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Income Support
Hello Folks! Would I be entitled to, or would I be financially better off claiming income support. I am normally just less than a pound over the limit, but wonder if things have changed. I receive £60.02 CSA Carers Alloweance 1 Child DLA MRC LRM 1 Child DLA HRC LRM CHB £33.20 CTC £200.29 If I do qualify, it will only be…
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Entitledto...is it only relevant to England?
I used entitledto to work out what sort of housing benefit I would be able to get for a flat, and it came up with a really large amount...then I tried my local council calculator using the exact same details and the amount was much smaller. I'm thinking the second of the two is more realistic because I do work and…
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Local Housing Allowance
Hi everyone!! I'm new to posting on this site and was wondering if anyone could help me with some advice? I am 28 and currently living back with my parents in Scotland after i moved out from living with my partner a few months ago, as you can imagine i am looking to move out very soon, even though my parents are great, i…
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dwp cold weather payment why have we not recieved it?
i recieve wtc & ctc with disabled premium for a young child which also includes the high element, dla high rate car and dla low mobility our postcode has had payouts so why have we not, i found this and this states we should be entitalled Who is eligible? You may be eligible for a Cold Weather Payment for each week of very…
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Incapacity Benefit entitlements??
Hi there everyone - I am now the the forum and wonder whether you guys can help me. I have been receiving IB since November 2007. My husband is in full time employment, can I get any help with paying my dental bills at a NHS dentist? And do I have to pay for prescriptions at the chemist? I don't have any card or anything…
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Help/advise needed
Hi, can anyone tell me if it is OK for Barclays bank to take money from my account without notice, to pay my barclay card arrears. My account is only for my income support and incapacity benefit to be paid into. Any help would be gratefully received. Thanks
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Moving in with mum on Pension Credits
My mum is on Pension Credit Guarantee Credit & rents a house from the council, for which she claims full HB & CTB. I have just split up with my partner & will have to move back in with my mum until I get back on my feet. I only work part time as I am studying too so my annual income is about £8000. Would my moving back in…
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How many nights is a partner allowed to stay?
Hi I was just wondering if anyone knows the answer to this. I am a full time student, i get part housing benifit and my council tax exemption. I have a new partner, at the moment he is not staying over just visiting. If he does stay over how mant nights is he allowed to stay before it effects my housing ben and council…
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tax credits enquiry
Hi Everyone Got a letter in on saturday saying they intend to enquire into my award. I live alone with my 1 and a half yr old son, im still good mates with my ex(son's dad). they are asking me to send p60, rent agreement, council tax bill, utility bills etc, the problem i have is i was made bankrupt and my bank do not…
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tax benefit of spending maternity leave abroad
Hello, my wife will be on maternity for 1 year from mid April. She gets 6 months full pay, then 6 months statutory allowance. Now, she spends her entire maternity leave abroad, and in effect becomes a non-resident, does she receive the UK income tax free? (ie taxed at whereever she becomes resident for the time?) thanks…
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More cold weather payments
Hi everyone. :T Gordon Brown has just announced that there will be more cold weather payments of £25 issued this week. They will also continue to be issued while the weather is this bad. Hopefully it will help.
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Tax Credits?
Hi A couple of weeks ago I read about some tax credits I could claim if I filled out a form (sorry no idea which one it was now) stating that my daughter is under 16. If she was under 16 between two specific dates I could get something like £529 and an extra £500 if she was born between the two dates. I was wondering if…
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Income Support Carers Allowance Question
I am in receipt of Income Support for myself and my husband due to illness, I also receive DLA (high care, low mobility) my husband is obviously my carer, can he claim carers allowance and do they take away income support if you do claim carers? We don't want to be worse off than we are but he is my carer so to be…
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Please can anyone advise help with attendance allowance
Hi, I'm trying to help a family friend who is over pension age, and has severe emphysema, claim Attendance allowance. I know a fair bit about DVLA as my husband is blind and gets it. However over 65s cant get this can they? So need they have to apply for AA, and from what I've seen/heard the qualifying conditions and…
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Self Employed - Signed off Sick.
Hi I am self employed doing physical work and have been having a lot of trouble with my back. I was signed off for two weeks last year but just used my savings to get over the glitch. At the weekend the problem returned and I could barely move - spent the entire weekend in tears. Anyway due to weather I could only get to…
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Housing Benefits - Non-Dependents?
I did a thread a couple of weeks ago about how I had made a claim for JSA and HB on 23rd December and still hadn't received anything. Well i've finally recieved my JSA but had a letter about the HB saying they were going to take £47 a week off my HB because I lived with a non-dependent? The person I live with is someone I…
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Council Tax & bailiffs
hi all apologies if in the wrong forum. i won a benefits appeals tribunal against my council in july 2007 and the upshot of this is that they then took money from my council tax account in trying to adjust things when i believe that they shouldn't have. My benefits advisor at my housing association was dealing with this ,…
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Housing Benefit - Living with a close relative?
Afternoon all, first post here but been reading forums for a while! A very welcome resource, keep up the good work and advice :) My query is that i have recently become unemployed, a situation i am trying to resolve ASAP, and now recieve JSA of £60.50 per week - this is my only income. I applied for Housing benefit towards…
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help with IS
hi all had a letter this morning saying that i have been paid my child benefit money for 3 children my daughter is at uni so her child benefit stopped in september, i rang them and now they are saying i nshouldn't be getting any money for her so have been overpaid? i live with my husband who is sick and 3 children is this…
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Couples
I've been reading these forums for a while, just lurking to see if the answer to my question came up. My query is, I live with my partner, we are not married. I claim long term IB, IS that says because you are sick or disabled (I presume this is a premium) HB and CTB. It also says for you and your partner and runs down…