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Help Regarding Benefits
Hi Was wondering if someone could give me a better estimate of what me and my girlfriend will be entitled to later in the year. I tried using that Entitledto website but it said we would only receive £10 a week and I wern't sure if this was correct or not. I work 12 hours a week and earn £300 a month, I'm also a full time…
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Working 29.5 hours - need 30: Any Ideas How?
Hi Everyone, I've managed to secure two jobs but the hours total 29.5 hours!!!! :o To claim WTC (I do not have children), I believe I need to be working 30 hours min. per week. I am commuting to London from far away, and so this leaves me potentially - If I can survive the travel _pale_ - with Tues, Wed eves free, and also…
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How can I help my friend, she desperately needs to move.
I'll post as much as I can, hopefully I know enough about her situation to get some help. I'm going to go with her to the CAB as soon as I can. Basically, my friend is desperate to move. The area she is in has a lot of bad memories for her, and she is now a few weeks sober and is struggling to not drink when surrounded by…
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Child benefit problems.
I've spent the best part of a month trying to get through to the C. Ben hotline :mad: to reclaim for my DD (18) who has gone back to full time college. I filled in the online form with all the details but have had no confirmation email, nothing at all. If I should ever manage to get in contact with them, will it be…
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Some questions for a kind benefits expert?? Pretty please
I have a few questions I feel I need to get my head around before we try and apply for any benefits we may be entitled to when our baby arrives at the beginning of November. I'm sorry if I come across a bit clueless about it all, but to be honest that's really what I am, and I'm quite worried about it. 1.) How long after…
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Why can't they find out
My brother is a self-employed plasterer who has recently been laid off. Anyway, for the first time in his life he went to make a claim and has got nothing. Tell a lie he has been told he can get free eye tests and a dental check-up. That is of course if he can find a dentist. The reason they gave him was that he has more…
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Claiming Jsa
I was made redundant in June this year and have been claiming JSA. My boyfriend has just set up a LTd company installing Double Glazing And is requiring himself me and his mother all to be directors shareholders in the company. On his accountants advice, to reduce his tax bill. If we were to do this would this affect our…
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Council Tax & Housing Benefit HELP!!
Hey guys! Not sure if I'm posting in the right place, please lemme know if I'm not!! I was recently made unemployed, so went for JSA. Then applied for COuncil Tax and Housing Benefit. Got a letter through saying I would get both, but have to pay £40 a month for water/sourage rates, and also all they are paying for my rent…
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Help please - ctc/ wtc
I have recently split from my boyfriend of 9 years, we have 1 yr old son. but due to financial reasons we are still living at the same address but we are not living like a couple. we have to keep the mortgage up and I can not do that on my own, working p/t only on 6k per year and he will not be able to pay his half if…
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Housing Benefit chasing me for money I don't owe
Basically HB keep hounding me for benefit they supposedly paid after I ended my claim, but the thing is they owe me money for the month prior to the end of the claim. I have spoken to them 6 times about this, and every time they agree that I am in the right, and they will get the cheque out to me right away. Of course, the…
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benefitshelpline.com AVOID!!
I wanted to get me laddos child benefit number because I want to change the account it goes into.. So I google and come up with http://www.benefitshelpline.com Yeah that will do, I can either phone them at £1.50/min !! !!!!!!? no way. Or submit and online enquiry. Yes thats better. I do so, fill in my deets..press…
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Tax Credit underpayment effect on HB/CTB?
Hi there, Wander if anyone can advise, i have just gone on to SSP after being ill for several months, now i was recieving about 50p a week housing benefit/ c tax benefit after my new tax credits award was calculated in april. I also recieved a lump sum last month from tax credits due to an underpayment of tax credits from…
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Need some help/advice
Hello, My husband will be going into hospital soon to have major surgery, we dont know how long he will be off work for. He is 61, i am 57, i work 15.5 hours a week earning £100 a week. His employer does not pay sick pay, so will he be able to claim some benefits, does he need a doctors note. Should he have paid national…
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CTC Nightmare
Up until April this year i was self employed but earning approx £120 a month, and recieving CB CTC and WTC and partial HB. My income began to drop drastically so i took the decision to give up work for a while and regroup, i made a claim for IS and phoned Tax Credits and gave all information. I sent my renewal form in July…
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Huge one off payment, debts and Income support
I borrowed a lot of money £30k from my ex-boyfriend 2 years ago to pay off various debts. I now broke and am on income support but I desperately want to pay him back. Good news is that I am going to get a compensation award soon of £25k. The problem is it will be written out to me, I will have to bank it and then write…
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Don't know what I would be entitled to
Long story short...after a load of hassle at my last job, was forced to leave but given a sum of money to 'keep quiet' shall we say. We have been living off that money since May, but it is about to run out. My husband earns around £600 per month working part time, we have a mortgage of around £900 a month, two children…
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Job Seekers Allowance
Hi, i was wondering if anyone could help me here, my boyfriend graduated this summer and with the economy being the way it is has really struggled to find a job. He applied for JSA about 3 moths ago, and because we live together they obviously wanted to know about my working info. I'm a fulltime student at University who…
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Expert advice please - reducing savings to 6k
I've recently stopped work to look after my kids and we will now be eligible for more more tax credits and possibly council tax benefits - except- we have a bit more than 6k in savings, which I know impacts the benefits. My question is: if I were to put some extra money into our mortgage to take savings down to 6k would…
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Tax Credits say they no record of paperwork
Hi all well i posted earlier and got some good advice so i am back again :D My earlier message was about tax credits wanting details i thought were invasive and ott. Well i rang the number on the letter got the most unhelpful non apologetic woman ever :mad: According to this person the claim is only registered in my name…
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New ESA & Income Support - please tell me I'm reading this wrong...
As a disabled claimant on both Incapacity Benefit AND Income Support I've been researching the new ESA rules which are coming into force for new applicants next month and for the rest of us in 2010-ish. The IB aspect doesn't worry me much, as having looked at the rules I'm likely to qualify for the Support part of the…