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Totally baffled by tax credits
Hi I am hoping that someone here can give me some advice regarding how the payments for tax credits work. Basically our income this year has only run from Sept 1st to April, claimed JSA prior to that. So our tax credits are based on a estimate of £6500 for 08/09 My OH has earnt £800 more than the estimate, (through…
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Please help me to help my friend
Apologies in advance for the length and lack of clarity in this thread, if I should add anything please say. My friend is a 21yo female. She attends a top 5 UK university, and despite various hardships, is performing really well. She also works in retail saturday and sunday, as she needs to financially. (~108 pw) Around…
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LHA - housing benefits
hello my lha rate is 196.15 for 2bedroom flat. I pay 695 monthly. I applyed for Lha but it takes about 3 weeks. So i still dont know how much I should get benefits and how long I can get LHA benefits? I am out of work and receive child tah credit and JSA. I hope, LHA will cover all my rent:rolleyes:
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Help with renting benifits
Hi in 2 month or so i have to get my own place i am 23 single no children.i do have a disability but no registered as disabled what are the things i can get help with like reduced council tax? any help will be appreciated as with outgoings is right on borderline.
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Turned down again for Income Support
I have been getting Incapacity Benefit since last August and have claimed for help with my mortgage but was turned down as they said I had to wait for 39 weeks. I checked this out and was told that under the new rules I should be eligible after 13 weeks. I re-applied and was turned down again and was told the same thing. I…
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Changing from HB to LHA
Hi, I am finishing up work next week due to having to care for my daughter for a period of time. I want to take this opportunity to change for HB to LHA. I beleive i have terminate my housing benefit for at least one week and then re-apply. I intend to have this unpaid period next week, ie cancelling claim on Friday and…
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Incapacity?ESA help needed
I would really appreciate some advice on the following, for my housemate. She had been unable to work long term due to mental health problems until Sept 2007. Prior to this she was claiming Income Support in lieu of IB as she had not paid enough contributions. With the help of Shaw Trust and pathways to work, she began…
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Lha Entitlement
Hi can someone advise me of the number of rooms i should be entitled to. My daughter,21 lives with me, she works full time. My lha has come through at 1 bedroom rate, is this correct. I am getting £23.deducted weekly for non dependants.
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need some advice
Until October last year I was a self employed ceiling fixer and due to th work drying up I has to sign on for income based JSA. I claimed this from mid November to early Jan 09 along with housing & council tax benefit. Whilst claiming benefits I applied for a private hire licence with the local council, its quite a long…
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2 Children on DLA I get carers allowance for 1, can my partner claim for the other?**
Hi there, I have 2 children with disabilities in my house (my own sons) My eldest son has been on DLA for a few years now, but just today my youngest son has been awarded DLA also. I already get Carers Allowance for eldest son and am aware that I cannot get Carers Allowance twice (for more than 1 person/child). We live…
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Pregnant full time student with boyfriend out of work - any advice?
Hi I'm a 29 yr old, pregnant, full time mature student living with my partner of the same age. We have our own home with a mortgage which we are currently only paying the interest on as my partner is out of work. I work 15 hrs a week at the moment on top of my course and my partner is setting up his own business as he has…
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savings and housing benefit
My husband and I have 24K savings, my husband is currently ill off work (but hopefully going back in 3 months). We applied for housing and council tax benefit but was refused due to savings. We have paid taxes all our working lives and feel we should be able to claim something short term. Is there anything we can do?
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Claiming Travel Expenses
I currently live within a 10 walk of work and later in the year we are due to move premisses which will take me about an hour to get to on the bus and cost me roughly £60 a month in fares Am I entitled to claim this back or is it all at the employers discretion?
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Childrens savings and housing benefit....
I just wondered is there any extra allowance for children's savings on top of the £6000 (i think?) that does not effect housing benefit? Or do children's savings count towards the £6k that a couple can have? Thanks!
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backdating family tax credits
hi guys, my GF hasnt been claiming the tax credits she has been due for, wait for it.....3 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now, i have only just discovered this and told her to get her backside in gear and claim what she is owed. will she be able to get all the backdated payments (she is living with her mother at the moment with her…
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would it be ok to phone tax credits
i was made redundant last week and i phoned tax credits last thursday to let them know bearing in mind there is only a few weeks till the end of the tax year would my payments change in any way or would i have to wait until after the 6th april, should i phone tax credits or wait for a renewal to come, im just getting a bit…
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Council tax and housing benefit
Hi, just out of curiosity i went onto the entitled to website i typed in all the relevant info they asked for for the tax year 2007/2008. my husband had only earned £12800 in that year as he had not been in his new job for long, so based on this he was getting working tax credit and i was getting child tax credit,…
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how reliable is entitled to website
ive been on to entitled to.com and checked what tax credits i would be entitled to , put in all the correct info was wondering how reliable would it be to go on there figures that they have given me or is it more of a guide line?
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JSA sanction - worth appealing?
I recently receieved a letter telling me that because I lost my last job through my own fault I am not entitled to JSA for 26 weeks. If I appeal the decision is it possible they will pay me JSA at a lower rate? I have no other form of income and if I can't get any JSA I don't have a clue what i'm supposed to live on…
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£16k+ Savings & JSA
Morning all, I was made redundant on Friday and am now on the job hunt again. I had my phone interview with Jobcentre yesterday to see about claiming for JSA and have been invited to a further interview this Friday. My question is; during the phone interview, I was asked how much savings I had, to which I replied £10k in…