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inheritance
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Does anyone know if a person on benefits comes into money from an inheritance, say £80,000 how long is it protected if it is to be used to purch | lornalf66 | 06-May-08 03:19 PM
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mother and son investigators
Probably a pointless post but I just want to put my niggles down about recent instructions.
Mot her and son respective DWP and LA fraud officers in | suelees | 01-May-08 09:54 AM
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do it online !
thanks to alan franco for alerting us to the launch of 'benefits adviser' on the Directgov website @
http://www.direc t.gov.uk/en/Diol1/Do ItOnline/ | shawn | 29-Apr-08 11:08 AM
by Al Franco | 1 | 622 |
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Supporting People relief payments
Have come accross a problem that I feel I should already know the answer to - but I cannot find relevant legislation / guidance (why does this always | derek_S | 22-Apr-08 06:37 PM
by sanwyp | 10 | 872 |
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DWP strike on 17 and 18 March ...
The Public and Commercial Services union has confirmed that the DWP two-day strike is to go ahead on 17 and 18 March as the Department has not improve | ken | 16-Apr-08 01:59 PM
by Paul_Treloar_ | 17 | 2238 |
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rights to benefit
We are noticing that people coming form abroad are having to wait much longer for CTC and C.Ben, as a qualifying period. Please can you confirm if thi | sanwyp | 09-Apr-08 06:16 PM
by julrob | 1 | 753 |
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capital limits in respite care
I am sure that the answer to this query is obvious and I have simply been looking in the wrong place but can anyone point me to the regulations conce | pc | 03-Apr-08 01:30 PM
by wwr | 2 | 719 |
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LASA'S Specialist Support Service for Wales
Lasa's specialist support service has been awarded a contract in welfare benefits by the Legal Services Commission to provide telephone advice for ser | Essie | 01-Apr-08 12:29 PM | 0 | 1655 |
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recent child support court of appeal judgment
whilst not routinely publishing child support court judgments to the news area ... here's a link to a recent case that may be of interest ......
[a | shawn | 31-Mar-08 12:49 PM | 0 | 549 |
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Re: Leslie Strathie replies thusly ...
is this parliamentary dem0cracy in action?
http://www.theyw orkforyou.com/wrans/ ?id=2008-03-07a.1885 25.h&s=speaker%3A105 96+section%3Awrans#g 188525 | jj | 31-Mar-08 12:32 PM
by Tony Bowman | 7 | 954 |
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Complaints handling within the Department for Work and Pensions
The National Audit Office (NAO) is carrying out a study looking at the complaints handling process within the Department for Work and Pensions - [bloc | shawn | 26-Mar-08 03:03 PM | 0 | 877 |
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Common Law recovery - CPAG Judicial Review
Hello everyone, has anyone heard whether the CPAG were given permission to have this JR, we were on a CPAG course on 5th Feb(many thanks to David Simm | pc | 20-Mar-08 11:21 AM
by shawn | 1 | 967 |
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What books best for advising migrants?
I have very little knowledge of migrants' benefit issues and need to buck my ideas up. My only excuse is that until recently there've been relatively | suelees | 18-Mar-08 03:12 PM | 0 | 510 |
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access to benefits
anyone with knowledge of right to reside issues able to help me with is one?
family consists of a British dad who is working full time and a mum, w | Lin | 15-Mar-08 01:37 PM
by paul__moorhouse | 1 | 579 |
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overpayments & bankrupcty
Secretary of state v Balding,
http://w ww.bailii.org/ew/cas es/EWCA/Civ/2007/132 7.html
Court of appeal decision this morning, agreeing with the 1s | claire hodgson | 14-Mar-08 12:25 PM
by shawn | 6 | 1267 |
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New Blue Badge passes to be issued in a tamper-proof laminated casing ...
New Blue Badge passes are to be issued in a tamper-proof laminated casing as part of a drive to combat abuse of the parking concession for people with | ken | 13-Mar-08 03:10 PM | 0 | 500 |
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jurisdiction of tribunals
Hi everyone,I have a rather unusual query and i wonder if anyone can help.
I have a client who had their CA award terminated when the cared for per | pc | 12-Mar-08 03:10 PM
by wwr | 2 | 628 |
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Any courses in NW for ESA?
Mornin all
Anyone know of any ESA training courses Manchester/Livepool area?
| suelees | 11-Mar-08 11:57 AM
by suelees | 5 | 766 |
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Mother of EEA worker, came to U.K to care for her daughter
Help please.
Client is an established EEA worker who is now incapacitated. Mother came to U.K to look after her.
This is what I need help with. | chrisduran | 27-Feb-08 08:27 AM
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81 voluntarily redundant people with disabilities - can you help?
We have agreed to go next Thursday the 28th and speak to employees at the local Remploy factory which is due to close in early March. Every employee | Erika Helps | 21-Feb-08 03:42 PM | 0 | 702 |
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old textbooks to give away
We are weeding our library of old textbooks and would like to offer to give them away, rather than putting them in the recycling bin. The list include | robbies | 19-Feb-08 11:20 AM | 0 | 540 |
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s.71 SSAA 1992 in Social Security Legislation Volume III,
Hi I have ordered our copy of the above but its not yet arrived. Does anyone have access to this - specfically the overpayments and accompanying comme | cgale | 05-Feb-08 09:06 AM
by Paul_Treloar_ | 1 | 654 |
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Funeral Debts
Rights Advice Scotland has drafted a petition calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to ensure that adequate resources are | Euan_Henderson | 04-Feb-08 09:19 AM | 0 | 531 |
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Undeclared Income
Its Friday and its been a bad week but I couldn't help smiling at the story that Mr Hain didin't declare some income he had had. In the light of Sec o | pc | 29-Jan-08 12:13 PM
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New overpayment argument
Perhaps advisers should be telling their clients to run with the "Hain" defence, the next time they have an overpayment case caused by non-disc | Paul_Treloar_ | 28-Jan-08 06:12 PM
by jj | 7 | 1236 |
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RSLs & verification
We all went on HB training re verification before we transferred over to the RSL...
I have been informed today that the rents team can no longer va | plumduff | 28-Jan-08 03:02 PM
by Gareth Morgan | 2 | 551 |
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Tax Credit threshold for NHS charges exemption
Has the figure for 2008/9 come out yet?
I have seen a figure of £15,575 which I have taken to be the threshold for free school meals rather than NH | GAD | 23-Jan-08 01:47 PM
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confidentiality...
Last night, my local radio station had a piece about another breach of confidentiality - all those letters to people apologising for losing those disc | claire hodgson | 22-Jan-08 09:36 PM
by stevegale | 6 | 929 |
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HB fraud & RSL's
When working for a LA, it is every officers duty to report suspected fraud. So, if a rents officer suspected a tnt of HB fraud, they had a duty to rep | plumduff | 22-Jan-08 12:14 PM
by Neil Bateman | 7 | 956 |
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Re: child support and credit reference agencies
this is the link to the exploratory report, from the recent rightsnet news item -
http://www.dwp.go v.uk/asd/asd5/WP44.p df
if anyone knows what it | jj | 21-Jan-08 03:04 PM | 0 | 464 |
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