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Cash gifts whilst on benefits?
I am on housing benefit and in the ESA support group. My mum has recently come into money from PPI. She has over the last few months given me money, but also has asked me to order things for her, lent me some money which I have paid back already, and paid me a sum of money that she owed me as she had a lot of items with…
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Child and Working tax
Hi, Can anyone please advise me, I am in the process of leaving my partner and moving back in with my parents till i can get things sorted. I have 3 children What im wanting to know is 1. Can i claim tax credits if im living with my parents. 2. What years income would be used for the new claim 2015/2016 income or 2017/2018…
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Claiming Universal Credit after losing agency work
Hello, I've looked for similar threads but can't find any quite similar enough so I decided to start a new one. Sorry if this has.been covered thoroughly before. Basically I found a temporary agency job just over a week ago so I put my Universal Credit claim "on hold" while working. Sadly I've already had two sick days and…
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Carers Benefit
Does any one know if you leave a job (which does not allow few enough hours to enable caring) to become a full time carer whether there is a waiting period before you are eligible to get this? If so does it make a difference to how long the wait is whether your employer ends your contract of employment or whether you end…
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Capital - ESA
Hi My aunt is in receipt of means benefit, ESA. She is struggling with her health and may be moving into my own home. (mortgaged) She currently owns her own property. (mortgaged) How would this affect her benefits as she would have capital? She owns a small share in the property with an ex partner who still resides there.…
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In ESA support group but asked again for med certificate?
Hi all, It looks like this is a pretty common thing but all info online was a bit dated so would be grateful for any advice. I was put in the ESA support group on Feb and was told I had been given 18 months in the group. At the time it was awarded, I also received a request for a new medical certificate in the post. I…
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Stopped claiming Job seekers half way through dental treatment
Apologies if this is in the wrong section but this is the first time I have posted on a forum, sorry! My partner and I were both claiming income based job seekers allowance, he made an appointment at our dentist because his tooth cracked in half, and after his first appointment they decided he needed a crown, he told them…
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Working Tax Credit Failure - What can I do, urgently?
My circumstances changed three months ago and I claimed Working Tax Credits. I filled in all the forms, posted them immediately, heard nothing. Follow-up phone calls to HMRC only resulted in me being told that my claim was 'under investigation' and that no further information was available. One day, I spoke to a very…
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Friend struggling with ESA application and housing benefit
Ok he has mental health problems and was sectioned 18 months ago, he suffers anxiety and its hard enough getting him to fill in forms but finally he got ESA claim in and got backdated sick notes from doctor. Its been about 6 weeks now and he hasn't heard from ESA, and hes also struggling filling in his housing benefit form…
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Eligibility for UC - Housing Costs where 6 months rent has been paid upfront.
If a typical single claimant were somehow to pay six months rent upfront for a new property, would they still qualify for the standard housing cost element under Universal Credit for that same period? Thanks.
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University and PIP
Hey, I am new to PIP and would like information regarding reporting changes to DWP. Is it required to report changes ? So if I was to start Collage/University/Work/Volunteer ect.. am I required inform PIP ? Appreciate your responses . Thank you
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ESA and NHS pension
Hi All, I am on ESA Income related (IR), get PIP ENH mobility, Standard care (reduced after Atos exam !). I get ESA SG and SDA allowance for me and OH. I have the means to accept a NHS pension worked all my life but just a small NHS service pension. Can anyone tell me how much I would lose if I accepted a pension of…
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Big drop in income and tax credit entitlement
Hi all I'm hoping that someone that's been in the same boat as us might be able to help. We are a couple who between us earn £47k a year. Unfortunately my wife, who is the main breadwinner is suffering chronic headaches and is currently undergoing hospital treatment for these. Due to this she is unable to continue with her…
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Atos home visit
Just had my Home f2f with Atos She was a lovely English Nurse she seemed to really understand how my conditions affects me. It seemed to go really well but as ive read on these forums it can all go very wrong. Have to wait and see.
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One service sale, tax or register?
Hi all, I hope I'm writing on the correct place and if you could help me with my question. I have made a photographic service for my girlfriend boss. It was a one time, and he paid me £200 cash. He said an invoice was not necessary so I did not worry about it. Now she is moving to another job, and they are getting her some…
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DWP not received face to face report yet
Hi I had my face to face last Friday 19th may I called today and they have still not received my face to face report from capita is this normal?
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Universal Credit - Working family
Hi So I've complete my Tax Credit Renewal and whilst I had all my figures together, I thought I'd punch them all in to "Entitled To". The website fed back that my family and I are missing out on £28 per week HB. I thought winner!! So off I pop over to my council website to submit a claim. I discovered that in order to…
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First payslip - no tax! Why?
Hi! Sorry if this is a question that gets asked a lot - i've googled & read a lot of articles but i'm still a bit confused. i started a new job on the last monday of the month, and was paid on the last thursday. i handed in my p45 from my old job (which i finished the week before) on the wednesday in between, so i doubt…
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Child Benefit
Apologies, if this is not the right forum! My wife and I live together, she has four children, 2 are from a previous partner and we have 2 together. My wife claims child benefit for all 4. She has 27 years of the 30 she needs of Pension contributions (she has worked since 17), I only have 23 as I missed 3 years whilst in…
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JSA - Misled and cheated by DWP, HMRC and JCP
So I recently returned to the UK from abroad and imported my benefit for 3 months from another EU country and was paid by my former countries social office for benefits for 3 month but as condition had to register with JCP which I did and had to attend an appointment with them every 2-3 weeks to just show I'd be looking…