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ATOS Evidence
I have completed my ESA50 form and have gathered some evidence including a supporting letter from my GP, thank goodness, which is due to be sent back tomorrow (allowing a week for it to reach them). The problem is, all my evidence and form will not fit in the envelope supplied. Can I use a bigger envelope? Addressing it to…
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Disability bus pass
I get support rate ESA and high rate daily living rate of PIP with lower rate mobility PIP. Is there a travel card I can get to help with the cost of travel?
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Pension Credits what to do.
Now I am still sifting through all my mother in laws spending woes. Thats another story. I am now assesing her actual income and am worried and not sure how to proceed. She gets Pension guaranteed credit income of £47.17 weekly from DWP on her bank statement. Now I cannot locate any paperwork as to how this figure has been…
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DLA Mandatory reconsideration 9 months!!!!!
Just wondering if anyone can help. My son has been receiving DLA mid rate care since October 2012. We did push for night time care needs and therefore high rate care but were told that his needs were not enough more than a child with no disability so he was only awarded mid rate. We accepted this. We then received a…
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Tax credit hrs and driving
Hi I'm self employed and work 16 hrs at various houses throughout the day I count my hrs from when I'm at someone's house but it's been suggested by a friend that that my hours start when I leave my house as I'm not just travelling to 1 place of work. Can anyone advice to save a long wait on the phone to tax credits lol…
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50 year old in part time work?
Would they be get any help/benefits? 18 hours on just over £7.00 a hour? Have tried to look myself but am getting confused! Thanks in advance.
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ESA50 form completion
Hi I have done a claim for ESA contrib based an I have received the Limited capability for work questionnaire. Please can someone share some guidance with the form completion. In short I am suffering with severe anxiety and depression following my own redundancy and my wife's sudden death in Dec 14.I am also now a single…
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Leaving work voluntarily for JSA
Hi all, I really hope someone could help me. I'm new to this forum so hopefully its posted in the right place. I'm currently working at a temporary/ agency job which has no ending date and no notice period. Basically they could get rid of me tomorrow without any notice. The place I work is 2 and a half hours away from my…
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Tax Credits working two jobs
I'm just after some advice re tax credits, both myself and partner work full time in minimum wage jobs. My partner also works a second job for a few hours on a weekend. We have a child, but are fortunate that we don't have to pay for childcare. Does anyone know if we would be better off if he didn't work the second job? I…
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Tax credit overpayment - help!!!
I Had a letter from tax credits over a year a go saying that I owed them £5,600 from one tax year for child care payments (I would like to add here that i was entitled to help as living as a single working parent and you dont even get that much help in one year). I wrote to tax credits explaining that this must be a…
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Potential benefit fraud
Hi guys First post here so go easy on me! I'm not really one to moan, but benefit fraud is a massive pet hate of mine how some people get away with it! Anyway, my partners ex-boyfriend, of whom they had 2 children together, is currently living rent-free at his parent's house and works full time earning typically around…
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ESA and DLA - am i entitled to severe disability premium? advice!
hi all, i am a single disabled adult, and have been claiming DLA at Mid Rate Care, higher mobility since a child. also living with mum. i have also claimed (for roughly 2 years, since an appeal) ESA support group, with enhanced disability premium applied. i have had my latest atos medical etc and have just finished the…
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Worried about changes!
Hi. Hoping someone might know, I am struggling so badly, hubby lost job, and things have hit a new low moneywise. We have been receiving JSA, and our Child Tax Creds are monthly. I cannot stretch these out anymore over a month, and I want to change my tax creds from monthly to weekly. My next payment is Tue 10th Feb, so…
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Closing JSA claim. Making a new ESA claim
How do I go about this? I know I need to get a sicknote and claim esa after ive closed jsa claim. How long does it take on average to start getting esa? Just getting quite depressed going to the job centre every week same old story and seem to be going no where. Its hard out there trying to find work. I struggle with my…
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Where to send ESA form
Where do you send an ESA claim form to? Trying to find the address is driving me up the wall. ~ Thanks
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Please help me get back in the system
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Two month sick note and esa
My daughter has put in a claim for esa. She sent the initial form off about a week ago and a sick note today. But the sick note says 2 months on it. What happens after that? She's been diagnosed with ocd and trauma and is still under assessment for Aspergers. She won't leave the house on her own and will only go out with…
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Tax credits - childcare
Hi everyone. From April my childcare costs will decrease so need to inform tax credits. I was wondering if someone could give me a informed estimate as to how much I'll be likely to receive each week, please? £490 per month to registered childminder from April (1 child). Pay for 2014/15 tax year - c.14,000. 40 hours per…
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working tax credits
Hi am just wondering.....starting a job on monday was claiming income support along with child tax credits obviously coming of income support when i start was wondering when i apply for working tax credits will my child tax credits stop or carry on till working tax sorted or do i have to reclaim it along with wtc thank you
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Estranged from husband and struggling financially
My mum who is in her lateseventies is living alone in Wales and beginning to struggle financially. She owns her own home(thankfully)! She has limited money insaving and has no income other than her state pension. She is estranged (not divorced) from myfather who lives overseas who isn’t contactable, but most likely not…
