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Benefits & tax credits

Archives for August 2019

Stopping income related ESA
Hello. I'm looking for some advice for a friend. She has just got married and has been informed that her IR ESA will be stopping. She has just recived her ESA3 form through the post. My question is that is this okay for the DWP to do? She has never worked as she is still very young (23) and has quite a few medical…
Universal Credit
Hi I'm in need of a bit of advice if anyone is able to help! My UC Payment is usually paid on the 1st of each month. But this month they have not issued a statement of payment and as the 1st Sept is a Sunday the payment is usually made a few days before. This has not happened. I have been contact with them over the last…
PIP Tribunal Question
Hi the tribunal service received my husbands appeal against PIP in May they wrote to the DWP for a response and asked them for all information they hold on my husband. My husband received a letter today stating the DWP have not responded and want him to send a copy of all PIP letters he has. Has anyone else been in this…
unexpected tax credit payment
Has anyone else had one? I only noticed late last night so unable to call them. I had recently made them aware of my husband's drop in income this year and they adjusted my payments and sent me through a letter yesterday which matches my schedule of payments on the government gateway, I just don't know where or why this…
Working from home
Hi I'm full-time PAYE employee of a national company. Because of the nature of my job, I am based at home and drive to meet clients in a30 mile range. I do not have a company car, but have to have decent broadband at home to acess company files etc. Question is, are there any tax allowance(s) I can claim by being…
Moving from IS to UC with a power of attorney - help please:)
I'm power of attorney for a friend who has autism and borderline personality disorder. Their benefit letters come to me and I receive Carers Allowance for them. They're moving closer to me, and moving local authority area so have to move to Universal credit from Income Support (they are definitely on IS and not ESA). As I…
Don't understand PIP and blue badge eligibility
My son has got PIP since 2016, he had originally scored 4 for Planning and following a journey and 0 for moving around. He has diagnosis of Autism , severe anxiety and depression. He suffers panic attacks and anxiety meaning he cannot leave the house alone, he has psychiatric and psychology input. When the Pip was re…
Tax credits/universal credit help
Hi guys advice needed please. Basically i applied for uc lasy week as i had recently been made redundant from work. I have a partner and 3 children. Yesterday i recieved a letter from tax credits stating that because i have made a claim for uc my tax credits claim has stopped. The problem i have is that i wasnt aware i had…
Selling Flat moving in to my Mum's after passing away
Hi Selling Flat moving in to my Mum's after passing away. I will have about £63000. Mum's needs work doing to it, will the dwp give me 24 weeks before they stop my benefit ESA. Thanks for any answers.
Help with Free School Transport
Hi all, i hope to get some advice on how to challenge a decision from Lincolnshire County Council refusal to grant free transport for my son. When we moved to the area last year my daughter was Allocated a place in school by the council as we moved mid term. She was granted free transport, I can’t remember though on what…
Being overpaid but DWP disagree...
I've told them twice now that I don't want PIP but then they keep sending the money into my account, I don't need the help right now, but the situation might change in the next 2/3 months. And it takes so long on the phone to get through to them. I've got extra money, they keep sending, and saying it's for backdated…
Any help I can get? 23, on zero hrs contract no shifts for 3 weeks
Sorry this is long. Hi does anyone if there’s any support I can get for the lack of shifts at work? I usually get around 30hrs per week but for the past 3 weeks I haven’t been scheduled any. It’s due to moving work place, I work for the same company but have been working in another city and have just recently transferred…
Universal Credit Appeal Help
On two different occassions, Universal Credit underpaid me. I am a company director and I am registered as an employee of my company. What my RTI said I earned was completely different to what they said I earned. They had a higher number than I RTI report stated. This is what they said; Although you have provided bank…
Housing Benefit Overpayment
Hi There, I have just left my 6 month rented property after the landlord decided he wanted to sell. I thought that I was going to get a 12 month lease after the initial 6 months was up. I really didnt want to move so soon as I have a little girl and moving is tough. The problem is that when I signed the lease I had to pay…
Council tax court summons
Hello Can anyone please provide me with some reassurance? Innocently, albeit naively, I left the council tax in the hands of my partner. I have just received a letter summoning me to Magistrates Court for non payment of council tax. This is the first I personally have heard of it, with the summons being addressed to me…
Carers allowance while on ESA
just need advise, im in reciept of ESA support group and my partner is in reciept of pip daily living standard (no mobility component) i've been told i can claim an underlying entitlement to carers allowance for her £36.85 a week or something? that will be added to my ESA? is this correct? i've applied for carers allowance…
Tax credits
Can anyone help, I'm moving in with my boyfriend, what questions will hmrc ask, I'm a single parent atm and I have to ring them to stop my claim bcoz my circumstances will change, will they want any personal details like partners address or partners details even if im not going onto make a fresh claim as we will be over…
Advice for a friend please.
Hi, I know nothing about this but I thought you might be able to help. My friend has just had her allowances cut by around £800 a month. She has a son who is stage 2 autistic. I shall quote what she has said. "Was getting dla for my son and carers but then they changed dla to pip and now they say he doesn't fit there…
Contribtion based ESA after SSP has run out
Claims for cont based ESA (new style) can be made after SSP has run out (28 weeks i believe?). Can you claim for cont based ESA after SSP has been exhausted, but you are still getting employer sick pay? As on cont based benefit, you can have income coming in. so i think this is possible as long as you get evidence that the…
Benefit help needed..ill health
Hello everyone, I have just joined this site and hoping some people maybe able to offer me some advice about which benefit i can claim due to ill health? My condition is now affecting my everday life and making life harder for me. I had no idea i maybe able to claim, would it be pip, esa or universal credit?? Its all so…

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