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How many days in the week?
Hi Does anyone know how many days the jobcentre count as a week, are we paid from Monday to Friday (5 days) or Monday to Sunday (7 days)? I get JSA at £67.50 per week and I am trying to work out how much that is per day. Thanks Dana
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First time applying for ESA
My son had to resign from college earlier this year due to ill health. He has not been claiming anything and has been relying on us to help him out. We have now had our CB and WTC cut due to him not being in education. He is under the doctors and a specialist at the hospital who have given him tablets to take to try and…
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SEN autism jsa
I am currently joint claiming jsa with my partner we have a child of ten who has speech and language difficulties and is considered in the autistic spectrum by our local speech and language therapist,he has a full SEN statement,he has 24 hrs assisted help at school.,friends say we should claim DLA and carers…
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Tax credits using wrong info - Help!!!
My husband is a company director and is technically classed as being an employee although he works as though he is self employed. This seems to cause the Tax credits office a bit of confusion because his income is very low earnings topped up by dividends which fall into the 'other income' category. Due to the accountant…
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Am I better off getting childcare vouchers?
Circumstances : Working 40 hours per week Partner on long term IB 2 Kids in nursery costing £321 per week (applied for the £300 tax credits but as yet not been awarded). Income for last year was £19,180 and partners was £5,100. Vouchers of £243 per month. Thanks
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still receiving tax credits
I am still receiving w and c tax credits at over £300 per week I know I should not be getting this and have told them repeatedly. My phone bills has been sky high at the constant phone calls to tax credits to sort this out. Whtat happens if they realise I am being over paid depsite me telling them, how will I have to pay…
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ESA Support group and ? free prescriptions
my 19 year old daughter leaves school in july and is in the support group for the ESA..she is profoundly disabled. Can i claim free prescriptions for her? and if so which form do i need? I asked at Boots this am and the graduate chemsit didnt know what i was on about. He hadnt heard of ESA! THANKS Mandy
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no tax credits
had no tax credit today so i phone them up they say the letter s they have send have been return i.ve live here for 4years. 9 months been getting all my mail like dwp atos dla letters so dont know what what going off so dont know what gone off
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SSP running out - what next ?
My son is off work and his SSP is due to run out this month. He phoned his employers head office, and they told him to contact the DWP and tell them. I thought the employers had to send you a form and you took that along to the job centre ? Can anybody help ? He is on crutches in a 3rd floor flat and can't get out, not to…
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Am splitting from husband plse help.
Hi, Not sure if this is the correct forum to ask for advice, so have posted in another forum just in case. My Problem is I moved in with my partner 2 years ago, we got married (we have 1 child together and I have another one by previous partner). It is owned by him (and his mother paid half and is on the deeds too). Things…
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benefit when child leaves school
when should benefits office and child benefit office be notified that my child is leaving school? we are wondering because his exams are in may but school term dont end til july but he doesnt have to go back in school once he has done his exams. will child benefit stop straight away ? also will our claim for him stop…
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couples benefit question
hi everyone :) been a member here for a while but dont tend to post much so sorry if this has been asked before, just trying to get even a bit of information before we move. basically my husband and i are renting in england. our landlady needs the house back next month as shes getting made redundant. we only moved down…
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Serps
Hi, i have just found out that i can take 25% of my serps pension now approx £3,000,but i must take a monthly pension of £38.00 before tax. my question is how much will this affect my income support.I have not received my yearly break down of benefits,last year to this April my income support was £ 12.99 per week. I know…
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Tax and means-tested benefits, how does HMRC calculate it?
Hi, I was wondering, how are means tested benefits taxed when someone receives a private pension? Is a pension (gross) added to the means tested benefits (gross) then the persons tax code adjusted accordingly. Or... Are the means tested benefits, taxed at source (before you receive them). And then the private pension taxed…
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NI, benefits and pension newbie questions
Firstly apologies for what could be a longish first post. I have several queries about national insurance contributions. I lost a job a few years ago. Whilst working I had saved a fair bit of cash (night work is good for not affording the opportunity to spend during your time off) and paid NI contributions. Rather than go…
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Help! Can we claim Mortgage Interest Support?
Hi does anyone know what the ground rules for claiming help with mortgage interest payments are? I've been using up my (life's) savings to keep the mortgage paid while applying for every job I can (no replies... I'm over 50...) We already get Tax Credits as I'm technically self employed and don't earn much. We'll be out of…
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Is this ok?
Is this Ok? Right, my parents in the past few years have gave me roughly, £2000 ... this is in 4 cheques of £500 spread around 2-3 years. This is money that was meant for mine and my siblings University studying. They are getting into difficulty now paying the morgage so I want to give them back this money so they can pay…
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What help is available for disabled person who has had bungalow flooded out??
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WTC employed & self employed
hypothetical query about WTC calcuation - if you are employed and your annual earnings are 10k and also self employed where you make a loss, say a 3k loss - would your total earnings for the year for WTC purposes therefore be 7k? this is assuming you meet all the entitlement criteria etc etc thanks
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Not entitled to SSP?
In January my hours were cut to only 11.25 a week from 25 hours a week. I was already struggling to keep my head above water with paying the bills etc. Now I'm really struggling to make ends meet...it's practically impossible to live on £75 a week to say the least. I've been worrying about my debts and bills and my stress…
