurance contributions paid over a period of two years. My sister's part time and temporary work is likely to end…
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Bipolar and lost with wrong advise please help!
Hi, i hope some one here can give me some good advise, i have been off work for a number of years with depression, i was getting income support and incapacity benefit. then after some time i felt that i wanted to work and contacted the Richmond fellowship for help back to work. i was told that i needed to work 16 hrs and i…
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help with housing bond
my son and daughter in law are living in a housing association house that is too small for them.they are being terrorised by a group of men in their early 20s.to cut a long story short my son used to be hevally into drugs and hung out with these people he is not on drugs now hasnt been for over a year.problems started week…
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how long does a new claim take for tax credits?
hi does anyone know how long for a tax credit claim takes to process and if there is anyway of collecting forms rather than waiting for them in the post?
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Please DELETE, posted in error.
Posted here in error, have reposted in the DEBT free wannabe forum. Please DELETE
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Changes to tax credits for babies under one?
Apparently they're stopping the extra payment from April that you get for babies under the age of one: Changes in your payments The most common reasons why your payments may have gone down or stopped are:* a child reaches 16, but you haven't told the Tax Credit Office that they're staying in full-time education or approved…
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Inalienable Benefits
Hi, I am looking for more information on Inalienable Benefits and exactly what this covers. Today my bank took £50 of charges from my Tax Credits leaving me in financial hardship. When I went into the bank I was advised that the bank can take money to cover charges from any deposits made into the account, when I explained…
