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WTC and DLA
My daughter had op for brain tumour and has been off sick from work plus on highest rate DLA since June 08. Unfortunately the MacMillan Benefits Advisor who came to see her at the beginning advised us to apply for DLA but didn't tell us she may be entitled to working tax credit, housing benefit, etc (although at the time…
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income support, Please someone help me
I've been getting Income Support for 3 years. I had an interview with the Lone Parents team and explained to them I didn't want the CSA involved or contacted due to my ex being very violent and because he'd come straight to me if they did. I have just moved so he doesn't know where I live. They sent out a comliance officer…
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wtc and redundancy payment
I have been made redundant . Dont know how much redundancy i will get . I currently get wtc to top my wages up . I am a single parent . I know jobs are going to be hard to find but ive got to find one quick . Will redundancy pay count as savings and deny any tax credits when starting work again . Would it be adviseable to…
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x please help me with IB allowance query
Hi, I did post about this on the disability part but only got 1 reply, and it's really worrying me now.......... My husband gets IB (long term) and DLA I get Carers Allowance for looking after my son, who also gets DLA (paid via me, he's 11 years old), and we get CTC, HB AND CTC. I recently applied for IS to 'top-up' my…
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room rules in London, housing benefit
Hope some one can answer a few queries. My daughter and her friend are looking to share a 2 bedroom flat in the london region(poss SE) when they finish uni this June. They will have a bond to pay which we can sort but my question is: as they are unlikely to walk straight into a job, what benefits can they then claim? I…
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Flat help?
Hello, Well since my post a week or so ago, i went to the council and explained the situation. She showed me the current properties around here, but for single people they were all quite nasty, and so she told me about LHA and since then ive been looking at private properties. I found a nice apartment with a secure gate in…
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Is it OK to do the following: I need help
Hi, while on a claim of JSA, does xmas/birthday present money matter? Because money obtained through work I know should be declared, but money got by other means ie a gift at xmas etc does that change anything, if I dont tell them?
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national insurance contribution
Im after a bit of advice my partner is em;loyed by a local shop and is contracted to 16 hrs a week,should she be paying National insurance if so how much?she earns about £91 a week.
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Contibution based JSA and Tax Credits
Hi we have just recieved our new tax credit form following my partners change in situation(now unemployed) She is now claiming 'contriubution' based JSA @ £60.50pw as well as looking after our 10 month old child. The benefits office have however put down that she is receiving 'income' based JSA which is incorrect so we…
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Cash in hand , into the bank?
Heya all Now im not sure how the tax system works in all honesty and i must admit i do get a bit bored reading though tons of polictal stuff to only get confussed about it all If i do extra work for cash in hand but then put it into the bank , will i be taxed on it or will i have some sort of goverment guy turn up and ask…
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Useful links/info if you live in Dorset
Hello I'm new to MSE. I was over at my friends the other day and she showed me this on her local council website. www.dorsetforyou.com/benefitscalculator I just thought I should post it as I thought it looked useful - I'd never seen or used anything like this before. Anyway, hope it's of use to someone... Hope it's useful.
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Working Tax Credits - Can the 16hrs Be Split By 2?
OH is a part time student & I'm on maternity leave from work. I don't really want to go back as our son is only 6 months old. To get working tax credits we have to be doing 16hrs a week. OH has offered to work but can only do a set amount of hrs a wk, I wondered if I could top them up to 16hrs or does the 16hrs have to be…
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Pregnant, incapacity benefit to IS and mortgage help
Hi, Can anyone help with this please??! I am 33 weeks pregnant and have been getting incapacity benefit since I was 6 weeks. Before that I hadn't worked for 6 months but until then had always worked and paid tax and NI. I have a mortgage to pay and so was told to claim income support top ups which I have been turned down…
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am in right
am i right in thinking that if someone owes natioal insurance cos they where a sub contractor and they dint pay there stamp then they car nt claim anything now the out of work
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DLA when in receipt of RTWC
Some users will already know some of this information but many won't. I had an operation this time last year which left me with a stoma. Only yesterday, when a magazine came in the post related to stomas, did I realise two things: 1) I am actually classed as disabled under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 2) I could…
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JSA and Savings - Please help.
Hi, According to JCP (Job Centre Plus) you may have up to £6000 of savings untill it affects your claim on JSA. At the time of claiming I had about £1000 which I told them about. But since then with the aid of saving up a bit of JSA and xmas/birthday present money I have gotten up to about £4700 or so pounds. It is still…
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Help Needed Recovery Of Hb Overpaynment But With A Strange Twist: Can They Do This?
Ok so i'm not sure if I'm posting this in the correct place but here goes... Sorry but it's Long LOL When my husband died in may 2006 It took me a couple of weeks to get my head straight and sort out some things, My housing benefit being one of those things. Approx 2 weeks after he died I called to ask what I needed to do…
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made to leave job
Hi All, I hope someone will beable to advise me on my problem, to cut a long story short i used to work for a family run buisness, in november i was off sick for 3 weeks and i went back with sick notes from my doctor still my immediate boss was not happy that i'd been off even though she could tell i was too ill to be back…
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Cold weather payments more to come?
With the upcoming cold weather due to set in over the weekend and next week looking to be a cold one for the whole of the uk do we all think there will be a lot more cold weather payments being set off? if so i would say the first payments of this new cold weather could be paid week after next,what do others think?
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Policy payout on means-tested benefits
I have a query from a friend. They are on IB & get a IS top-up & DLA. They were paying into a policy while working and continued to pay the monthly amount when they had to give up work due to ill health. Due to market conditions it was not performing well so has decided to cut their losses and cash it in as the policy now…