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Council House Downsizing
My mother is 75 years old and currently living in a three bedroom council house and she requested a transfer to a flat in sheltered housing and has been offered to view one but not yet accepted. (Both properties are under the same council). 1. I have heard that some councils may compensate her for downsizing. I realise…
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Advice re: relief work.
Please could someone give me some advice on a job that I am thinking of taking as a relief dinnerlady.It is relief work only to start with unless someone leaves. My problem is that I am on benefits and need to know if it is worth taking this job or looking for a better paid job. The hours could vary from 1hr to 10 hrs per…
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am I being overpaid?!
I applied for WTC & CTC for the first time after having a baby 4 months go. The form asked about my & my husbands income for April 2007-April 2008. In that time I only worked for three months and earned under 3000. My husband only worked for part of the year due to ill health and earned 5000. We didnt claim any benefits…
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Working Tax Credit And Not Working Now ?
I had been paid by working tax credit in the last 4 years until I am out of work from tomorrow as my employee end my contract tomorrow. However, do I have to inform tax credits office to let them know the date of my employee to end my working?. Or does it carry on paid me until end of my tax year to March 2009 (for my…
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CTC and back claiming
(bit of background info) My friend (a non working single parent) has a son who is 11, he is recently diagnosed with ADHD, tourettes and aspergers. We were talking about CTC the other day, and I found she didnt know what CTC was all about and hence has never claimed. Can she make a claim, and request some back payment? Does…
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Is this allowed
My ex wife claims child benefit and child tax credits for our 16 year old daughter. Our daughter had a baby of her own earlier this year and now my ex claims CB and CTC for both our daughter and grandchild as she says she is responsible for them both. Daughter has enrolled on a college course (have heard she is making…
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Redundancy
Our office is closing down and the staff made redundant. We are working til the last day - 14th Nov. We will be getting standard redundancy pay - in my case 2 wks pay as i have been there a bit over 2 yrs. We will also be getting an ex-gracia payment. My question is do i have to declare the ex-gracia payment if i have to…
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EMA and Sickness
My son has just undergone emergency surgery for acute appendicitis and peritonitis, I have spoke to his tutor and been told that because he attended college this week his EMA payment will go through as normal but he wont then receive any until hes back at college. Does anyone have any information on EMA and Sickness?
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property owner and housing benefit
Dear All I know there is so much expertise on these boards, I'm sure someone will know the answer to this. I'm sorry this is a bit of a long story. My northern rock mortgage was due to soar on 1st sept. and as the only potential buyer I had needed to sell thier flat in order to buy my house I agreed to buy thier flat to…
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If you're not working do you need to sign on - and DLA question
My wife has been dismissed from work due to ill health and is now able to get a medical pension which will be paid monthly and hopefully the salary insurance will be sorted soon as well so there will be no need to claim any benefits - unless she could also claim Disability Living Allowance? She is unlikely to be fit enough…
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How can I keep my compensation while receiving Housing benefit
I am due to receive a compensation, but I am working part time and I am a single mum so I get Working and Child Tax Credits. My rent is £441 a week (Temporary accommodation) so I getting Housing Benefit to cover most of it. Will I be able to keep the compensation or they will stop the benefits at once? (The amount of…
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Help!
Morning folks. I was claiming JSA for 6 months up to around March this year then got fed up looking for a job and signed off to try and set up my own business. This didn't get very far other than to drive me further into debt and I had forgotten to set up NI payments as I wasn't actually earning any cash (I've since been…
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Mothers return to work cash bonus?
My wife has been told that when she returns to work after maternity leave she will automatically get a cheque for £150 from the government, I've looked everywhere for something about this on 'the net' but can't find a thing, can anyone point me in the right direction. Also I have read earlier in the year about working…
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Self Employed but through an agency?
Please ignore, I'd got wrong information!
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Benefit Calculator
Hi, Is there anywhere Housing / Council Tax Benefit calculator? MS
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How long till I receive money ?
Hi everyone and anyone, I had the telephone interview yesterday for incapacity benefit due to a bad ankle injury which Im still waiting to get operated on. The lady on the phone said she'll send the printout of the interview for me to check and send back with ID. When am I likely to get money ? (it goes straight into my…
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Is anyone still waiting for tax credits?
My OH applied for tax credits in May and still hasn't heard back. He keeps phoning and being told that it's 'awaiting award' and being dealt with by another team, but that there's nothing they can do to speed things up. I think that either it's got stuck in their system and isn't coming out of workflow to be looked at, or…
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Housing Benefit & Mortgage
I've just read somewhere that child maintenance is no longer to be regarded in council tax/housing benefit claims from 27th October. Having just done a calculation it would seem I'd be entitled to about £60 a week HB if I were renting. I'm not in receipt of benefits other than tax credits/child benefit. Will I not be…
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Dla?
Dont know if anyone can help but here goes!! Went to my GP 3 weeks ago with very painful hip, it had started to stiffen up and then gradually got so bad i could hardly walk on it. She sent me for xrays. I assumed it would just be Osteo Arthritis, in fact the person who did the x rays was chatting to me about her OA while i…
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Tax Credit complaint does it ever work ?
Hi all, Just a query really after going round in circles with Tax credits and countless phonecalls and letters where they keep telling me i have"nt notified of my circumstances changing and i have countless times i have decided to lodge a complaint :mad: . I have spoken to a complience officer more than once got absolutly…