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Child Benefit
The child benefit I receive for my 13 year old daughter suddenly stopped in aug 19 and unfortunately due to a chaotic year of moving three times I didn’t notice until recently! They have said that it’s because my address was not updated and as a result I therefore didn’t respond to their correspondence. (Went to wrong…
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Compancy Car Scheme
I am currently looking at the option of taking out a car on my company's salary sacrifice scheme. I am also in receipt currently of child tax credits due to my income and being a single parent. I am trying to work out what impact this will have on my tax credits award and whether this is a viable financial option for me.…
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Redundancy, tax credits and UC
Apologies if this has come up before, I’m at risk of redundancy, I’m currently in receipt of WTC and CTC to top up my income however if I do lose my job I’m worried that I will have to move onto UC which I’m not eligible for and as a single parent I’m very worried that I will have no money coming in and won’t be able to…
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UC backdated?
Is Universal Credit backdated? My daughter did not think she would be entitled to it as her husband still earning through furlough. But has just started a claim and checked through entitled2 and it looks like she may be eligible for a payment. Can this be backdated from when she stopped earning at the end of March? thank…
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ESA Help Needed
HelloI've been on New Style JSA and switching to New Style ESA as I was recently awarded Pip on enhanced and my GP has done fit notea) Please can somebody tell me what descriptor fits Sciatica. I get sharp pins needles standing long periods in both legs and cannot do repetitive tasks such as lifting all the the same…
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Tax free childcare
Hello all. Quick question if you can help? Our little one will be going to nursery next month for the first time. She is 14 months old. We need to set up a tax free childcare account. My hubby earns 32k pa and i earn about £800 pcm. Who should set up the account? Thanks for helping a newbie.
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Tax credits renewed-overpayment says £.... is an adjustment to put your record right. Help please
I had an overpayment on tax credits (self employed estimated income incorrectly). I have been paying this back through collections form my award. last year when I renewed (2018/2019) the letter said Overpayment. How much debt there is, how much I had paid off and £.... has already been collected back from later awards This…
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Can I claim?
I am employed as a key worker and have been working all through the pandemic. Recently, I have had a couple of trips to hospital following collapsing at home and have had to have a heart monitor implanted. As a result of this, I am not allowed to drive and the DVLA have been made aware. As I drive for my job I also cannot…
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Can I claim UC alongside £151.20 per week SMP?
Hi, Sorry if I have posted in the wrong place. Will be going on Mat Leave as of January (all being well, fingers crossed). DH is in a fairly low paid job (nets approx. £1100 per month) and 6 weeks after going on Mat Leave, after the 90%, I will be getting the £151.20 per week SMP. Our rent/bills is just under DH’s monthly…
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Budgeting Loan
Hi there, I received a budgeting loan back at the end of February to which I am paying back at £25 a fortnight but I received a letter to say that I no longer have to pay the loan back as of the middle of June. Has anyone else had a similar letter? I was just wondering why I now don’t need to pay it back?
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Universal Credit Work Allowance for a couple?
So I can't find a definitive answer to this, I have looked through forums and online all morning. Is the Universal Credit Couples Work allowance of £512.00, per person in the couple or combined? So if combined it would mean they had a maximum work allowance of £256.00 each? I'm trying to work out how much surplus earnings…
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Benefits help! Am I entitled to anything?
I was due to start a job as a primary school teacher in September however my partner and I have recently found out we are expecting who is due in October. I have been a full time student for the last year and have had no income and I have no savings. My partner works full time and earns £30,000 a year before tax and…
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Working Tax Credits Renewal
I renewed my Tax Credits online back in April when I first got the paperwork having done my tax return for (19/20) it said it would be completed by 17th June 2020. Spoke to an advisor online this morning and they are now saying renewals wont be done til after the cut off on 31st July . Has anyone had it renewed yet ? Ive…
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Need help, inspo and if eligible x
I work for a school but my child attends a different school. Her school have no space for her to return..yes that is true, even though I'm a key worker. My child has special needs but recieves no help and can't come to my school as again full up and only reception have space. Work have offered choice to take her in but…
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Universal Credit While Ebay Selling
I am on universal credit unemployed and at the same time I have a hobby which is collecting a certain type of collectable, which I also have a personal collection of. I have been buying and selling these frequently during the last month and sometimes I make a profit from this. As far as I have researched, my situation…
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Trouble opening tax free childcare account
My wife and I currently get the 30 hours free childcare for our youngest child, and our eldest uses after school childcare, so we have a childcare user account on the government website set up. However, when we set up the 30 hours free we opted out of the tax free childcare aspect. We now want to apply for the tax free…
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Seiss and Universal Credit
I submitted my earnings today to Universal Credit website and was surprised to find as I received just over £1,500 under the self employed grant last month I'm not due any UC this month. Does anyone know how long this would go on for? Is it until the grant is paid back? Never realised before!
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Posting PIP form
This feels like a really stupid question but if I want to send my PIP form back with Signed For postage do I have to use a different envelope? The back page of the form itself has the address which I guess has the barcode for the prepaid postage, so would I have to use a different envelope without a window to negate that…
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Matternity allowance return postage
HI I dropped my matternity allowance return letter in a red postbox wondering if it will be delivered? Did I had to go to post office to post it? Address is Wrexham Maternity AllowanceMail Handling Site AWolverhamptonWV98 1SU It has no return address. What happens with unpaid letters? I'm afraid now it won't get delivered!…
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ESA CLAIM
Hello and I hope all are well. Friend of my friend and not the best timeline. He lives alone and nobody claims CA on his behalf. Owns house that he inherited approx 3 years ago when his mother passed. He receives PIP only. He had ESA with SDP prior to inheriting house and money that put him over threshold. DWP told him he…
