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Housing Benefit will not pay full rent
I am out of work, got my child aged 8 living with me full times. Claiming IS, DLA, CTC and child benefit and got under £6,000 saving in my bank. The housing benefit will not pay me full rent because of 1 child living with me in a three bedrooms house, they only pay 100% if my child living with me in a 2 bedrooms house. I…
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Can my daughter claim H/B to help with rent?
Please can anyone offer some advise to my daughter regarding Housing Benefit. She is wanting to move out of the family home into a rented flat but knows she will struggle to pay the rent plus all her other living costs. Will she be entitled to claim any help towards the rent, such as Housing Benefit? She works full time.…
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self employed - weekly figures not good
Hi all WFTC and tax credit have a figure of £13,500.00 for 2008/2009 as self employed for hubby. We have 3 kiddies all under 8 and i am currently not working (not claiming anything though ). Basically what with the credit crunch ( hate that word ) my husband income has dropped in a huge way. We are getting by , just, and…
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New Blue Badge anti-fraud measures
What's it about? The Blue Badge Scheme for certain groups of Disabled drivers means parking a car is both free and easier to do as they're given the right to park in areas that are normally restricted. Yet in the past the scheme's been open to fraud and misuse. Now it's trying to tackle that though by changing the badge's…
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JSA and NIC and redundancy
need some third party advice. If a person has paid 30 years NI contributions and has in excess of £20,000 in savings by way of a redundancy payment. Is it worth their while registering as unemployed, my guess is they will not get JSA, is there any benefit in paying any more NIC? Thanks to all who all help
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Council Tax Have Wrong Information - Really Worried
Following on from my previous thread about my council tax owing I have fished out both my original council tax bill and also the amended one from when I left work and went on benefits. I mustn't have looked at it properly when I received it as it says I still get single persons discount on both even though when I applied…
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Are parents entitled to this?
The situation. Mum applied for and got Pension credit. She doesn't get a state pension in her own right as she paid married woman NI's ( despite working till she was 75). He r health declined and a benefits officer filled in the forms for Attendance Allowance, which she subsequently got at the higher level. At this stage,…
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Income support back dated?
Hi everyone! I stupidly went back to work a few months ago, and ended up a lot worse off because it wasn't the best of pay and was commision based :mad: but i thought i could make a go of it, anyway it didn't work out so i had to leave and go back on income support. I put my claim in 5 weeks ago and it has just been…
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Silly Question RE Council Tax
This morning i receive a letter stating i am in arrears with council tax for 2008/2009 which is fair enough maybe i am, except we have had our council tax paid for since March due to me being ill at the moment and my husband been carer. What are the chances of them being wrong? Obviously i need to phone them either way…
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Work Focus Interview, following PCA
Having just had a PCA visit and been told that there is no way I am able to return to work, why do I now have to attend a Work Focused Interview? It seems a total waste of time and effort, as the stress will make me ill for days.
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DLA Rate
What is the DLA rate for being born deafness in both ears ? I heard most getting lower rate, middle rate or even higher rate of DLA award. As I know being deafness since birth mean will be lifetime deafness never getting better or healing for the rest of their live.
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Slapped with a 3k bill by HMRC
I am a hospital doctor and pay tax via PAYE (it gets deducted from my payslip). I have got a letter today saying I have underpaid 3k tax, because it was not deducted correctly from my employment income and that because i am a higher rate tax payer. My question what do I do from here as I know nothing about tax How does the…
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Am I entitled to Incapacity in Youth?
I'm confused with all the forms I'm filling in and what I'm entitled to or not, I do have a support worker who's helping me but she's difficult to get hold of so just wondering if anyone on this forum could please help me =] I was sent an IB50 incapacity for work form a couple of weeks ago which I've sent off with a med4…
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Can I claim for increased childcare costs whilst on ML?
I know this sounds odd but could I put in a claim to tax credits for increased childcare costs whilst I'm still on maternity leave? I'm just asking because my daughter is at a nursery that is quite hard to get places for, a space has come up on a day I really wanted to get her in (because of my working hours when I go…
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paying for childcare while on maternity leave
hi there my partner is a childminder,and at the moment she has a little boy for after school care,his mother gets most of his childcare paid by tax credits,the thing is she is due a baby in april,(that is the mother of the little boy)but still wants the boy to come to my partner for the usual 3 hours,she seems to think the…
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confused about esa
as of monday people will have to claim esa but are you still entieled to disability premium and server disability premium? from what i gather its not only harder to get but its less money?
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DLA / Incapacity & Incoming Inheritance
Hi guys I was diagnosed in 2000 with a physical medical condition which effects my bones and movement. I was awarded DLA and incapacity benefit and have been on it ever since. However, I am soon to receive a rather large Inheritance and am now very worried as to what I am supposed to do. Do I have to declare this? I mean,…
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CTB change of circumstance question help
Posting for my friend who was on high motability DLA, middle care DLA and long term IB (which was slightly reduced each week because of occupational pension) When re applying for her DLA in May, she was awarded high rate care DLA getting more money a month plus the incapacity benefit went up to full weekly rate as the…
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dla/heart condition
probably a very stupid question,but if you have had a heart attack,do you qualify for dla?
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Basic Pension
my wife will be 60 next year in september she is on incapasity benefit untill then she will only have basic pension when 60 her mother has passed away and left her house to her she is thinking of letting this out to help her have more income as she will only receive basic pension will this afect her basic pension