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UC making up my earnings amount so they dont have to pay me.
i was made to migrate from working tax credits to uc in 2024. after 1 year they are now mandatorily making my take-home pay figure £1,642.72 (the Minimum Income Floor amount) every month, despite me earning less than half of this amount. this means that they are no longer giving me any financial aid. so im now receiving…
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Approaching crunch time
I have a number of physical ailments, I won't detail them all here, however I have had a number of investigations which showed an abnormal biology (likely congenital) and an operation. The hope was that the operation would improve things but it was one step forward and one step back, effectively. I am, for all intents and…
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Anyone with knowledge of getting full council tax exemption with SMI
Asking for a friend. They have a relative who was diagnosed with Aspergers, ADHD and PTSD and lives on thier own but at the moment only gets a partial discount based on the fact they cannot work and are receiving Universal Credit and PIP. Would they be entitled to apply for full council tax exemption at all and if they are…
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UC + Pension
Bit of advice needed. My ex partner needs to move to an assisted living flat (which she intends to purchase) due to a deteriorating health condition. She recieves benefits including UC. She has a private pension which she would need to access as part payment for the flat. As I understand it the moment the money hits her…
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Appointee and bank account
19 year old daughter has her UC paid to her bank account every 2 weeks. Her PIP goes into my bank, to a separate account. From that, her phone bill, subscriptions and all other expenses are paid. Am I correct to have the PIP paid into my bank account or should it go into hers? I am the appointee for both UC and PIP. She's…
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Esa Contributions based - bank loan
Hi everyone I am on Contributions Based ESA. I declare the small pension i have. I would like to borrow some from my bank for home improvements on top of my existing mortgage. Is that ok? I am on no mean teated benifits. Is that ok,
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ESA to UC Migration. End benefit claim.
Hope someone can help. I have a partner who has asked me to move in with them, as part of the move and the strengthening of the relationship I want to close my benefit claim as he earns more than enough to fund both of us. I have a migration letter but i am not sure how I go about cancelling the migration and ending the…
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Universal Credit bank question
hi we’ve been accepted for Universal Credit and everything has gone through. I’m trying to make a budgeting more easier and it would be helpful to open another bank account for me to transfer food petrol money in so it doesn’t get eaten up by bills do I need to inform UC ? that I’ve opened a bank account or does it not…
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Aah reclaim
After 9 months of trying to get over the death of my husband, today I have a demand for £217.this has really knocked me back. The death was registered and one stop advised 14 days later..what a horrible thing to happen making him out to owe!! He never claimed anything in his life until macmillan got thus for us in the last…
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Work Capability Assessment (LCWRA)
Hi, I had appointment with my GP on Monday to get a three month fit note to start the process of LCWRA as at the moment I am on LCW, but I need to get on to LCWRA as my mental health is bad and I also have new conditions (agoraphobia and social anxiety) which my GP has put them on my medical records and I just want Job…
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BT Home Essentials Unlimited Broadband- check your renewal.
Not a DWP benefit, but releted to them:If you have an existing BT Home Essentials Unlimited Broadband that has renewed recently then check your renewal details and billing.This morning I received 2-emails from BT (strangely both at 2:07 am, but they do check as being genuine so I guess it was an automated 'Monday/weekday'…
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Housing Benefit Query
Hello everyone, I have a question about the Housing Benefit that I receive at present, which I’m hoping can be answered by someone on here, who is in the know with how it all works. Both myself and my brother currently share a property as joint tenants and we have both received the ESA to UC migration letters stating that…
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Claiming Carers NI credits retrospectively
Hi! Wondering if anyone knows about backdating carers credits. Just got off the phone to HMRC after finding out I've 15 years of missing NI years. At the time my partner was extremely ill, claiming incapacity benefit and eventually ESA with the disability and work group components. I didn't work at the time, was a…
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STATE PENSION TAXED AND HOUSING BENEFIT
My local council do not seem to have an answer to this - My state pension is more than my tax allowance as I have done the spouse transfer thing This means my state pension is being taxed but the council only have the GROSS amount and not the NETT amount after tax because the tax bill only comes from the HMRC after the…
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Home Responsibility Protection
I paid to fill the gaps in my pension due to not working while having children and now I read I could have got HRP payments. Can I do anything to get some money back?
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Termination payment into workplace pension
My employment is ending because of my disability, and I am about to receive payment in lieu and accrued holiday pay, and I currently receive Universal Credit. Is it possible for me to instruct my employer to deposit the holiday pay and payment in lieu directly into my pension fund? Because I am contributing to a pension,…
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Call recording on Iphones IOS 18.1
I know there has been a lot of talk over the years about recording calls especially PIP assessments. I havejust noticed the Iphone has a call recording feature, on IOS 18. Whenin a call a small icon will appear on the top left of the screen (sound wave and a solid circle, inside a second circle) This when activated will…
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I've been advised I am not eligible for JSA as a self employed individual?
Help appreciated here... I was made redundant just over a year ago after 35 years of full time employment (so all my NIC paid up without a break during that time), I started my own business a year ago and have been putting heart, soul and all my hours into getting it up and running. As it's still running at a loss…
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Universal Credit and SIPP payments
Both my daughters are on UC and PIP and are highly unlikely to be in any full time employment. My wish is to set up and fund an individual SIPP for each of them. My and their major concern is that it would affect their UC payments. I believe that so long as the money is and remains invested and not touched until…
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Universal credit and pension op
I'm disabled, claiming Universal credit with LCW, I'm not now 55 and have the option to withdraw from a very small private pension £6k. What are my options and how would it affect my Universal Credit and tax?
