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Claiming Carers NI credits retrospectively
Hi! Wondering if anyone knows about backdating carers credits. Just got off the phone to HMRC after finding out I've 15 years of missing NI years. At the time my partner was extremely ill, claiming incapacity benefit and eventually ESA with the disability and work group components. I didn't work at the time, was a…
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STATE PENSION TAXED AND HOUSING BENEFIT
My local council do not seem to have an answer to this - My state pension is more than my tax allowance as I have done the spouse transfer thing This means my state pension is being taxed but the council only have the GROSS amount and not the NETT amount after tax because the tax bill only comes from the HMRC after the…
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ESA Support Group Migration Help
I had a letter saying my ESA Support Group (Income Related??) is being migrated and I must go online to a move to UC link. I am totally perplexed by forms, especially online forms, I had a housing benefit review a while back and it crashed 23 times over several weeks, each time losing the data. Last time I did anything…
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Home Responsibility Protection
I paid to fill the gaps in my pension due to not working while having children and now I read I could have got HRP payments. Can I do anything to get some money back?
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Termination payment into workplace pension
My employment is ending because of my disability, and I am about to receive payment in lieu and accrued holiday pay, and I currently receive Universal Credit. Is it possible for me to instruct my employer to deposit the holiday pay and payment in lieu directly into my pension fund? Because I am contributing to a pension,…
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Call recording on Iphones IOS 18.1
I know there has been a lot of talk over the years about recording calls especially PIP assessments. I havejust noticed the Iphone has a call recording feature, on IOS 18. Whenin a call a small icon will appear on the top left of the screen (sound wave and a solid circle, inside a second circle) This when activated will…
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I've been advised I am not eligible for JSA as a self employed individual?
Help appreciated here... I was made redundant just over a year ago after 35 years of full time employment (so all my NIC paid up without a break during that time), I started my own business a year ago and have been putting heart, soul and all my hours into getting it up and running. As it's still running at a loss…
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Universal Credit and SIPP payments
Both my daughters are on UC and PIP and are highly unlikely to be in any full time employment. My wish is to set up and fund an individual SIPP for each of them. My and their major concern is that it would affect their UC payments. I believe that so long as the money is and remains invested and not touched until…
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Universal credit and pension op
I'm disabled, claiming Universal credit with LCW, I'm not now 55 and have the option to withdraw from a very small private pension £6k. What are my options and how would it affect my Universal Credit and tax?
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Too late to claim JSA...?
Hi there, would appreciate some benefits advice from those in the know, please. I recently moved down south with my partner and had to leave my job in the north which was a sad thing for me. However, I thought I would be able to start again and find a new job but to my despair it's not been the case. I'm up against ageism…
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Appointee for Benefits Help
My Son has been deemed as not having capacity around finances by his Social Worker. She has asked me to become his Appointee for Benefits. She has rang DWP and they will not speak with her as my Son was not present. I have rang them and been told the same. He is on Universal Credit so have left a message in his journal, no…
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Housing Benefit review - not a FCR?
Hi, and I do hope someone can help with this as I'm worried sick. I reached SP age 12 months ago and in receipt of full SP. I have no other pensions or similar, no earned or other income, savings less than 10k. I didn't apply for HB/CT support until April of this year and received notification the following month it had…
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ESA to UC Managed Migration Deadline Extension Extended.
Hi All, I have a question to ask that concerns a relative of mine, who received the ESA to UC Managed Migration letter back in April, and which gave them a deadline date of 3rd July to start their claim for UC. Due to their Anxiety and Social Avoidance Personality, they made a decision not to claim UC before the initial…
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Child DLA
Hi, My child DLA is due to be renewed in Oct. It was only awarded for 2 years may be because we were waiting for his ASD diagnosis. He was diagnosed in March they sent me a report covering all aspects of there findings. It also shows they consulted school and other medical professionals. A SEN meeting was carried out in…
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Small Pots Pension effect on UC
Hello, I would just like to clarify something. In the near future i will be drawing from my pension under small pots rule, aprox £7k I understand this is treated as capital / savings in UC, and also anything over £6k will have £4.35 deducted for every £250 or part of over the £6k My question is, in the same assessment…
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ESA freak out...😒
Hi 0😊. Im on Contributions Based ESA. I've been on it for about 16 years. No probs. I have a priviate pension that ive also declared too. Im a neat freak with letters and I spilled my coffee over molester etc. So annoyed 😒. So I called ESA and asked for them to send out a replacement letter for my recorded etc. No probs! I…
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Change of circumstances with contributions based ESA
If anyone can help I would be grateful. If someone has been claiming CB ESA for some years and their circumstances change so that they may now be eligible for some Income related ESA also is it still possible to claim this or does it have to be Universal credit. The person in question has been living with his dad who has…
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Job centre registered me as not gainfully self employed, is this wise?
My transistional protection/first year start up help ends in two days and I just had an interview with a work coach at jobcentre. As I've been working paye for last three months 37 hrs and getting no money off dwp whilst doing this job I said from now (hopefully today it will be recorded) that my dominant job is paye not…
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New Job Seekers Allowance and Pensions
Just lost my job at 64, not ready to retire and looking for new work. I have taken some of my pension tax free lump sum. Does this affect my claim for NJSA?
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Winter Fuel Payment , possible scam
I hope this is in the correct section ,yesterday i got a phone message from DWP telling me we had not claimed for the 24/25 winter heating allowance. It asked me to click on a link which took me to the GOV.UK website ( it looked official ) where it asked for name, address etc BUT then said i had to pay £1 via a credit…
