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UC & LCWRA ISSUE
Good afternoon this might be a bit longwinded but here goes. I claimed for UC in Jan 2025 and was awarded £115 due to having a private pension, I gave up work due to ill health and was awarded LCWRA in April 2025 and PiP lower rate in May 2025 now extended to May 2028, last week I was informed by the DWP that there had…
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Four year old Universal Credit debt letter received
Hello, I'm after some advice on what is becoming a somewhat complicated situation. A few days ago myself and partner received a DWP letter saying we owe £1690 and we need to pay it back, or start to, by 4th September. No other information given. Called DWP yesterday to try and find out more, they said it is related to…
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Claiming UC every other 6 months?
Hi all. If someone was to claim UC for 6 months, then sign off because they found a temporary job that lasted 6 months, sign on again after it ended, sign off for another 6 (due to another temp. job that became available), and repeat the cycle, would that actually be possible? I guess that could be an infinite process if…
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If I rent a room in London in shared house am I classed as living with others
This is on behalf of my son who ended full time employment in June and ended his relationship with his girlfriend and as a result will leave their rented accommodation end of September. He is exploring applying for UC and JSA and working 15 hours per week. When I went on the "entitled to" site I was puzzled by the nature…
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Universal Credit - Carer element following bereavement
I would be extremely grateful for any advice. I am beside myself in grief as my darling son (22) died almost 2 weeks ago, completely unexpectedly. I will try to summarise. Son (19) has claimed UC since December and carer element, no carers allowance. S19 has autism and ADHD. His health conditions weren’t reported at the…
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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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Guarantee pension credit query
Hi, Dad who recently passed just over a month ago, potentially looks like he may have been overpaid his guarantee pension credit due to not declaring savings when they went over £10,000 a few times, his money was abit all over the place in the last year with his dementia. Now we haven't recieved a letter yet but are…
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Council Tax Carers Disregard Discount
Hi I would like to ask for some advice please and thank you in advance. Can my husband who is a carer for my son 35 hours per week who is age 19 soon to be 20 and he is in receipt of PiP apply for a careers disregard on council tax. In January this year I applied online to our council in England for the discount on behalf…
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2026-27 self-employed mileage allowance increase & DWP
Hello, I'm both self-employed ( part-time ), and in receipt of U.C. As a driver I receive a mileage allowance from UC, which is not counted as earnings, which is the same as HMRC, i.e. 45p per mile. As this has now increased, to 55p per mile for HMRC 2026-27, will UC ( DWP ) be increasing the allowance also, as they…
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2019/2020 tax credit letter
Hi all. Bizarrely today I received a final tax credits award letter for tax year 2019/2020 Has anyone else received a random letter recently? I stopped claiming it in 2024 as I changed job and no longer qualified. Very confused
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CARER ELEMENT, UC AND WORKING PART TIME AS A FILM EXTRA
Good Morning to all. Can someone help please. I am a full time carer and I get a Carer Element with my Universal Credit…each month.I am also a Film Extra as self employed as this work is occasional… I understand as I am getting the carer's element …there is NO earning limits. First Question ::…what exactly does that mean ?…
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New style esa timeline
did you hear back within 14 days? Today is the 14th day and I am still waiting to hear from them. I wondered if this is normal,
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Family member lives with us. Does this affect Universal credit.
Good Afternoon. Our 25 year old Grand -daughter lives with us and works full time. I do not know how much she earns. (Not my business). I may lose my job next week so will have to claim UC. My Husband works part time due to age and health restrictions. If I claim UC do I have to tell them how much my Grand-Daughter earns?…
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Warm Home Discount winter 2026-27; new eligibility rules for Scotland.
I have just noticed that new legislation came into force on May 1st 2026 that expands the automatic eligibility for Warm Home Discount in Scotland, to bring it more into line with England/Wales. This means that more households in Scotland will now qualify automatically for a £150 Warm Home Discount next winter without…
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UC for ltd company director
Hi, i recently started my own ltd company and pay myself wage through paye. I would like to know before I started my own company I was employee and administrative earnings threshold was applied and my partner wasn't required to look for work as long as my wage was over AET. Now I am treated as both self employed and…
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Becoming an appointee
Hello Everyone, I have agreed to be an appointee for someone I know. They have informed DWP and a visiting officer is coming round to do the necessary ID checks in a couple of weeks. The DWP said they needed to fill in a form, do the ID checks and ask some questions. Any ideas what sort of questions they ask? I don’t like…
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PIP Tribunal THIRD attempt... SUCCESS
I started a thread about this sometime ago but it got closed due to some rather inappropriate comments: So I thought I'd start a new thread in order simply to update. My wife had her THIRD Tribunal on Monday. What was supposed to be a two-hour hearing to give my wife sufficient breaks turned into just a 20-minute hearing.…
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pip extension out of the blue
I know PIP often gets extended for a year often due to review workloads. (had that with last review) But just come back from holiday to a letter from them. Advising that Mrs PIP has been extended from March 27 to March 2031, with a possible review contact date of around March 2030 At the time I did question the 3 year…
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ESA/UC transitional protection and other points of confusion
First some context about the lead up to the situation I could do with some help with. I have been on ESA Support Group since 2010 when I stopped working. I received the Special Disability Element (SDE) top up from 2018 when I began receiving both PIP components at the enhanced rate. My wife began receiving ESA Support…
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Parent possibly moving in
I’m trying to work out what the best thing to do is, but I need to understand the financial implications. I am privately renting a 4 bed house for me and my 2 children. My ex partner and his daughter were living with us when we originally moved in, but it worked out cheaper for me to stay when he left, even though the 3 of…
