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Can I get married without losing everything?
I’m severely disabled and live alone. I’m on all the expected benefits and am in adapted social housing. I’ve been very lucky in the help I’ve been given. I’ve now been in a happy relationship for a couple of years, we live separately but spend a lot of time together. We are getting on a bit now and I feel I’d love to get…
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Advice: UC and deprivation of capital
I've recently been made redundant. I'm in my mid-50s and had a retirement date in mind based on continuing to contribute to a pension. Obviously I'm making no contributions right now. I've just started my nJSA claim but the job market seems brutal. Far harder than when I was looking voluntarily 4 years ago (when I was…
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Transfer deeds
Another question which is probably an obvious answer, our son has autism and we've been advised to make a will in trust so that when we pass he won't lose his benefits by inheritting. Can we "give" our house to him now? Would it be classed as capital and he'd lose his ESA?, tia
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No trusted people as trustees
Hi, our son has autism and we've been advised to make a will in trust so that when we pass he won't lose his benefits by inheritting. I don't know if there is an answer to this but we don't have 2 people we trust for trustees, the people we do know and trust are in their 70s,so who would take over if they passed? If anyone…
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Can you help me help my friend?
This discussion was created from comments split from: Pension drawdown query.
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PIP is new to me - how long does it take? And what changes do I need to tell them & when?
I'm in a period of sick leave due to what I'd call a physical disability from an accident. I'm sure others would have a more official name for it and not "physical disability" but basically an accident prevented me from doing a number of things we all take for granted. Someone told me to apply for PIP. Back story to that…
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Does Child benefit count as income?
Hello. The Child benefit has been set up in my partners name, but I noticed on my HMRC account it shows the following for this tax year. Under the section.... All activity on your PAYE account(current tax year) Child Benefit of £3,268.20 added My last two tax years have still not been finalised. I understand 25/26 is too…
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Confusion over when Transitional Protection ends, help needed please.
Hello, I am new to the forum and need a bit of guidance as I feel quite confused and slightly overwhelmed. I apologise for the length of this discussion and if anyone has the time to advise me, I would be extremely grateful. My query is around Universal Credit and Transitional Protection in particular. For context, I was…
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Legacy income related ESA
A close friend that is on the above benefit (and has been for many years due to an acquired brain injury) that is possibly in line for income from a rental property of approximately £13000 has asked me how much will this income affect his benefits. As far as I am aware the reduction is on a sliding scale from 6 to 16…
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ESA
Hi all ! I would be very grateful if you guys could help me to clarify a few things regarding the new style ESA For a bit of background: I’m 61, I work 30 hours a week. Partner receives his state pension and a state foreign pension and also still works part time. We have about 30000 in savings. Unfortunately my health has…
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How to know what benefits you could be entitled to?
Asking on behalf of my mother as she wont seek help herself yet if we insist on it she'll accept it then. Going back quite a few years I know she was on DLA & something else. I forget what. One was means tested & the other wasn't. I remember her getting herself all worked up over one of them she had to be assessed for…
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PIP - 4 points on a descriptor?
Hello, There was talk some time ago about needing to get at least 4 points on a daily activity descriptor to be eligible for PIP. Did that idea get binned? Do you now need to get at least 4 points on one of the non-mobility descriptors? Is that rule coming into force soon in the future? Renewal PIP forms dropped through my…
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UAL level 3 art foundation diploma + child benefit
The UAL level 3 one year standalone foundation diploma (for an 18 year old) = full-time non-advanced education but the HMRC webpage hasn't got a category for it, so you have to phone the office on 0300 200 3100 and ask them to add the extra year on your account.
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Gifting Problem
What is best way to gift money to adult relative on benefits due to childhood illness? If I gift the money, the relative will have benefits withdrawn. Is a Trust best way of doing it? or will my relative still lose out?
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Anyone else been this unlucky with UC?
For years, i claimed Child Tax Credits. My husband works full time and i was bringing up 3 children. 2 years or so ago it all ended abruptly when they became UC. Applied for this, attended job centre interviews, only to be abruptly told 'we have stopped your claim'. Looking into it, it's because, even though we are classed…
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Universal credit
if someone has a wife who looks after their only disabled child, what would their earnings have to be to claim uc?
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Benefits appointee timescale
Hi, can anyone give me a rough idea how long an application to become a benefits appointee takes? It would be for state pension only.
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Partner in hospital JSA being uncooperative
Hi all, Based in England, my partner receives JSA and had a rrgualr meeting planned yesterday which she always says she absolutely has to attend. Unfortunately since Sunday night shes been sedated in hospital with a severe illness that, best case scenario, will stay like that for another two weeks but reality is probably…
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How do I contact this Child Benefit team with regards a Child Benefit rival claim
The situation is as follows - my ex and I split a number of years ago, since then my daughter spends roughly 20 nights out of a month with me and the other 10 nights with her mother. My ex has always been in receipt of the CB. I was working full time on a reasonable wage and was happy for her to receive the CB.…
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PIP Tribunal second attempt
Hi. My wife applied for PIP in January 2024. She got zero points. Mandatory reconsideration also awarded her zero points. Went to a tribunal which was in March. They also awarded my wife zero points. The main reasons for refusing her PIP were as follows from the 'statement of reasons': My wife went to school so is…
