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Missing an ESA payment
Hi All, I am lead to believe that given my normal payment day of Monday, I should have received an ESA payment on Friday due to the bank holiday. However, this has not happened. Is this something I should be getting stressed about? Or should I just wait until tomorrow? Thanks
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Swapping from income support to jsa
Hi, My youngest child is 5 today and so my entitlement to income support stops. I received a payment on 16th August and am/was paid fortnightly. Does anyone know if i will receive any kind of payment this coming Friday with child only turning 5 today or will i have received all payments now? Also, how does the transition…
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First time claiming jobseekers - can it be done in advance?
Hi, I'm a recent graduate (summer 2012) who's worked pretty much continously since. I decided to leave my current place of work recently, and finished yesterday. I've been seeking work these last couple of weeks, with no success as of yet, and was looking to claim JSA today to help me through the next couple of weeks.…
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DWP Claims Estate of Mother
This has been touched on before, but all cases are different Mum died on the 22nd of June 2013 and her will placed me as executor with her firm of solicitors. Her solicitors provided a letter of renunciation; making me the sole executor and I received probate on the 5th of August 2013. The DWP sent a letter before probate…
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Benefits for Newly Diagnosed Aspergers?
Hello. For my entire life I have been suffering from anxiety, depression and social anxiety, and have been receiving Income Support with Incapacity Benefit. This means assessments which are incredibly stressful for me, and often make me very withdrawn for a long time afterwards, especially when my claim is denied and I…
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Housing Benefit query
Ok, here is my situation: My husband and i have been living together for 8 years, when we first moved in together we had a mortgage, then we decided to move to a smaller property as we were struggling to keep up the repayments. My mum helped us out by lending us some money to lower our mortgage to lower our repayments and…
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Off sick - fractured ankle help
Hi, My partner has recently fractured his ankle in a sports injury. He doesn't get sick pay from work and as this is going be a few weeks off sick job I'm wondering if anyone can help on whether he can claim anything other than SSP as this is major drop from his earnings and I have no idea how we will pay all the bills. I…
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HMRC Working tax credits error. Please help
Good Morning. In August 2009 I was retired though ill health but my last day of employment was in dispute as my employer had backdated it , in my termination letter, to June 2009. In September I notified HMRC of my change of circumstances including that the date of termination was in dispute for the reason above. HMRC have…
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DSS with my sister in 2 bedroom flat - is this realistic?
My sister is looking for a place too. I will be sorting everything out very soon but I would like to know this in the meantime. Is it possible that me and my sister (both DSS for now) can find a 2-bedroom flat that accepts DSS and then both go halves and live together? We get on well and so on - doing our halves each is no…
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Esa / esa3
Mrs (53) gets ESA (was IB) and DLA. I am retired (58) and have been for almost 2 years with pension income. In those 2 years I have also earnt about £500 and also do voluntary work. I claim nothing. Just moved house (both private rental) and informed DWP of move. DWP sent ESA3 and ESA suspended while we complete it.…
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Claiming Housing Benefit with some savings
My father is currently on Incap Benefit and this is topped up with Pension Credit - he has no savings and no income so also gets Housing benefit and help with council tax - this has been the case since he was forced to quit work 3 years ago. he is due to turn 65 early in 2014 and will switch to State Pension but he…
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Housing Benefit for under 25's being scrapped?
Asking for my sister as she is planning to move out soon, however cannot afford a place without the help of HB. It was mentioned last year that under 25's would have housing benefit scrapped altogether in October once Universal Credit rolls in. Is this still going ahead?
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How much NI contribution is enough for contribution-based JSA?
I've looked about but all I get is 'if you've paid enough NI'. How much is 'enough'? Thousands? Does anyone have a magical idea? :)
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ESA Appeal Timescale
How long does it roughly take on average? And will I continue to get the same rate of benefit I get now on IB until it's sorted out? Thankx
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ESA Medical Failed....do payments stop while appealing?
Hi! Asking this for my ex sis in law. She only got 12 points from her medical. Will she get any ESA whilst appealing? Thanks :)
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reduced hours
Hoping for some help. My mil hours have been reduced from 39 to 32 a week. She is on the minimum wage. I checked before and she wasn't entitled to any benefits whilst working full time. Is there anything she can get now her hours have been cut? (company have done this to all employees to save money) She hasn't had any…
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Are we eligable to apply for tax credit
Hi, i was just wonderind do dividends count when applying for tax credit...my partner is on minimum wage and receives dividends ....varied amounts each year ....and i work pt earning approx £8k pre deductions. We have not applied for tax credit as we think my earnings plus his and dividends put us over the threshold....any…
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tax credit + Earning query. Please help.
Hi guy. I'm looking to start work again as a mobile hairdresser. But I have a dilemma. I want to know how much I can earn before I start to effect my tax credits. So that I can set targets for my self to cover my loss from it. My husband earns £25k. X
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PiP, Housing benefit and being a student
Now I understand being a student in receipt of PiP means I may still have some housing benefit entitlement? I may be returning to uni having suspended my studies to sort myself out a bit. What income do they take into account? I should be getting the special grant, DSA and PiP plus normal student loan. Thanks!
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Man and wife both sick...failed medical...help?
I am asking for my sister. She is 22yrs old and has had a terminal illness from birth. The average life expectancy for this illness is around 32. She suffers very badly and takes around 80 tablets a day. She had a medical with ATOS who have deemed her fit for work scoring her 0. She had it reviewed and lost that too so she…
