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Help with NHS costs when self employed
Moirashere
Posts: 4 Newbie
I'm self employed and applied for Help with NHS costs and sent in the forms on 10th April 2019 after ringing the NHS on advice on what I should send in as I hadn't done my paperwork for 2018-2019 tax year as yet. On the 30th April I received a letter from them as they needed further information, quote:
"send us a copy of your profit and loss account IF you have one. This must relate to a period of at least 6 months but not more than 15 months and ending within the last 12 months; OR complete the form using the information from your trading accounts."
I did this using 1 April 2018 until 30 September 2018 and emailed this to them on the 30th May. Two days later received the same letter from them but ignored it thinking it had crossed in the post. After two weeks not hearing from them I rang them up to enquire and was told that they hadn't got my email so I sent it again (from two different accounts in case it wasn't getting through). Next morning I took a call from the assessor telling me to stop sending the same information as it was not correct. In fact she told me it was for only 5 months which was incorrect. She said what she wanted was my accounts that ended in 2019.
Completely confused now as this all contradicted what was being asked on the forms, I posted a message on their Twitter help page. Was told different things by two different advisors. One agreeing with what I said and one saying that mine "Ended more than 6 months prior to the date they received my claim (26th April)"and agreed all I need to do was to re-send adding October. This I did but this morning I received an email from my assessor now asking for the whole of the 2018-2019 tax year!
Any one else had problems like this and being self-employed? Apart from sitting in the next few days to complete the rest of my accounts when I should be attending to my business, has any one got any advice?
Thank you
"send us a copy of your profit and loss account IF you have one. This must relate to a period of at least 6 months but not more than 15 months and ending within the last 12 months; OR complete the form using the information from your trading accounts."
I did this using 1 April 2018 until 30 September 2018 and emailed this to them on the 30th May. Two days later received the same letter from them but ignored it thinking it had crossed in the post. After two weeks not hearing from them I rang them up to enquire and was told that they hadn't got my email so I sent it again (from two different accounts in case it wasn't getting through). Next morning I took a call from the assessor telling me to stop sending the same information as it was not correct. In fact she told me it was for only 5 months which was incorrect. She said what she wanted was my accounts that ended in 2019.
Completely confused now as this all contradicted what was being asked on the forms, I posted a message on their Twitter help page. Was told different things by two different advisors. One agreeing with what I said and one saying that mine "Ended more than 6 months prior to the date they received my claim (26th April)"and agreed all I need to do was to re-send adding October. This I did but this morning I received an email from my assessor now asking for the whole of the 2018-2019 tax year!
Any one else had problems like this and being self-employed? Apart from sitting in the next few days to complete the rest of my accounts when I should be attending to my business, has any one got any advice?
Thank you
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Well if that's the info they need, you'll need to send it to them.0
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