New council tax benefit
I've filled in numerous benefit checkers and all say that I'm entitled to full benefit (the same as last year) but I have received a bill for £60 per month. Can anybody help me? I've phoned the council...
View ArticleUniversal Credit Transition Period ( Advice Please )
I'm looking for an answer having searched the net i failed to understand. Under current Benefits people get Weekly Tax credits in some cases and fortnight JSA/IS and such in cases. What happens when...
View Articleself employed---if not working can I claim jsa?
Hello. I'm in the process of going self employed as a sole trader. If I don't work immediately can I continue to claim jsa? (as I feel that if I would not be working I would then be unemployed)
View ArticleESA Support Group
How much is the ESA Support Group with DLA middle rate care with no ones carer allowance for her. My friend want to know this as she live on her own with no child. As I am not sure.
View ArticleESA (WRAG) Stopped When Support Group Appeal Papers Filed with Tribunal
Hi, I am looking for a bit of advice as to what is going on with my claim and what to do about it - it looks to me like I have been unlawfully sanctioned for exercising my right to a fair hearing....
View ArticleCan someone please make sense of this?
My cont based ESA ends tomorrow so I got the last payment today, I filled out a form for income based as my husband was let go from his job due to various health problems. I did a joint claim for us...
View ArticleDLA and PIP
I have been claiming DLA Care Component for 5 years (on a indefinite time basis) - I understand that come 2015 (in my area) - I will be reassessed on PIP ? My question is - since my condition is now...
View ArticleIs Universal Credit Dissuading You From Self Employment?
I was just wondering if any of you on here who are contemplating starting their own business are being put off by the this new Universal Credit system that is being introduced? By that, I mean the way...
View ArticleChildcare vouchers taken from SMP?
Hello, Wondered if i have been paid correctly. My work offers 3 months full pay and 6 months SMP. My maternity started 17th Decemeber my full pay is upto the 17th March. Im in salary sacrifice so...
View ArticleHusband's income to fall
Hi, my husband's income Will fall dramatically after the end of may this year, when do I tell tax credits? Can I tell them now or after he has left work. Many thanks :)
View ArticlewORKING tAX cREDIT QUERY
A fairly simple question I wouldve thought but not one i can easily find a direct answer to. If someone was claiming child tax credits, set themselves up as self employed and therefore needed to claim...
View ArticleTax Credits and SMP advice
Please can someone help me get my head around tax credits and SMP? My husband and I have separated and I have one little boy (age 3) and a baby due in 8 weeks. I have been able to claim £19 a week tax...
View ArticleWould she lose benefits for moving?
My mum is a homeowner on pension credit, who needs to move. If she sells her home, before she has found a new home, will she lose her benefits even if her funds are held in escrow for a future...
View ArticleCar Allowance - impact on child benefit
With the recent change in child benefit rules I need to know if a Car Allowance that takes me above £50K annual salary would affect the child benefit we receive. Many thanks
View ArticleConfused by ESA process.
I applied for easy in July 2012. I asked for this to be backdated from April 2012 and sent a letter (with the ESA 1 form) from my hand surgeon covering me from April 2012 to September 2012. Bizarrely,...
View ArticleHow much housing benefit would I get?
Hello, Moving into a new place alone, just wondering if you can help me with how much housing benefit I will get with all the new changes. I get ESA support group, income related and DLA low rate...
View ArticleDirector Self Assessment
Greetings, I have incorporated my small Ltd company in 2006 and started becoming profitable only recently, although turnover is still very small. As sole director shareholder I always paid myself via...
View ArticleESA Fit Note Running Out
Very very quick question. My ESA fit note finishes on the 23rd, I saw my GP today and he "signed me off sick" for a period of a further six months. Do I wait for the DWP to write to me or do I send the...
View ArticleWTC - Clueless to how it works. Advice anyone?
I have luckily never been in a position where I needed to call on the benefits system and as such I have no clue as to how it works. Can any of you lovely people advise? Scenario: Middle aged bloke,...
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