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Budgeting Loan help
About 13 months ago I applied for a budgeting loan of £750 which was successful, paying it back at £9.97 per week. As we were desperate for new clothes and bedding etc, we decided to apply again and the jobcentre agreed to another loan totalling £500. As we have already paid off roughly this amount.Thus making what we owe…
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Signing off jobseekers. HELP PLEASE URGENT.
I have my first shift from the agency I am signed up on, and it is tommorow so will need to sign off monday morning. I have a second job coming soon but a few questions are bugging me in the meantime. 1) If I get a few shifts then they stop, can I reclaim jobseekers under rapid reclaim? 2) I am half way through to my next…
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Housing Benefit and drop of income
Hi, We currently receive HB for us and our 11month old twins, my husband works full time. He has been diagnosed with a hernia today, and needs an op, he also has a bad knee and has been signed off work for 6 weeks, but may have to wait up to 10 weeks for the actual op. He can only get 4 weeks sick pay from his work, then…
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Tribunal waiting time.
http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/publications/statistics-and-data/tribs-stats/sscs-stats-notice-july2011.pdf Some figures from this. The average time to deal with a case was around 10 weeks in the beginning of 2008. As ESA kicked in, this rose to 15 weeks at the beginning of 2009, and now stands at around 25 weeks.…
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Total confusion...!
Made redundant as of 18th of this month and everything has got in a pickle. I'm currently deciding which agencies need a rocket placed up their backside, and currently, it seems all of them do! Whilst working, I claimed CTC, WTC, childcare and part HB. I should have got 4 weeks run on of TCs, but someone pressed the wrong…
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Housing Benefit claim rejection nightmare - PLEASE HELP!
Hello there everyone, I’m new to this forum but I have been reading the threads on here with great interest over the last few days. I wondered if anyone has had a similar experience dealing with Housing Benefit schemes as the (nightmare-ish) one I’m currently having… I became unemployed at the end of July when there was no…
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Child benefit help
Hi All, This is a bit of an unusal one but hoping someone can advise. OH has been offered a job overseas (non EU) but it looks as if he will be paid in the UK and net salary transferred to bank overseas. Our adult children will be remaining in the UK with (almost) 17 year old dd. The youngest is in full time college (main…
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ESA Form - Where do I send it?
Hello! Had a bit of confusion with the ESA form, I applied for contribution based when I should've applied for income related. They sent me another form and I've now filled it in, the problem is, it hasn't come with an envelope. I'm not sure where I should be sending the form back to? Does anyone know? Would like to get it…
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DLA Appeal
Does anyone have an idea of the % of appeals that are successful? DWP have said they will do a review (for a 2nd time) before appeal paperwork is passed to tribunal. How many goes do they need? Or is it "he who dares wins"? Not personal to me, but just curious about A.N. Other's battle.
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Tax credits childcare do payments stop automatically
Sorry probably a silly question. Do payments stop when my youngest starts school? Or will i have to phone and tell them he starts school or will they know already? Will i lose all of the working tax credit element? Thanks in advance
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Funeral Payment from the Social Fund
Hope somebody can advise me on this. My Dad recently died, leaving my Mum as widow. She had been, for a brief period whilst Dad was in a care home, been entitled to guarantee pension credit, housing benefit and council tax benefit. This has now all stopped as DWP have reassesed her state pension (she's inherited some of…
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Over 60 claims 16 to 30 hours
Hi All My first time on here, so please accept my apologies now or I will chicken out again. So here goes. Please Please can anybody help, I just need to know, if my husband who is aged 60, is eligible for tax credits he is now working 19 hours a week, following a reduction, by his employers from 30. He had been receiving…
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Tax credits claim being held but no reason
I have recently become single and have applied for both child tax credit and working tax credit. I contacted them today to see what was happening with the claim. They have told me the compliance department are 'looking into it' and this could take a month. Does any one have any idea why they would be looking into it? My…
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Unusual Situation!
Im a single parent with two children and get no maintenance for either of them. I work part time and receive working tax credit and council tax benefit. My father died 2 years ago and his wish was to use the money he left to buy a small flat for my eldest daughter which i have done. She is 16 so not old enough to have it…
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Working tax credit
Please help I have received a bill from working tax credits as they have overpaid me. Do I have to pay them back? Surely it's their mistake? Thank you
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Working family tax
Morning all, Just a quick questions my wife 24 is a student and myself 25 is working full time 37 hours per week, Can you advise if i can apply for working family tax? i cant seem to find any information about students, Thanks
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DWP - it could be you
Hello I`m new here, be gentle ;) I intend this as a heads-up as I believe this may well become commonplace. A couple of months ago I got a phone call from DWP saying they couldn`t continue with my claim as they didin`t have a start date for my new address. First, I assumed they meant my forthcoming change from Pension…
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NEW message re my dla claim.. and help please re tax credits
Well my claim that was restricted has now been allowed whi h I am so pleased for my daughter who has the poorly child. WHat I would like to ask you is I rang up the tax credits today and they said that they can only back date to when i went to the tribunal and awarded my claim not from the date i have been awarded the high…
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Would I be/am I entitled to
I have been on medication....20mg Citalopram, 2mg Diazepam, 5mg Zolpidem since my cancer diagnosis in 2004....this is due to the severe side effects/mentally....that the diagnosis, surgery, treatment etc., caused. I also take Co-codamol daily due to joint and knee pain. Would I be/am I entitled to any benefits due to my…
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Quick tax credits question
i have just started a new job,done a quick calculation on my new salary and i reckon i might just go over the 10,000 disregard,if i go over the disregard how is the payback calculated....i am not talking a lot over,maybee between 2 and 3 hundred pounds,i have called up and updated but was told i would be within the 10k so…
