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Will Equity realease affect my benefits and Pension credit
Hello all I am a 68 yr. old man . A pensioner and in receipt of Pension Credit. In May of next year, I will need to redeem my Mortgage OF £174,000.. I have no way of repaying this other that the possibility of Equity released as I have a house worth around £360,000. I stress I would ONLY use any Equity Release to repay my…
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DWP Refund
DWP have placed two Rfd into my account. Yet the normal monthly allowance is right. £28.52 and £6.28. Hav they made a mistake I ought to be writing to them? Regards DLA
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Claiming new style ESA after carers allowance.
Can any of you experts advise please. If someone has been claiming carers allowance for many years and has to stop caring ( carers allowance cancelled) due to terminal illness, can that person then claim new style ESA based on NI contributions credited whilst being a carer? Thanks.
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P46, Universal Credit and 1 day of work
Hello - wondered if anyone can help me with this. I'm about to start a new job on Monday but out of Statements A, B or C on the HMRC P46 form I'm not sure whether to tick A or B. I have been claiming Universal Credit for a month (but UC isn't listed). Since April I haven't had a job but I did earn money for 1 day working…
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Tax Rebate
Hi guys. Hope everyone is well. I've got a question which I've contacted Universal Credit about and none of them knnew the answer. Me and my partner currently have a joint UC claim. She works I don't. I've just received a tax rebate from last year and was wondering how they'll work out what to take. We receive around…
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Post-Pandemic Work Arrangements - What is reasonable to request?
Dear all, Looking for some general advice, insights, and suggestions! During the pandemic, my employer closed the office. The supermajority of my colleagues are client-facing, so will likely work from client sites, which was the normal MO pre-pandemic, however, my role within the company has changed to an "internal" role,…
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Extra nursery hours
Hello all my son is 2, 3 in January and the health visitor says he's showing signs of a delay (with speach and drawing a straight line lol) not sure what element it comes under but it's one whole thing he's failing on or not quite up to speed with, he's had a hearing test come back 100% (HV referrd us to audiology) He's…
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New Style ESA Claim - gone wrong ?
I filled in the ESA claims form on-line, 3 weeks ago and am still waiting for confirmation of my entitlement and have not yet even supplied a fit note I have now found that, according to my on-line HMRC tax account - I am due to receive £4325 pa in ESA payments - although no payment has yet been received This is weird -…
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Child benefit higher earnings
Is anyone in this situation? My partner received a letter saying he owes £3800 in child benefit overpayment for the last 7 years, they want it by the end of the month. Trying to get on the phone is impossible. How do we appeal this? We were made aware earlier in the year he was over the earnings limit so I stopped…
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Challenging an overpayment of tax credits
Hello, Can anyone help with the following situation: I've just received an overpayment demand for £1,200 and am disputing it because I informed them of when I changed jobs in Jan 2019. (Sent them a letter within a month of starting) which they confirmed they received. They have told me that the overpayment stems from the…
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Salery sacrifice and effect on universal credit
I am in need of some help, I have applied to get a car through the nhs car lease scheme. But I also get universal credit and I was wondering if the car lease scheme will have an effect on my universal credit payments.
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DWP online chat?
Is there such a thing as DWP online chat? HMRC do have one
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Universal credit
Hi all My wife is coming to the end of her 6 months job seekers allowance and is presumably about to go onto universal credit and I have been on the government calculator and because of my wages and our savings as we are both also over 50 and have also always worked she is due nothing. Little bit annoyed as she has always…
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DWP overpayment recovery
Hello, Does anyone know if for example, esa have given an underpayment of £5000, UC want all of this as an overpayment if we can offer £4,000 now and pay the remainder 1K off of our ongoing benefits at 100Pm. We still have some expensive credit we could do with paying off that we took out due to receiving less benefit than…
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Esa payment dates help
If my friend is paid her ESA on the 7th of July, can anyone tell me what period that fortnightly payment would be for please. I understand its paid in arrears but is this usually a payment of 2 weeks arrears paid 1 week later? I think this could be payment for 16th to 22nd June and 23rd June to 29th - anyone have any idea…
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Tax Credits Renewal and Pension Contribution Deductions
Hello I am going through the online Tax Credits renewal pages but cannot work out where to put the pension contribution deduction. I am retired and have no work income. I have some bank interest income and some dividend income. I contributed £2880 to the private pension and received £3600 back after the tax was added. Does…
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New style ESA – National Insurance contributions tests
My wife has been placed in the ESA support group. Her
national insurance contribution record / working history has been patchy over
recent years due to her disability. Currently she receives national insurance credits only and
we are looking if there is any way she could be eligible for ESA payments. (A
task made more…
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Furlough Relative Paid Incorrectly?
One of my relatives has been on the 80% furlough scheme. Over a month ago she was called back to work flexible hours on an as needed basis ie 2 hours here and there or even days at a time (whilst still getting the 80% from the Government). She got her wages this month and they only paid them a token amount of under 20 quid…
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