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Marriage Allowance form... Who fills in 4 Higher earner (recipient) section?
My wife and I are trying to complete this form and under Section 4 it says "Only complete this section if you want the refund to go to a nominee on your behalf." but there are indications that is where I put my details Ref: " the higher earner (recipient) has only completed, signed and dated the declaration at part 4, if…
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Housing Benefit and Pension Drawdown.
Some help for a neighbour please.She is state pensions age. Lost her job last year and claimed Housing Benefit. Her ex employer have told her she has a very small pension with them that she can claim and that she can have a drawdown on that of just under 2k. Will the drawdown be counted as capital with Housing Benefit? Or…
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Carers allowance
Can someone please help with a few questions? I am looking at new style JSA (not means tested) and Carers allowance. I see that for carers you need to care for someone who is in receipt of a benefit for at least 35 hours a week and can earn up to £196 per week - over this and the allowance stops. For JSA, I see you can…
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Pension Credit and disregards.
I’ve received a letter this morning from the DWP’s Pension Service B saying they need to check the information they have wrt pension credit is correct on September 29th. It says not to contact them as they will contact me by phone or letter “in the near future.” My first query is whether they will do this before September…
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Pension Credit and appropriate amount.
For the past 2 years I have received Pension Credit Guarantee Credit and the appropriate amount was £201.05 plus £76.40 severely disabled allowance,but if I enter the new current amounts in a benefit calculator it says I am not entitled to pension Credit,why would that be ?
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Inheritance and benefits
Hi I have a question I hope somebody can help with... I'm currently on UC. My father recently passed away and made me and my sister joint executors of his will. We're also the sole beneficiaries and will inherit a sizable sum. My question is this; His bank have said they will release his funds in due course. I take it that…
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Accident - claim compensation
Hi there I an on contributions based esa and a priviate pension. Can i seek compensation for an accident that happened to me? I used a ramp for my wheel chair and I was clipped by the ramp. It threw me off and I broke me arm. Am I allowed to seek compensation? Im scared because of benifits but im on no income related…
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Pip Review
Hi, Was just wondering if anyone has any idea what this could mean. My son had sent a pip review months ago. He has been on the middle care rate and no mobility. He has been receiving around £290 every four weeks. Got a text couple of days ago saying review complete wait for letter to see outcome etc. Is due pip in a…
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Moving from pension credit to state pension
Hi, just wanting to know anyone's experience when pension credit ends and state pension starts. The situation at the moment is my partner claims the old state pension - pension credit is paid for me as the younger partner under the old rules, in jan 2026 I turn 66 and can claim the new state pension, I understand that we…
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From LWRAC to work
HI , I am currently LWRAC and i am thinking about the possibility of doing a part time job for 20 hours a week if they will have me. What happens to the LWRAC? If I cant manage to do the job I don't want to lose my benefits because I will lose my home and be back at stage 1. Can anyone advise what the rules are please
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Reporting rent increase late
Afternoon all, in a bit of a panic. We had a rent increase late 2023, and I tried to upload proof to UC - only some texts between me and the landlord, I have nothing else, as we’re on good terms. Fast forward to today, and i just happened to look at my statement more in depth, and its got my old rent amount on it. Looked…
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Universal credit and earned income - pension contribution deduction from UC
Good evening all, I'm trying to find out what counts as earned income for the purposes of Universal Credit. For example, is my pension contribution income or ignored? The whole thing or only part?What if I receive a tax refund? Is that deducted from my UC at the same rate as my wages are? The wage amount shown on my UC…
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Students Council Tax Liability
Hi Our son is a university student. He should have completed his degree in June this year and graduated in Sept.However when he was home with us at Easter this year he broke his arm and had to suspend his studies. At the end of August 2025 he returned to live with two friends, who each have failed one year, so all three…
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£600 Winter Fuel Allowance
Dear All My 93 year old mother has just been notified she will receive £300 in winter fuel allowance soon. For reasons I do not understand she used to receive £600 before it was withdrawn last year. Can anybody please enlighten me on why my mother was receiving twice the allowance? Thanks Black_Monk
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Benefits advice for young self employed
My son has just returned from University and is now working as a sports coach. Based on his incomings and expenses (mileage) I did a Universal Credit calculation and it came back with £76 a month!! I'm sorry but how are youngster supposed to live on this amount of money. Anyone have any ideas on any other help he could…
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Attendance allowance funds Help ..
A bit advice please . My father has been granted Attendance allowance , he wants to use the funds to pay the help he receives from the family ( I live with him ) but other members like my sister and brother in law helpout for appoitments , washing , cooking etc . He wants me to setup a direct debit from his account into…
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Disregarding capital from Insurance payout
Hi I received an amount of £7.5k due to my car being totaled. As far as I understand this money is to be disregarded as capital at least for six months. How do I report it? I have already £9k+ capital. Should I report the total and tell them what to disregard? Or I should just report £9k? Thanks
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Can both the DWP and HMRC award NI Credits?
Ive just checked my NI record on my government gateway and its showing i have a full year towards my state pension but its only showing 41 weeks of NI credits. (i was expecting it to show 52 weeks). The reason i was expecting it to show 52 weeks of credits is because i was both unemployed and then later working in that tax…
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Financial gifts for birthday/Christmas whilst on Carers Allowance
Does anyone know if you are allowed to receive money for your birthday/Christmas whilst on Carers/ Allowance? I don't have any other income and look after both, very elderly, parents. They would like to give a birthday gift of £500. There is no info on this on the Gov.uk site. I know you are allowed to have savings as CA…
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HRP help
my mom doesn’t get a full pension and when we look at her NI contributions online she has missing years so this lead us to look at the HRP that she may be able to claim. She had 10 years of full contributions before she had her first child in 1975. So she should have HRP from 1978 until her last child turned 18 in 1998. So…
