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Already getting maximum TC for childcare...to work the extra day or not?
I work full time and my children go to a childminder for 50 hours per week. The maximum I can claim for the two children is £300 which is very close to what I get per week in tax credits. However, the cost per week is £375 (£75 per day). Would I get into trouble with anyone if I dropped a day at work by choice to save me…
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Self employment and Maternity allowance.
Hi all, Was wondering if someone can help me. Please be gentle! I have been doing some tutoring since midish sept 2011, for an agency and for a new agency since Nov (overlap) and been steadily making on average around £40 - £50 a week since then, some weeks more or less depending on demand. I figured as I would never earn…
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Moving from Carer Benefits to starting a business - 2 Part question
Thankyou for help
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Am I entitled to anything from the government etc
I am a contractor and sick pay is not in my contract. If i am ever off sick for a few days is there anything I can claim? Ive looked into SSP but apparently that is something that your employer pays you. Am I entitled to anything without involving my employer or do i just have to suffer the loss? TIA
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what happens if we can't find the extra 8 hours??
please don't bite my head off :p . the extra 8 hours 'provisionally' given to me are no longer available :mad:. gosh, feel so upset yet so angry. i've been constantly mithering since october. 2 weeks ago, i was finally given the extra hours which i could start as soon as the store manager gave the ok. my manager is off now…
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Quiting Apprenticeship & effects on claiming JSA
Hi all, I am currently on an apprenticeship scheme which I am leaving, I have handed in my notice, due to a number of reasons. Just a quick question, will this mean I can't claim JSA for 6 months after I leave, as it is of my own volition, even though it is an apprenticeship? I am paid the apprentice wage, and it is full…
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Work - lose money
I have a dialema I have been out of work for almost 3 years and was found a temporary (6 month) job which ended 8 months ago - since then, I have not claimed any ESA - Partly because of my other half not liking it, partly because I keep thinking "the next job interview will be sucessful" - I finally accepted the inevitable…
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can i claim more benefits?
Hi, this is going to sound greedy, but on Monday I read of a woman who came to England, sells the big issue and has just won a claim for some additional benefit of £1500 bringing her annual benefits to £26k - i earn £15k, and my partner brings up our child and works part time, earning about 8k - so we are both working, we…
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Info needed: Staying with a friend on benefits. Its effects on them?
Hi there. I'm staying with a friend while I look for somewhere to live (after being made homeless) and (hopefully) get a job. My friend (single parent) and her family claim various benefits including IS, DLA and CB. I am currently on JSA. Can my friend be affected by my staying with her? Would her benefits be cut and could…
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Tax Credit Office: FHL losses
Hi I just wanted to check if this is the right board to discuss problems with the Tax Credit Office. The dispute relates to the treatment of Furnished Holiday Let (FHL) losses in 2010-11. The Tax Credit Office maintains that the losses are not allowed to be deducted from total income in 2010-11 'because the law changed'. I…
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newbie,mortgage interest payments
advice needed please, i have an interest only mortgage,iam claiming income support, and carers allowance. Full time carer for my dad who lives in own flat, dwp are only paying 50% of the monthly mortgatge payments, i have been told that dwp should be paying most if not all, due to mortgage being interest only.
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daughter claiming JSA-they need my work details?
Hi. Was wondering if anyone can help here? My 20 year old daughter is starting the claim process for JSA after loosing her job. She has been asked to provide contracts and pay slips for everyone in the house she lives in who is employed. Is that normal and how will what I earn ( although it is not much) affect her claim?…
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Filling in DLA Form
Hi, I'm new here and I expect my question has been asked and answered before but I'm not very good with the computer so don't know where to look so apologies and thanks in advance for your assistance. I was awarded DLA two years ago and it's now up for renewal so have to fill in a DLA form again. I'm going through a really…
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advice please
hi some one told me that they will be changes to wftc in april im a single mum and work 16 hrs a week, some one said i will have to work more hours last week when i rang tax credits to put my claim in i was told it isnt true any advice?
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Maternity Pay
Hi, My friend is currently pregnant. She works as an apprentice full time and earns around 12k a year. She currently meets the criteria for SMP. However, she is on a 12 month fixed term contract. She has worked out that her contract ends 13 weeks before her due date. If the company do not decide to extend her contract will…
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sharing child benefit and Tc's after seperation
my husband and i are newly seperated, im just fully moved in to my new house. because the tax credits are in my name and im not currently working (though should have something within the month woohoo) the rate has increased. The child benefit is also in my name. He says that as we are sharing the children 50/50 he should…
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really worried for friends dad
can anyone help my friends dad put up his son for about 5wks last year as he was homeless whilst he was there he started signing on for jsa he,s since moved in with his girlfriend thing is he is still using his dads address as a c/o address ,now mail from DWP arriving as not c/o the dad is retired , on dla, housing, and…
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LHA calculations and overpayment
This may be quite long-but Id like to get as many facts in as possible. I have commited the ultimate MSE sin-I read documents properly this morning for what must be the first time since receiving them on the 14th of April 2011. In march I reported a salary increase to our local council-I had a visiting officer come to my…
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Discretionary HB Top Up
Has anyone ever been successful with this? With the changes in HB we now have to use some of our Income Support to pay the rent. Income Support is not not exactly much and as the G'ment put it 'The minimum you need to live on'. So now we have below the amount needed. We rent a 3 bed house. It is one of the lowest rents…
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Atos complaints procedure
Has any one actually made a complaint to Atos and if so can they enlighten us all as to what can be expected. I have concerns that this whole assessment set up is illegal as it seems to be an automated assessment . If you read throught the Data protection Act it says that we have the right not to have an automated…
