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esa customer statement(CB)
Hi All, Has anybody received a ESA Customer service statement before? Anyhow, I have asked to be transferred over from JSA to ESA while I'll await my appeal. This morning, I received my ESA Customer statement. I have read through it carefully. In the Statement it says we require evidence and documents to support my claim.…
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Esa = jsa?
As I have mentioned in previous threads, I am in the ESA WRAG and I also get DLA mobility and daily living components. Had appointment at the job centre 2 weeks ago (since winning my medical and being placed in the WRAG) and the guy asked me about my illnesses and how I spend my days. At the interview he said (his words)…
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claiming ESA, timescales
Hi all! I applied for ESA last September, lots of delays but was awarded and had back pay paid on Christmas Eve 2013 (yay food!!!). I had my wca after 24 weeks (in June 2014). I am still waiting on a decision on my assessment, it's been 13 weeks. Anyone had any experience of this? I know delays are common after sending the…
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Housing Benefits in relation to savings over £6,000
Hi, I'm looking for an answer which directly deals with my question. I struggle terribly with long-winded answers because I can not keep my focus, so asking questions on Government websites only to then being directed and redirected from webpage to webpage has me forgetting immediately. My Question: I receive…
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Advisor advice at jobcentre
I'm currently working part time under 16 hours and claims jsa, I'm looking for a role in business and admin as I feel that's where is best for me now I've lost hearing. I qualifications and experience in healthcare as that what I was gearing up to work in as a career. I lost my hearing and subsequently removed from my Uni…
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Awarded Working Tax Credit......now worried
Long story, so I'll try and keep it as consise as possible. I didn't work, claim benefits for 18 months due to a a period of ill health. I started claiming income based JSA in April 2014 and signed off when I started my job in August. I earn £16k per annum and when signing off the job centre advised me to apply for Working…
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Help, I'm in a pickle!
Hi, I have been ticking the exemption certificate on the prescriptions as i thought I was entitled to it due to an underactive thyroid. I have a vacant memory of having a certificate, however I don't know if this was due to tax credits or not. I have realised due to moving house that I can't find one and don't know if I…
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Council Tax Pickle
Hi all, Bit of an issue with council tax so I'll try and summarise it. I moved into a house (which is a HMO) when I was a student. Ended up not being a student and went on JSA and HB. I was there from 14/06/14 til 29/08/14 and have now moved. As it was a student house and I was not a student, the house became liable for…
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Disability/Benefits and Marriage
Hi I have no eligibility for any benefits apart from low rate DLA. This is because I have just got married. I have schizophrenia, and I've just applied for ESA but I got declined because I don't have enough NI contributions. My wife works full time hours (35). I've tried the online benefit calculator and I'm not entitled…
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Benefits help, should I swap from ESA to Income Support??
I have been on ESA since 2010, been through the system of appealing etc to get here, I had a big fight to get it awarded. I had a baby in November 2013 let the benefits office know and they kept me on ESA, I have just had a phone call from them and they have advised me I can now claim income support that its completely…
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Moving in with a disabled partner and "benefits"
My partner currently lives in single story property that belongs to her family. She doesn't claim housing benefit on living there. What is received are the mobility and care components of the DLA, as well as being in the support group of ESA. All of the DLA and a large chunk of the ESA covers on-going treatment and dietary…
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I might lose my job ?
There is a possibility that I might be made redundant at the end of the year but it is probably not going to happen However if it does happen and I have to make a claim for JSA I will have been in my present job for 2 years and 2 months will I qualify for contribution based JSA even if my savings are over 16k and how long…
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My local council tell my wife she has been put in the support group
My wife has been battling to get from the wrag group into the support group for about a year, she was placed in the wrag on the incapacity changeover, she put in a mandatory reconsideration request straight away for her claim to be looked at again which took them a year to complete ( not an appeal ) as they wanted a WCA…
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working on a zero hour contract?
Just looking for some advice, my partner works at Mcdonalds on a zero hour flexible contract. He usually does get quite a few hours a week and has the option to cover peoples shifts etc if he wants.Just wondering if we would be able to claim for working tax (we already get child tax). Lately he has been working around 25…
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Help with benefits
Hi, Firstly I have tried using benefit calculators and looking at various sites to see what we are entitled to but have not been able to figure out what we are entitled to. This regards me and my partner who has MCTD and some other auto immune diseases. Because of her illnesses I can't quiet figure out what we are entitled…
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Better off without pay rise and claiming working tax credits?
Hi, I am currently receiving working tax credits as I am on a low income. I receive just over 50 pounds a week. My employer has told me they may give me a pay rise in a couple of months which will result in me earning about an extra 25 pounds a week but then I might not be entitled to working tax credits as I think I will…
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housing benefit ?
My husband of 11 yrs has just announced he would like me to leave our marital home,he had bought the property a year before I moved in and the mortgage is in his name only hes a very unreasonable person and as I only earn 780 a month cannot see how I can rent a property to live in,does anybody know if I can claim housing…
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Child care vouchers have a I got my figures right?
Both working parents, one works 37.5 hrs at £30500(this is figure after salary sacrifice for pension), other works 30hr week at £11563. Childcare costs we've estimated at £510 month for 30hrs week required. So as basic rate tax payers if we both claim child care vouchers we can claim £243 a month each. So £243x0.7(tax and…
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Trying to get hold of E401 from Child Benefit office
Hello! Here's an issue that I really don't know how to solve, I hope that someone here can point me in the right direction... I live together with my partner and our daughter in the UK, and earlier this year I started working for a company in Luxembourg. Of course, this means that I pay social security in Lux, and benefit…
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4 week run on... help?
hi, we currently get a small amount of working tax credit towards childcare, however we are soon going to stop childcare and therefore we will no longer qualify for any WTC. Will we get the 4 week run on? Also, what will happen if we then put our baby in childcare after a few months? if we get the run on, will this cause…
