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Carer's Allowance Query!
i'll try and be as breif as possible. partner did her yearly reclaim for DLA in september last year (2007). they made their initial decision of awarding her LR care & LR mob again which we appealed against due to the fact that her condition has deteriorated so much so that i had to leave my job in september to look after…
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help advice needed please
hi all thanks for reading not sure this is in the right place :( My dad had a nocturnal seizure last week and has been told tosurrender his driving license (which he is) but as a self employed plumber its not going to make life easy. I just wondered if there was any help available or where best to go for advice. Thanks in…
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Understanding SSP. Please help.
Any help on this would be greatky appreciated, My partner has been off work since October 2007. For the first three months, her pay slips were the same as before she went sick. For the last two months (December and January) the pay slips have shown an element of "sick pay" totalling around £330 each month. This has brought…
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IB50 Form For Incapacity
Hi If you`ve sent off your IB50 for Incapacity Benefit saying that an X-ray Result for the problems I was suffering from was all ok & that Im going to ask for more tests as Im still suffering only to find out a week later when going to the Doctors to ask for these tests that the result of one of the X-rays actually shows…
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Any possible top up of the foreign pension???
Hi, Could anyone point me in the right direction, please? My mum's health conditions are worsening and I am really worried about her. I wanted her to move over here so that I can attend to her and help her on those days when she can't walk. She's got an EU pension of equivalent of £220 a month and her main worry is that…
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Can I Claim
Hi looking for advice form someone who knows about these things. My wife is on Maternity pay after having our son in December, due to her drop in income, can we claim for working family tax credits? Our income is my salary of £34K, + my wife's maternity pay, I am only asking as I can't see anything that will tell me this…
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How to contact Adjudicators office. Help needed
I've been advised to write to an independent adjudicator regarding overpayments of tax credits. I believe tax credits office has made a mistake and is ignoring it along with my circumstances. They are asking to recover the money "overpaid". I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to instruct me on how to write a…
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My little rant about WTC
At the end of December I notified Tax Credits that I was no longer working. When they sent me the amended letter I phoned to query something and was told that I would get follow on payments for 4 weeks after my last date of employment. I had never heard of this and so posted on here and queried it again with them a fw days…
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i had to leave my job please advise on what im entitled to while job hunting
i had to leave my job due to my boss ( very personal and upseting) i have my own flat that is privatly rented i have no money coming in what so ever and my rent is due in 3 weeks then i have the usual bills and stuff do i go and sign on while im job hunting and am i entitled to anything else? i am 24 years old and i live…
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Pension Tax Credits
Hi Can anyone please help ?.I am on Jobseakers allowance earnings based at the moment, in November 2008 i will be 60 years old what happens at this point do i automaticly go onto the pension tax credits.I know you have to claim 6 months prior to this date or do i have stay on the Jobseakers allowance. Thank you Torchwood
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Tax credit advice please
Hi, I hope someone can give me advice. My partner originally lived in a different part of the country from myself. He moved up here when our baby was born and we bought a house together. Unfortunately he now cannot find a permanent job in his line of work up here and has had to move back down south to work for his old…
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windfall will it affect benefits?
Hello, my brother is 67 and claiming benefits (council tax and pension credit) his total savings are nearly £16000. He has just been left £4000 in a friends will so this will take him well over the limit and he will lose his benefits. But as he owes me and my sister more than £4000 from the past he would like to repay us…
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tax cred overpayment-another one
today i received letter saying i owe £1046 from 2005. I disputed this months and months ago (appeal letter) and thought the case had been closed because i hadnt heard anything else. Basically what happened was I mistakenly forgot to sign and send back the yearly declaration thing, thing was they sent me about 3 of those…
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single mum to 3 children how can i save money
please ideas?
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Incapacity & College
hi everyone ! Im on incapacity just now and i have been for the past year and a half. But, im now thinking of taking a part time college course. Its 1 day at college and 1 day placement in a school. Will this effect my money in any way as im getting the course for free because im on incapacity?? And do i need to contact…
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overpayment on wages
hi everyone not sure if this post should be in here but i hope u can help me anyway! right, i recently started a job at the beginning of january and was not happy in the job so i left at the end of january. no contract was signed and there was no agreement in place of any nature. so i left the job after i got paid and got…
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National Insurance contributions
I've been un employed for about 10 months now, had a few interview but not got them. Had one today so fingers crossed! Thing is, job center is currently paying my NI contributions if I sign on every two weeks, stopped paying me any money a few months ago. Now Ive just received a bonus from my ex employer. They deducted…
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Moving costs
I have been on JSA for13 months and will be moving home in march, does anyone know if there is any help i can apply for to help me with removal costs, and essential things i need eg; cooker,curtains, flooring ect? Thanks
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Letter received re looking into my payments for 2004!
I received a vague letter from Inland Revenue around sep 2007 stating mistakes had been made on 03/04 payments and Mine was one they were looking in to. Ive heard nothing else since. That year I started to claim tax credits as I had given up my work and had started a family - each year since at the end of every year I have…
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tAX CREDIT OVERPAYMENT
i HAVE JUST RECIEVED A LETTER FROM TAX CREDITS SAYING THAT I HAVE BEEN OVER PAYED BY JUST OVER £400. I don't know what to do we are just scraping through some weeks as it is and they are now saying that it needs to be repaid by end of Feb:eek: I have already queried this with them before as the citizens advice told me to…