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Hungarian friendly Charities doing grants for Cookers.
We've got a Hungarian Ceramicist, on WTC/CTC and HB/CTB, she's a lone parent and badly (lives in the middle of nowhere) needs a grant to get a cooker. | andyp4 | 18-May-09 08:18 AM
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Payments to Child Trust Fund by ex-partner - not income?
I have a client on Income Support who is trying to agree maintenance payments with her ex-partner. Ex-partner has told her he wants to pay a regular | nickyswllc | 14-May-09 09:38 AM
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DWP maintaining services and meeting targets despite dealing with unprecedented levels of work
I nearly spat my sandwich all over my monitor when I read this article. Wherever do they get their figures from? Yeah, maybe compared to last week the | Dan_manville | 13-May-09 11:42 AM | 0 | 679 |
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Implied Consent
Sorry to raise this issue again but our local DWP office is quoting the Data
Protection Act and is refusing to access any clients details. We cannot | Roy | 12-May-09 07:17 AM
by mike shermer | 7 | 1490 |
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Fraud investigation
Has anyone had experience of a colleague being interviewed under caution in relation to a claim for DLA made by a claimant?
Colleag ue assisted the | chrisb.40 | 11-May-09 09:43 PM
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GIVING AWAY MONEY TO RELATIVES.
As per the Inland Revenue rules someone can give money to their relatives every year. If that someone is a self funder in a Care Home would this then | wba | 11-May-09 01:32 PM
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public funds and an adult dependant addition
My client is a British Citizen. He gets Incapacity Benefit. He has applied for his wife and children to join him and we are expecting that she will | ASH | 09-May-09 01:26 PM
by CraigM | 1 | 690 |
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Appointeeship and late relinquishment
Copied from Disability because it garnered no response so I thought this might be a more appropriate area.
A very general query here.
A charit | Gareth Morgan | 06-May-09 01:15 PM
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I'm off
This is just to let anyone whose interested know that today is my last day with DA, I'm moving on to Gingerbread to work as the Head of Helpline and I | Paul_Treloar_ | 02-May-09 11:25 AM
by Gareth Morgan | 4 | 703 |
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New rightsnet benefit rates posters now available
A copy of our 2009/2010 benefit rates poster is available to download from th | shawn | 24-Apr-09 12:42 PM | 0 | 1223 |
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Income support rates - residential care
Am trying to find out income support rates for someone who was in residential care from 1989. Have managed to find those from 1996 onwards but have b | cwalker | 23-Apr-09 01:09 PM
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Banks appropriating benefit payments
We've been discussing banking practice and the issue of them taking benefit payments to reduce overdrafts.
Is there anything in the regs which rel | suelees | 21-Apr-09 10:07 AM
by Neil Bateman | 4 | 876 |
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Hayward storage
Is anyone else having problems with requesting historical information from the DWP?
Lots of claimants details seem to have been put into storage - | jaykay | 16-Apr-09 01:20 PM
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CIS/812/1992
If anyone has a copy of CIS/812/1992, in which the Commissioner held that a claim made by a person unable to act, or by an 'unauthorised person', is n | Ruth_T | 30-Mar-09 03:16 PM
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Re: Lie Detecting
It appears that the DWP is run by a team of certifiable lunatics. do they have any suicidal ministers likely to authorise this madness? | jj | 30-Mar-09 01:42 PM
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Re: Joint investigation teams
can anyone point me to links to any code of practice or guidelines regarding joint teams?
thanx | jj | 27-Mar-09 09:33 AM | 0 | 499 |
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new living together argument emerges.
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I have said clearly that I was probably spending one or two nights a weekend there early on when I was (working).. It probably is less now. But | Paul_Treloar_ | 22-Mar-09 06:19 PM | 0 | 766 |
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DLA high rate mobility and blindness
I see Shawn has already done a news story on this but i think it is worth highlighting the fact that a significant concession to the Welfare Reform Bi | Paul_Treloar_ | 19-Mar-09 02:22 PM
by wwr | 4 | 1427 |
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new child support court judgment
whilst not routinely publishing child support court judgments to the news area ... here's a link to a summary of a new case that may be of interest .. | shawn | 19-Mar-09 12:51 PM
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Agreeing evidence prior to Tribunal
Hi
A claimant's hearing was adjourned as she provided a large amount of evidence at a late stage. The Judge directed that 'The DWP and Council will | Liz_Wilson | 18-Mar-09 08:02 AM
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right to reside
Hi,
I have had an enquiry that is out of my depth - help please!
Couple with Dutch passports came here 4 yrs ago, husband has worked in the UK - 1y | mkwrg | 13-Mar-09 03:07 PM
by nick nicolson | 1 | 483 |
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ex-gratia payment
Not sure if I am in the right section for this, but I hope someone can help!
This was an income support case. I don't think I need to go into the de | dace | 11-Mar-09 03:48 PM
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Widow's Benefit
I am assisting a lady who is in receipt of the old Widow's Benefit. She also gets IB (LT), of which more below, DLA (HRM/HRC) and IS mortgage intere | KenG | 11-Mar-09 03:28 PM
by KenG | 8 | 793 |
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Education Maintenance Allowance
Trying to assist the mother who's son is at college and should be in receipt of Education Maintenance Allowance, his attendance is as such that he has | Reg R | 04-Mar-09 03:02 PM
by nevip | 3 | 791 |
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Debt centre and overpayment recovery - again
Thought this worthy of a new thread rather than tagging on to the ones below.
We are seeing a worring increase in so called common-law recovery of | Tony Bowman | 02-Mar-09 09:53 AM
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DWP Debt Management - explanation letters
Is this a new thing? Client received PC overpayment letter from Debt Management, we put in an appeal by letter within time. I have now received a lett | BrianSmith | 25-Feb-09 03:38 PM
by nevip | 5 | 1751 |
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Compensation for wrong advice from DWP
I cannot win an appeal for my EU client on her R2R issue, who was wrongly advised to terminate her JSA claim and claim IS as a single parent, by an ad | pclc | 13-Feb-09 01:20 PM
by nick nicolson | 5 | 1138 |
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WRO and Housing Associations
Hi
I’m looking for some guidance on the issues facing WRO working for housing associations.
My colleague and I currently cover 6 housing asso | flair | 04-Feb-09 03:08 PM
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Amount of Capital, how it is spent?
I would like some advice please if anyone can help.
A client recieved £33,000 in February because his father passed away. Within four months all th | Kateormatt | 30-Jan-09 11:36 AM
by pete c | 5 | 783 |
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Free School Meals
Watch out for this in your area.
Sorry similar to my earlier post here
http://www.r ightsnet.org.uk/dc/d cboard.php?az=show_t opic&forum=103&topic _ | billmcc | 29-Jan-09 02:17 PM | 0 | 566 |
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