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Migration to Universal Credit from Child Tax Credit - confused!
We currently get a small amount of Child Tax Credit and have received the letter to migrate over the Universal Credit. We get child benefit, husband works and we have savings over the £16K limit. Is it actually worth moving over as although I keep reading about transitional protection for 12 months does husband working…
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Benefits and NI
Hi all, my first post here. i checked my NI Contributions and from 2018, until present, my years are not full. my youngest child turned 12, so I know child benefit would be discounted then but I was on a joint claim of income related ESA with my partner who was in the support group and I was his unpaid carer. I thought…
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Daughter leaving full time education, what next?
Hi all, Daughter will be leaving full time education soon, and will be job hunting, fingers crossed has a job lined up before leaving. I work full time, partner out of work at moment due to ill health. We get Universal Credit so not sure how it works next. Once Daughter leaves, do I need to add her in some way to our joint…
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RISHI SUNEK DID IT
exactly who will benefit this £1400 for us pensioners. I get a full state pension plus a small private pension of which I pay roughly £40 a month in tax. wife still working but retires at the end of August. we don't claim any kind of benefits ,don't know if I'm entitled any. no kids or dependent. nat ins ends with a 0. so…
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Migrating to UC after a SDP back payment
Hi all, I will inevitably need to migrate to Universal Credit at some point in the near future. Around 2 or 3 years ago, I received a £16K back payment from the DWP due to the fact that an error was made, by myself and/or the DWP, in terms of not claiming severe disability premium. Today, most of that remains unspent (I…
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Work Capability Assessment (LCWRA)
Hi, I had appointment with my GP on Monday to get a three month fit note to start the process of LCWRA as at the moment I am on LCW, but I need to get on to LCWRA as my mental health is bad and I also have new conditions (agoraphobia and social anxiety) which my GP has put them on my medical records and I just want Job…
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The rich get rich and the poor get poorer
After marital breakdown and several years of waiting my local council rehoused me into an adapted property as I have very poor mobility so the house has a stairlift and a level access shower which is ideal. I am on benefits due to disability and I am in receipt of universal credit,Employment and support allowance and after…
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Family member, 60, widowed, on ESA. What might she be entitled too, please?
Hi, as stated in the title. R, female, was married for several decades. Her husband, sadly, died a couple of days ago. She is off work, having been dismissed while recovering from an operation, (Now looking at unfair dismissal, but that's a different story!) and is receiving ESA. Can anyone tell me, and thus her, what she…
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Inheritance in a trust and UC
Hello, My father passed away last year and left the house in a trust which provides that my stepmother continues to live in the house as a life tenant and is entitled to 50% of the house, and the other 50% will go to me, my three brothers and another third party when the house is sold after my step-mother dies. One of my…
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Housing benefits
I currently am unemployed and get UC and housing benefits. I have started talking to my partner about moving in together with her school age child but would need to be bigger while still being close to the school. Do you think enquiring about moving in to a different place would bounce me off the benefits as she has a job?
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Carers Allowance Closing claim as overlapping benefit
We are a mixed age couple. Myself IR ESA ,DLA high care, low mob Partner SP, PIP High on both care and mob My partner the older one at 66, was/is on CA for myself ,but that has stopped in payment now,as an overlapping benefit to his SP. However, they are still taking it out of my IR ESA as income. He was advised to phone…
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Benefits and mortgage
My partner and I recently split. We have a mortgage together and children. So for that reason we are not selling the house right now as I am not working. Can I claim any benefits if my partner is still down on the mortgage? Not sure how it all works. He hasn't moved out yet either not sure if that affects it. But he will…
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Migration to UC - What Should Happen with My 18 year old Special Needs Child?
I have received a UC Migration Letter. Currently on Legacy Benefits (Income support and SDP, Carers allowance, HB, CB, Child tax credits - including disability amounts for my son). My son has just turned 18 (so an adult), is still attending a specialist school and will be for another academic year. I have until 25th July…
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ESA Text help
Phoned ESA yesterday to inform of a address change. Have just received a text today from ESA saying. I'm on contribution based support group. Can't phone them now untill Minday any idea why they have sent me this text? We need to talk to you about your address, failure to call us will affect the regularity of your payments…
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DWP Under pay of Universal Credit - when not in work
I have been doing seasonal work the last few years while waiting for when i can claim my state pension. All was fine until January of this year ( 2024) when the Universal Credit payment was cut in half, as they claimed that i had been working in December 2023, when in fact my job had finished at the end of October and my…
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Confused.
Hi I'm looking for advice. My child is interim care while I fight to get them back. As my child is not in my care can the sure start maternity grant be backdated as they will be 6 months old or just over if they come home? I have parental responsibility but shared with local authority or can I apply now because I have…
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Tax question . Help me make sense .
Both my wife and i are pensioners .We both have private pension's and oap . After rise in oap we were looking forward to a little more money but . After tax man changed my wife's code she has went from 1170 pounds a month in her account down to 983 pounds . Tax free amount has changed from 1918 pounds to 1085 pounds . Tax…
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PIP Renewal Appeal question
If I win my PIP appeal does the tribunal award start from the point that the renewal was returned or the decision date which was a year later? or does the award start from the date that the tribunal makes its decision? What I am trying to understand is the possible likelihood that after the appeal I will be due for renewal…
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Housing benefit overpayment - help please
Hi.A few years back I was claiming HB as my household's income was not sufficient to cover our basic living expenses. After a year or so the HB office asked for bank statements which I duly provided. It turned out most of the time my capital actually exceeded the qualifying threshold set by the government - not by much, on…
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UC and self assessment owed
Hi, need some advice pls. I was self employed from Apr 23 to Sep 23 and have worked out I will need to pay roughly £1300 in tax and NI. I know I won't be able to afford this so am thinking about asking for it to be collected through my PAYE as I've been employed since Sep 2023. I seem to meet all the criteria. What I'm…