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How do i delete old posts?
How do I delete old posts on the forum?
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FAO a housing benefit officer
There's a rumour circulating that if you have been in the same house and claimed housing benefit continuously since 1996 you are exempt from the spare room subsidy due to some sort of rent regulation, there is also a letter doing the rounds supposedly from Exeter council sent to a claimant saying due to these regulations…
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Change to housing Benefit
I moved in October and filled in Housing Benefit form for new address, same council etc. I now do not pay bedroom tax now and get full housing Benefit. because change of circumstances housing benefit pay directly into my bank. Everytime it goes in I pay on line to housing. I was shocked to get a letter from my housing…
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ESA decision.... advice please on what happens next
Hi, im new to this so please bear me with me if i have posted in the wrong section etc Looking for some advice please.. My husband has been recieving IB for years since he was told he couldn't work due to his long term hip and bone problem. During the summer he was sent for a interview with atos, about changing him to ESA.…
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Filing tax return
Hello, I am mrs and trying to fill in my 12-13 tax return In feb 13 my husband went self employed and set up a limited company, and we are the 2 and only shareholders. We haven't completed the business profit and loss by filing accounts with company house as this is due in FEB 14, yet on my tax return it asks what…
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Esa
I get Contribution based and Income related ESA. When the Contribution based ends how much will I still get from the income related? I have no end date on ESA. I am single, no savings. Only other money is DLA.
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Self Employed Class 2 Small Earnings Exception
Hi All, I have a Small Earnings Exception from 2012 which is covered until April 2014. I stopped being self employed in mid 2012 and became self employed again on January 2013. Would the SSE be still valid until April 2014? I have some class 2 NIC letters (April 2013 and the other October 2013) would they not send me…
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Tax credit overpayment now referred to Equita
A relative of mine received a letter in August 2013 notifying him of an overpayment of £3577.34. He rang Tax credits and because this overpayment had been made to himself and an ex partner, Tax credits said they would recover 50% from each of them. He received a letter saying confirming the payment plan agreed and that…
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Universal Credit Whinge
I claimed contribution based JSA for almost 6 months this year. In October I started a temporary job, which has now ended. In October I was told that if I hadn't found another job I would be able to complete a rapid reclaim for JSA when the assignment ended. Last night I went online to complete the claim only to get a…
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Child Tax Credit & Tax Credit Overpayment Repay Advice Needed
Hi, I have been sent a letter saying I have been overpaid in Child & Tax credits for the years 2011/2012. Abit about me: I lost my job year and a half ago and currently working part time. I barely have a living and struggling to pay even the basics. Because my partner is working part time too, I'm not intitled to any help…
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Taxable Employment Support Allowance
I wondered if someone could offer me some advice. I was forced to give up work due to a serious illness. I applied for ESA and was placed in the support group. I was awarded contribution and income based ESA. In September my workplace awarded me an ill health pension after appealing their decision not to. I immediately…
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Interview with compliance officer
I am a single mother with a young child and recently moved out of my parents place as my dad did not want me living there any longer. I am renting accommodation and claiming HB/tax credits/income support. I was called for an interview at the jobcentre as they are suspicious as to how I am getting money. I have a shortfall…
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DLA and Rheumatoid Arthritis
I have suffered with RA for 4 years and was in receipt of lower care DLA. When I sent my renewal forms back last year, I was refused and have been to tribunal today. It was one of the worst things I have been through, I felt like a criminal on trial. When I was first awarded DLA, they said it wS because I needed help to…
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Best wishes
Wishing everyone who helps and gets help on this board a merry christmas and a happy and healthy 2014 xxx
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Tax credits and SIPPS
Straightforward question. For a tax credits claim, if I put my earnings down my taxable income is reduced by the amount I put into my employers pension (salary sacrifice). Is there an equivalent for if you put (for example) extra payments into a SIPP? Thanks all.
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University
ok hello everyone first ,now my daughter who is a loan perantas a child (aged 17 ) is at college ,as from sept 2014 he as a place at University ,can some one please tell me ,dose his mums child benefit stop and also he child tax credits,hope you can understand this ,thank you and take care
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Benefits(DLA & ESA) into an online Savers Account?
Hello, would it be possible for my benefits to be paid into a Halifax 'Online Saver' account? I looked at the account. There is a sort code and an account number, and I can transfer money into my Easycash account(with the debit card) instantly, but I can remember a part on the benefits form asking with Branch I use and…
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Self employment and working tax credits
Hi, I am a volunteer business mentor for a well known charity and met a new mentee last night who is setting up her own business which she will operate as a sole trader. Her concern is that she believes that her current working tax credits will be stopped when she begins trading as it will take a few months if not longer…
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JSA Sanction > signed off > now what? Help!
Hello, Looking for some advice please, having not gotten anywhere on the phone with DWP today:( My JSA was recently sanctioned (upon review after 2 months from first claiming as my reasons for leaving my former employer were not good enough). The sanction was for 6 weeks and as it stated my NI contributions would 'not' be…
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Questions about a will
Hello My husband mum died end we have just found out that his siblings have been made executors. Does it mean that it's up to them to decide whether to show my husband the will or not? If they refused can this be challenged? Also one sibling told him they have a cheque that his mum wrote before dying. Could this be cashed?…
