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WTC ESA Help
Hi all, I am self employed (low income) and claiming Tax Credits, however I had a serious accident at work and have had to claim ESA (contributions based), my question is do I have to notify WTC that I am now on ESA or do the computers communicate? I am under a consultant for my head injury, currently awaiting an MRI and…
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Non-Dependant Deductions for Housing Benefit.
Hi Everyone. I am not clear about the rules regarding non-dependant deductions in relation to Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit and was wondering if anyone could provide any assistance. Firstly, are the rules for non-dependant deductions applicable to all councils or can councils set their own rules? For example,…
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Tax reclaim - does this affect benefits?
Good afternoon all, My wife has just been successful in a complaint case against Lloyds and is in receipt of small sum following the mis-sale of two ISA investments. Within the calculations, a large part of the money is made up of gross interest payments from the time of sale until now. It appears she has been taxed on…
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Attendance Allowance and Carers Allowance
Hope somebody can clarify this for me. My stepfather has recently been diagnosed with dementia and my mother has a heart condition. She claims attendance allowance as she needs help with washing her hair, getting dressed etc, which my stepfather did for her but is now not capable of doing. The question is my stepsister is…
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Housing Benefit - couple of quick questions
Good morning all! Just have a couple of quick questions regarding Housing Benefit and Local Housing Allowance. I hope this is in the right place as the Housing Benefit sub forums last post was 2012, so though I'd post here. I work a full time job in a school ( term time only) so my income is only around 9.5k per annum…
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ESA money is disregarded as capital?
I have read this and I am confused: Is this out of date? Or does the money I receive from ESA never count as capital? Does it count as capital if someone saves all of their ESA money (>£6000)? Also, do ESA arrears have the '52 weeks not capital' safety clause? Thank you.
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If you though UJM was bad .....
Just been reading about the potential replacement for UJM. The site, called Avantajobs. Unlike Universal Job Match, Advantajobs has no option to opt-out of allowing your adviser to see what you have been up to. The site also requires your adviser to sign you up in the Job Centre. The mere fact that there is no opt-out…
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ESA Appeal advice if I lose
My ESA appeal is coming up. Basically failed WCA from IB to ESA transition. If I win I know I'll have a few weeks wait for my outstanding payments to be paid. :j If I lose :( then barring an upper tribunal appeal - of which I don't think I could cope with mentally - I would like to know how long would I have to claim JSA &…
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Help please!!
As the title suggests I am in need of advice, my husband has decided to take a career change from IT to becoming a bus driver, he has been miserable for 15 years in the industry and has decided it's time to change. He has now been offered the job. It is a big drop in money, over £20k a year.... I had started an…
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Universal Credit advice!
Hi, How is everyone doing this evening? I'm new and I have been a lerker for quite a while but I signed up as I need some advice. On 13.01.2015, I made the claim for Universal Credit online and now it's all sorted but I am just wondering, is there any sort of emergency help? I am not expecting to get my 1st payment of…
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Help with tax??
I'm 18 years old and recently started doing webcam work, freelance modelling and I also have online sugar daddies from all over the world who send me money through paypal that I transfer to my bank account! I started doing webcam shows last month and I still haven't registered for tax and I'm afraid that I'll get fined.…
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Working Tax Credits
A two part query.... 1) I got a letter before Christmas from Concentrix saying that I had been selected at random for a check (I'm self employed), so I duly sent all the info off to them, but have heard precisely nothing back from them at all. Does anyone have any idea as to how long Concentrix normally sit with these…
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Sick to death of being scared of UC - Can anyone actually tell me what is going on?
I am doing as much research as I can to try and figure out what the hell is going on with UC and how it will affect me, but cannot seem to find any concrete information. I imagine a lot of people on these boards are in a similar boat to myself - self employed with a school age child. I'm also a single parent. I had a…
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Tax credits check
Hi, I have had a letter telling me that tax credits are checking my award as they think my payments may be wrong. Because of my salary I get no tax credits and no working tax credits yet I do qualify for Childcare element. This is what they seem to be querying, they want me to send them my contract, ofstead number, proof…
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Direct payments for disabled child care - affecting benefits
My daughter has just had a core assesment done and I have been advised that to get the current level of care I was getting for her which the local authority was providing ( and are now taking away ) I would have to apply for direct payments When asked if this would affect my benefits ( I get carers allowance as full time…
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7 year old Son receiving a pension in Lieu of maintenance
Hi can anyone on here help please? My daughter has 2 children both to different fathers and in october last year one of he fathers died suddenly. She had been receiving a voluntary maintenance payment from both the fathers and all was going ok with her child and working tax credits. My daughter received a letter last week…
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my tax credit over payment ..
i applied for tax credits last year, just as my husband became ill but we assumed he would soon be well enough to go back to work so applied for tax credits instead of esa. We were awarded £7 a fortnight... anyway we then applied for ESA as he wasnt getting any better. He was awarded contribution based ESA, I immediately…
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NI contributions / Savings > 16K?
[FONT="]I was recently made redundant. I have not paid NI contributions for the last five years as I was working in the offshore industry and not paid out of the UK. With my redundancy payment I have savings in excess of 16K. [/FONT] [FONT="] [/FONT] [FONT="]Due to not having payed NI contributions for the last…
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How to cancel Housing Benefit for aunt
My (pension credit) aunt and her disabled daughter lost their husband/father 2 years ago and I've decided after some thought to ask her to move in with me as I don't feel comfortable with them being alone - she's getting older and I think she's lonely. How will her council view this and will they ask her to pay back the…
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P60 and PaySlip
I'm self employed and made a loss this year but thats by the by although I thought I could deduct any loss from my wifes annual salary figure when submitting my Tax Credit Application. I'm looking at the wifes P60 for 13/14 and for examples sake it says: Salary Total for year £14,126, Final Tax Code 944L, however on her…
