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Help please, ESA stopped.
If anyone could give me some advise, I would be obliged. I went from IB to ESA work group in nov 2012. I had face to face interview with ATOS dr and he put me on a 2yr award. I took out money on 3rd dec and today went to take some more out, knowing what was left & expecting another 2 weeks payment. There was no more money…
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Benefit Investigation
Someone i know has had a letter from dwp investigating there claim. basically they had money in a isa that wasn't declared when they started the claim 5 years ago and because they drew a certain amount out the tax office alerted dwp that money had gone from isa to another account. dwp then asked where this had come from…
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ESA Payments
Could anyone tell me how ESA payments are made? Is it 2 weeks in arrears, 2 weeks in credit or is it 1 week credit and 1 week arrears. I hope I have explained that correctly and it makes sense to someone. Thanks
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Winter Fuel Payments - Care Home
My mother is entirely self-funding in a residential home. When she first moved, I advised the powers-that-be and was told that, because she is self-funding and living alone in a single room, she still qualifies for the single person's winter fuel payment of £300. £150 winter fuel allowance has now been paid into her bank.…
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Is uni allowed for tax credit?
Hi all,a question from a friend of my eldest daughter.She was claiming tax credits for her daughter who started university last september.Several weeks back she received a letter from taxman asking for written proof her daughter was in full time education,so she rang the university (coleraine n.ireland) and they supplied…
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Child tax credit and state pension
Does anybody know if claiming CTC affects state pension? My DD is in full time education and will be moving away from me to go to college and will be moving in with my parents. I currently get CB and CTC for her which I will be transferring to my mother. Will doing this affect my parents state pension? TIA for any help.
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Tax credit overpayment
Hi I have been receiving letters from June of this year for an overpayment going back to, what I have been told over the phone is 2011. I have tried calling to find out what this relates to, both tax credits and the overpayments line have been really unhelpful and the overpayments line aggressive. I now will only…
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Tax Credit
I currently get £47 a week. I have been looking at the thresholds. If I earn just £1 over 30k in a year does this have a significant effect, or is it calculated on a pro rata way?
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Some Tax Advice Please
Hi, I left my job at the end of June 2013 which had Bupa Health Insurance as a benifit and my tax code was 853L as a result. I started my new Job on 1st July which has no benifits in kind. I phoned the tax office to tell them I no longer had the healthcare and wanted my tax code adjusted and they told me the following. *…
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work 16 or 15 hours a week??
Hi everyone, I have 2 young kids and am a single mum. Since having my second child and splitting from their Dad I have found work really hard just because of the nature of my job a lot of late night and weekend work. Work have also found it hard with me not hitting all of my £84k target for the year! So without sacking me…
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New year payments 2014
Anyone had a payment????? JCP call centre is open tomorrow 8am - 5pm
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childcare for students
Just want it to know if anyone else is in similar situation? I have started university last September, and like many students I have applied for Student Finance (SF). It wasn’t easy because they have lost my application twice. When they finally received it, they were saying allot of different things, like; there is no…
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Happy new year..
well thats another year almost gone so all thats left is to wish everyone the very best for 2014,may it bring everything you wish x
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Pension credits
Could someone explain if any of these would be affected please? My Mum recently moved in with us and her house is being sold. We have a buyer and should complete by the end of Jan 2014. Mum is 88 and gets her State pension, pension credits and lower rate AA.She also gets approx £80 per month from my deceased fathers…
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Pip from abroad/help/advice
Hi mery xmas to everyone.i thought i would give my rant over the board as to seek advice /help of my situation. I live abroad in an eu country and i recieve esa from uk back in june/july i made a claim for pip which i was informed by the royal british legion i could do this i did promptly.jump forward to sept i get a phone…
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DWP & SAR request
Hello, Please could someone advise me what I can do about this? I sent in a SAR request on the 29th August 2013. I used the official form I found on their website and sent it off with proof of posting to the local JC. Nothing arrived and I made a official complaint about it. This was dated the 12th November. Birmingham…
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Subletting and need to claim a HB top up
Hi all, I'm moving out on 11th of Jan (leaving this claiming late I know :( ) and I need to apply for housing benefit just for a small top up. I will be subletting from a friend. The section of the checklist for housing benefits says "Evidence of private rent and tenancy: Such as...a letter from your landlord..." My…
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Child Tax credits
Just received a letter from the tax office asking for details of my income from year 2008/9. Letter states they did not send me a declaration form. I did not receive any tax credits that year and in fact had to pay 2 months back to them as they insisted it was me who did not send the form in to them. Does this now mean I…
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New year payments 2014
We were the one of many of the Admin error by DWP Of the payment system at Christmas. Payment is due on 1/1/2014 Was told payment will be received on 31/12/2013 Im scared it will happen again of what happen at christmas anyone else feel the same??
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Confusion Over Enhanced Disability Premium
Hi, I was just having a discussion with a friend about ESA as my friend may soon be making a claim for it. It brought up a question, my husband is on CB ESA & in the support group, on our housing benefit award letter it states an amount for Enhanced Disability Premium, my friend says this is an Income Related premium we…