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Take Home Pay
Hello, i have a UC question. In order to qualify for help with health costs my take home pay must be under £935. On my UC statements there are two different areas saying Take Home Pay with different amounts. Which one is the take home pay please?
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Migration from ESA and housing benefit to UC
Hi all, I’m looking for some advice on the compulsory migration from ESA and housing benefit please. I have received housing benefit for 14 years in the same property, I was full time employed at first but I got multiple health problems so now can’t work, because of that I’ve received ESA for about 12 years. I was told it…
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UC Question
Hi all and thanks for your support. I have a question about UC which I currently get with my partner, we don't work and are both carers. I finished work in December 2024 when tax credits ended and we claimed UC. I am going to receive £250 holiday pay this month (they didn't want to pay it) which I assume I will have to…
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ESA Special Disability Premium and UC
Hi. Bit of a complex one. I get Legacy Income Based ESA (support group) and full PIP. I was getting the Special Disability Premium top-up of ESA. I moved in with my wife on 15th March and informed DWP and as expected the SDP was stopped and it became a joint claim. We've now made our claim for migration to UC as we…
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Moving from ESA to UC
Hi Ok so now im no longer working and won't be able to pay the rent ( although it's been paid up to mid may ) my mum needs to apply for UC so we can get the housing element and pay our rent , she currently gets income ESA and is in the support group. Because she's not migrating over she's applying before a migration letter…
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UC deductions
Delete if political but I saw this and thought it was good news to share "The maximum amount that can be taken from someone’s universal credit standard allowance payment to repay these debts has been set at 25%, meaning the government can take up to a quarter of your payment Now, from 1 May, this rate has been reduced to…
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Tribunal over DWP not calculating capital correctly
Yesterday was the deadline for responding to the DWP moving the goal posts on my appeal… Im really hoping they dont do it again, but fear they will. Back in October I made a typo when declaring my capital and declared my October figures with a date in Feb. The DWP then issued an overpayment letter- I told them it was a…
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Dla to pip
Hello, does anyone know when the Indefinate dla to pip transfers will take place? i can't seem to find a definitive answer about this.
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Requesting Mandatory Reconsideration after time limit
Hello all, I am not hopeful for this but I thought I post this here just in case someone could help. Our UC claim was closed in October 2024 after my new job and it was all ok so far. Then in March, we received a demand letter from DWP debt management, saying that we have an overpayment of £10,000 from Universal Credit. We…
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UC migration letter help please
Hi me and my husband have got the UC migration letters to tell us to apply to UC from ESA . On the application it said about having to hand in fit nots but my Husband is in the support group of ESA and we didnt have to do that so do we have to get new notes from the GP . Also i claim carers allowance for my adult disabled…
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Universal Credit and RSUs (stock)
Hi all. So for my job we have some stock benefit called RSUs. They become available every few months, to either keep or sell. I have sold some and the sale and taxation of the shares is all handled indepentantly of wages. By that I mean the shares vest, I sell them, I get a wire transfer a few days later. They are however…
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Discretionary trusts and DWP
Does anybody have recent experience of how DWP now treat discretionary trusts primarily for those on means tested benefits I am a trustee for a will trust that was set to protect family members with severely compromised health issues and unable to work. This is likely to come into effect in the next few months. We have…
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Cost of Living payments disregarded question?
If you have say 3 savings accounts and the account that the COL payments went into did go below the amount that was received of the COL payment but the combined amount of your savings from your other accounts which the COL did NOT go into, overall your savings never went below the full amount of the COL payments? So if my…
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Advice needed...
Hi, I am currently receiving universal credit carers element as i am unemployed and caring for my autistic daughter. My mum has fronto temporal dementia and my dad is her main carer. Now my daughter is in school full time my dad proposed i become a self employed "personal assistant" to help out with mum and do bits of…
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UC Review.
Have my UC review, this will be fun! Went to upload my bank statements, but limit is 16 files, yet I have 48. Does anyone know if I can do multiple uploads after I submit the first 16. EDIT, ended up just merging them into one PDF and uploaded that.
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Confusion regarding UC LCWRA Payback letter.
Hello, So I was recently awarded LCWRA and I received a letter saying they owed me money, but I'm a bit confused and wanted some clarification. I've done a fair amount of research and understand the 14 week cool down period but in the letter that was sent to me they informed me I was entitled to £1619.28 from 30th of…
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Old Paper National Insurance Card
Is it worth keeping this for anything today, as I believe it can't be used as any proof in current usage and requirements? Apart from a keepsake, it serves no purpose, especially if the address is also not relevant. I think it was issued at my senior school just before leaving.
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UC overpayment
I have just been checking my statements for Universal Credit and realised that they have made a mistake and not deducted my ESA correctly resulting in an overpayment of just over £100. I know that it has to be paid back and am kicking myself for not noticing sooner and leaving the money aside. My rent went up by £110 in…
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Baby Benefits - Scotland
Good Afternoon All, Myself (34) and partner (31) have just had our first child! Obviously she is now on maternity, we think probably for the first year. Between us we earn £64,000 (£32,000) each, and her job package has given her the first two months at full pay, before sliding down to the statutory amount. I have tried…
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Pip/descriptor
My son wears a nappy at night I have to put this on for him as he is unable to I also have to clean him as well as he is unable to clean his self. most nights we have to go through 2 nappies. during the day he also sometimes wears a nappy. But other times wears a special boxer pants supplied by the Incontinence service…
