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Carers allownace limit
Hi I am trying to work out the monthly figure for carers allowance, i know it is £116.00 a week, but how do you work it out to get an average monthly figure? I read somewhere that it is worked out over a 5 week month, i would be very grateful if someone could advise me as to what the earnings figure would be. Many thanks.
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Does Universal Credit include JSA?
I am currently out of work. Own a house (paying off mortgage), so do I look at Universal Credit or Jobseekers Allowance and other benefits separately?
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Inheritence query?
Hi Not sure how to use these boards- please advise if I've got this wrong I don't know how to start a new question! My 70 year Mother in law lives in a rented council house, has only state pension and housing benefits as her income with zero savings. She is due to receive a small inheritance of just under £5400. I assume…
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PIP Form Sent Off o_O
Had my form filled in today at local Advice Works.. She said that at current rate I'll be looking at about 6 weeks before getting called for a medical (don't really mind when, though would prefer it not take forever lol) so just a waiting game now! Had made up some mock answers on separate sheets of paper as a guide to go…
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ESA: Confused and dont know what to do next
Hi, I'm currently on long term sick after an accident at work in June 2016. I broke my knee really bad and have had 2 operations on it in the last year the second being 3 weeks ago, I have been on SSP, then moved over to ESA before my 2nd operation I had an examination with DWP where results have shown I was fit for some…
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Help Child Tax Credits and Personal pension Contributions
Hi we recently received our updated tax credits and noticed a big reduction which we established was due to the fact we took a lump sum from my pension increasing our joint income. Since then I found out you can add any personal pension contributions you make and this can increase your CTC payments by effectively reducing…
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Tax credit cut
Hi guys Last year I got a second job ... I did call the tax credits line and my payments went down a bit (not as much as expected so I have been saving a bit each month) Well come April my payments almost halved. I completed my review online and have checked online and my next payment will be a little bit more than the…
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Is my dad lying
I have just recent move out of my family home and my dad says that I need to give the council my new home address and work place and if I don't they will evict my mum and 3 young siblings. I don't trust him and since am not at home I have to give my address over the phone for him to pass to the council. The house is in my…
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Can I keep my council flat if I inherit money?
I live in a council flat and receive benefits and disability allowances. I have received a substantial inheritance, and will, of course, no longer claim benefits... but will I have to leave my council flat? The inheritance would not be enough to buy myself a home....
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Benefits... HB
So my partners in the army... home 2 nights/week and lives away the rest of the time. We treat both our income as joint as we're together and both pay his and our rented house bills jointly. Also jointly claim tax credits. Just wondering if for the purpose of housing benefit and council tax deduction whether im classed as…
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Enhanced Mobility PIP for Aspergers
Hi, since the government changed the rules on mobility to rule out psychological distress. Does anyone know if you can still get enhanced mobility for Aspergers? We're currently waiting on an assessment date for PIP and my husband only had his official diagnosis of Aspergers yesterday. It doesn't change how he's affected,…
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Care home stay & Direct Payments
I will try and keep this short, since the 23/12/16 my mum has either been in hospital, Rehabilition care home or a care home on respite, she was at home for 16 days in February, and the since 19th March she has been in a care home awaiting a decision from social service that she can be funded. My question is should my mum…
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New style esa and travel abroad
I have an esa claim under asessment. It is new style contributions based only. It appears that it is only paid for 4 weeks abroad. I cannot figure out over what period. Per year? Per visit? The guy taking the claim was unable to answer. My plan is to spend about 6-8 weeks in spain over the rest of the year. This will be…
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For UC my projected income needs to be at least 1000 but UC stops when I earn 500
The 500 is probably because I don't rent or have any children. But it seems a bit odd that my business needs to be projecting to earn 1000 a month, but once I earn over 500 a month the UC amount goes to nothing. Is this right?
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Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) reducing
Hi folks, Just a heads up to say the Support for Mortgage Interest is reducing from 3.12% to 2.61% from 18th of June 2017. This will effect anyone getting help with the interest on their mortgages via DWP benefits. The letters will start to go out to confirm this in the next week or so. This is due to the Bank of England…
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Advice Tax Credit
My partner gradually stayed over in to our home which he is only on the mortgage for. This is from Jan - April and we decided as from 23rd April he was to move in permantley and start contributing towards bills. I know I have still 30days to notify any change and called up and was told to call an other number. As it was a…
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Benefits applications and salary sacrifice
Does anybody know when entering my salary for benefit applications, whether I should be entering my salary before or after salary sacrifice? It makes substantial differences to the amount awarded but the accompanying documentation never mentions this. I specifically want to know about salary sacrifice for pension reasons…
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Bank Overdraft Charges You Were Unaware Of On Benefits
If you end up with a bank OD charge and it is not a frequent thing at all, you can ask your bank to remove the charges. They may or may not do this, if they do it is a goodwill gesture and not to do with an Act as I had posted previously if you seen the original post.
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ESA benefi questions - would anyone be able to answer these questions for my parents?
Hi, If anyone can help me with the below questions for my patents i would really appreciate it please! 1) If you finished work at 60 then at age 63 became ill and was not fit for work could you claim contributions based ESA until state pension age 65 taking into account you had not paid any National insurance for 3 years?…
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Claiming PIP or ESA for heart condition
I'm enquiring on behalf of a relative who has recently been diagnosed with a heart condition. Been told by doctors to completely rest, no physical chores at all. Relative is mid thirties, self employed, (manual work) and has partner (working full time) & 2 school age children. Obviously, relative cannot work at present;…
