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Attendance Allowance / State Pension
Have not yet received my letter from DWP advising new rate for 2025/6. Also not received my letter advising new state pension rate for 2025/6 from DWP. Is there a delay ?
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Benefit Entitlement Returning to UK after working abroad for 30+ years
Hi, I wonder if anybody could give me some advice on this: My sister-in-law and her husband have been abroad for 30+ years. He has been doing contract work in lots of different countries, and she has done a few part-time jobs, but hasn't worked for the last 6 or 7 years. They currently live in Denmark, and he had a stroke…
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Pension savings and Universal Credit
Hello all, I'm looking for an answer as to what is regarded as savings when claiming Universal Credit. I'm not claiming at present, but may need to in the future. I've taken my tax-free cash from a personal pension. This is going to be used for a house purchase so will bespent in the next few months. I'm trying to find out…
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Why has my HB been reduced?
This discussion was created from comments split from: Looking for advice on what benefit entitlements I might have..
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Tax Free Pension Lump Sum
Hi, I started a thread on Pensions, and some replys were it may be better on Benefits section for answers. Essentially I want to know if taking a tax free lump from pension is treated as income or capital, and what if you take mutiple times tax free lump sums during the year - is it still counted as capital. Money taken…
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Left with childcare vouchers I can't use due to lockdown
Are you in a similar situation, left with childcare vouchers you will never be able to spend? Wondering how to get your money back? My wife and I between us have several hundred pounds worth of childcare vouchers that we can't spend. - We can't spend the vouchers due to school (and childcare) closing for lockdown. -…
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Universal credit advice
Hi Newbie here Need a little help about UC. My son an I are in the process of being transfered over to Universal credits from ESA. I am pretty clued up on the process, apart for the savings part. We both are migrating from ESA, and are both disabled. My son is a non dependent. With regards to our savings, as i am the house…
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Tax free childcare and child benefit
Recently had my first baby! My plan was for my partner to claim the child benefit as I earn just over £50k so would be subject to the tax charge, however we also plan on using the tax free childcare account when I return to work in Nov and I was going to put that in my name, can I do that or do both need to be in the same…
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Council tax exemption
Hi, I'm asking on behalf of a friend. Her step dad has parkinson. They are pretty well off financely live in Wales, Does anyone know if the will be entitled to a reduction with there council tax, Ie. Is it means tested? Has it is at the moment they are paying full council tax They are in their 60s/ 70s Thanks
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£0 Universal Credit Self Employed
Firstly - apologies - I have a feeling this question will have been asked many times but I haven’t been able to find a thread that matches our situation. I would appreciate some advice to help me make sense of our recent £0 award for universal credit. My husband and I run a business together. In general, we get by on a…
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Is home considered an asset in this case?
Hi all I'm trying to help my friend who has some (hypothetical at this moment) questions around her mums finances. Mum owns her own property in own name only, in in receipt of Attendance Allowance and Pension Credit. Mum lives with a 'companion '. They have lived together 30+ years in the same property. Their finances have…
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DWP Chasing Overpayment Incorrectly
I need advice on a situation with the DWP regarding my 90-year-old grandfather. Recently, he received letters stating he owes £16,621.99 due to overpayment from 12/11/12 to 02/10/22. This stems from a period when he was hospitalized in 2012, and my grandmother received the Underlying Carers Premium, which enabled him to…
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No money for over 18 months
I injured my leg in September 2023 and up losing my job worked all my life for 50+ years never claimed the benefit run out of money went to the job centre wouldn’t help me Told had to wait six months cut a long story short we’re now in March 2025. Had no heating since 2023 I’ve had no income since September 2023. I’ve been…
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Marriage allowance
after the new pension rise in April, I will be eligible for tax myself. Will this mean I can no longer give my wife my £1200 allowance or do I take it back which would mean I no longer have to pay tax or should I leave it with my wife or am I not allowed either way?
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Anxious about news on benefit cuts
Does anyone know which benefits will be cut? My son gets pip due to epilepsy and we are worried about the news disabled people will have benefits cut. His pip was renewed last year until 2029.
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Flexible support fund
There is no set amount of money you can be given. It depends on your situation, circumstances and needs. Could someone apply for £1000 for special clothes to get back into self employment?
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Marginal Tax rate calculator
I built this website: https://www.marginalrates.uk/ It shows the effect of Income Tax, NI, Universal Credit withdrawal, the High-Income Child Benefit Charge, the free childcare scheme, tax-free childcare scheme, student loan repayments, pension contributions and (to an extent), Council Tax Reduction, on your take-home pay…
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SMI
i have been getting mortgage SMI since february 2008 My SMI is 180.58 they say based on a mortgage of 59,210 . My mortgage has never been 59,210 and never will be My mortgage is 102,000. I have disputed this when the original house was bought by cash there was no mortgage then the mortgage was taken out by my husbands…
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Missed something off original asset declaration for UC
I asked a few weeks ago about my husband owning half of his mom’s house. I found the regs which say because she is a pensioner and he doesn’t get any money from it it is disregarded for UC. We transitioned from tax credits 6 months ago and just realised my husband didn’t declare it. How do I go about putting this right? Do…
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£0 self employed UC award
Hi I'm hoping someone can clear up my confusion that UC don't seem to understand/explain! Myself and my partner have been running our own business for a couple of years, we hit a financial issue in December. I won't go into detail but we're currently not making any money, it's very much a temporary situation but we thought…
