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Tax credits Over payment advice needed
I wonder if anyone can give me some advice. Today me and my husband both received letters claiming that there was a taxi credit over payment and that we owe HMRC £4500. Letters were not from HMRC but from a debt collection company called LCS. We have had no communication from HMRC directly about any tax credit over payment…
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New digitised visas to prove right to benefits
Not sure where better to place this so please move if required.... A friend highlighted to me an article in the guardian about the deadline at the end of the year for getting a digitised visa for non EU residents in the UK. This bit struck me: "Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs) – given to all foreign nationals with…
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Changing from ICS to UC how to cope!
Hi, couple rate income support now have to change over to UC. Any advice welcome on how to cope whilst this changeover takes place and how to pay rent etc. hubby is my carer and receive pip as recently had a stroke. Do we ask for discretionary housing benefit claim and a social fund loan? Any advice much appreciated as not…
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carers element
hi all, ive started getting carers allowance backdated since dec23, this was also put on my uc journal in mid april ive just been awarded the carers allowance which is on my UC but no carers element, i have re added it on my journal, have i done the right thing the carers allowance has just this week been added on to my UC…
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Funeral Expense payment repayment?
Hello My mother passed away so we had to claim help towards the funeral, we recieved the DWP letter today to say we got £1953 but in part of the letter it mentions details of the payment will be passed to DWP Recovery from Estates who will contact me for information of any estate. My mother left no estate but had £2700 in…
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State pension overpayment?
This is a follow on question to a one I asked regarding funeral expense payment. My mother passed away on 10th May, she was paid state pension and pension credit totalling £218.15 on 13th, 20th & 24th May total = £654.45 She was also paid £114.80 DLA 21st May Will all of these payments be due back or was she still entitled…
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Pip/MR
Hi I put in a Mandatory Reconsideration for my pip. I could a text to say that it's been received on 19th April and I then received three of the following texts same as below last text received on 3rd June. What should I do as have not heared nothing else from them? Thanks Update on your PIP claim. You asked us to look at…
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Is it correct that my UC gets deducted because I have a spare bedroom?
They take £101 out of my monthly award as I have a spare bedroom. This is correct I think?
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State Pension Error - HMRC
There is something in the news about how there has been an error on State Pensions mostly affecting women who took time away from work to care for children between 1978 and 2000. The HMRC are writing to those affected but also mention up to 60,000 are now deceased and that their families can claim any money due. Who would…
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Quick one: rebate due from the Revenue
I'm due a rebate from the Revenue in recognition of an overpayment of income tax last financial year - received the letter yesterday. Do I need to ring them to ask for a cheque to be sent, or is it done automatically? Can't remember and it's quicker to ask on here than spend time hanging on the line to the tax people…
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Children's inheritance and UC
My daughter's ex husband has terminal cancer and we are working out the best way to leave the boys provided for. No-one else needs to inherit. Assuming his estate isn't riddled with debt ( a very real possibility), would any money left directly to his sons and put into savings accounts be counted as their mum's for UC…
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Universal credit and an apprenticeship?
Hi,Can anyone let me know how doing an apprenticeship at £7 p/h would affect my universal credit? Would I still be required to hit the minimum earning threshold of £892? Or could I earn less as I’m doing an apprenticeship? I am a single claimant with child and housing element. Thanks in advance
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APPEAL ADVISE
I recently asked for a mandatory reconsideration because UC failed to deal with a claim for back payment in respect of bedroom tax. Instead of considering back payments from 2017 they only backdated from January of this year. I therefore asked them to consider backdated from when the bedroom tax should not have been paid…
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UC benefit Award letter?
What does a UC benefit Award letter look like? I'm applying for student loan repayment deferral and they're saying that's specifically the only evidence of UC benefit that they'll accept. The only things I have from DWP/UC are the online copies of statement/calculation for each AP, that are accessible on my UC account.…
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Casual “Mystery shopper” and UC
At the last meeting my son was advised to apply for a mystery shopper job. He’s “applied” and without much fuss or interview etc has been sent his first “task” which is at a jewellers. He has been asked to buy something and assess the shop…. For this he will be payed £10 and a bonus of £15 plus the cost of the item he…
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16 year old apprenticeship - UC and housing element - single parent
Hi, My almost 16 y/o DS has just finished his GCSEs and is starting an apprenticeship in September. I'm a newly single mum working 30 hours and renting privately. I fully expected not get his portion of child benefit (I have a 10 y/o DD too) once he left school but I filled in the benefits calculator to see what else would…
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Free Childcare Hours
Hi, really hoping someone can explain clearly how the government free childcare hours work - specifically how to calculate net adjusted income as the government advice is unclear and somewhat contradictory. We have a newborn baby who we will be looking to start in nursery in March/April 2025. I will likely earn in excess…
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Carers allowance irregular earner
Hi, I currently claim carers allowance as I care for my poorly wife. I retired 9 years ago aged 51 and live off my pension but, prior to her taking ill, I had a part time job on a zero hours contract. The carers allowance people deemed me to be an irregular earner but about a year ago I gave up the part time job and…
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Will I get a sanction for this??
Hi guys. So I'm on UC and had plenty of face to face appointments with my "work coach" at the job centre but the latest one was rearranged to a phone call appointment last Friday, so that afternoon it was due I received no phone call and no notification of a missed call either, but oddly not long after the call was due to…
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Closed UC account and no longer have access to number associated with account. What can I do?
Hi, I was hoping someone could help me out. My partner has a closed UC account and has since changed his number. As itd closed hes not able to log on and change his details/cannot be sent a text to the old number. He needs to access his statements from 2019 to show he received UC during this time period. But cannot access…
