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JSA notification letters please?
I have an appeal on Friday and the decision maker has produced what I think is a nonsense submission again. Does anyone have sight of a JSA notificati | ellie | 16-Mar-05 05:09 PM
by Cicero | 10 | 716 |
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Bank Accounts
Hello
I have a case of a 40 year old man with multiple sclerosis, receiving invalidity benefit and attendance allowance with IS top up (2 kids). Noti | befuddled | 16-Mar-05 06:23 AM
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Earnings disregards
Can a client receive a £20 disregard from a boarder in addition to the £20 earnings disregarded from employed work? I can't see why not, but somethin | Danny Murphy | 15-Mar-05 04:16 PM
by Cicero | 1 | 309 |
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IS for increased Housing Costs
Is there any caselaw to clarify how 'the special needs of a disabled person', referred to in IS Regs Schedule 3 para 4 subpara 9, should be interprete | Peter Newton | 15-Mar-05 12:19 PM
by ken | 1 | 270 |
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JSA sanction
hi
i am trying to find some sort of decision or law that can help me argue a JSA sanction appeal. Client attended jobcentre and signed on for the d | salma | 14-Mar-05 11:40 AM
by simonennals | 2 | 545 |
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JCP Training/Contracts
Just heard through the grapevine that all mainstream Jobcentreplus provision in Cornwall has been withdrawn; providers have been given notice of termi | stevehaz | 14-Mar-05 09:39 AM
by Andrew_Fisher | 2 | 386 |
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Right to reside and Income support
we have two cases of a german national and a portugeese national who have worked in this country for many year, paid taxes and have left work to have | sarc | 11-Mar-05 02:27 PM
by keith venables | 1 | 544 |
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Property as capital
Hi,
I am currently working on case where a woman (registered blind, post kidney transplant) has had IS withdrawn, due to capital, where the capital i | Claire | 10-Mar-05 02:01 PM
by Tony Bowman | 5 | 669 |
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EU nationals and Pension credit
I have read through the discussion on RTR test and I wonder what chances does EU nationals over 60 have when claimimg IS. Brief, my client is original | tienga | 10-Mar-05 09:40 AM | 0 | 293 |
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Maladministration by DWP
My colleague is due to present an appeal on behalf of the Pension Service at a Tribunal on 21 March and he would like to know if anyone can point him | judithH | 09-Mar-05 04:58 PM
by Cicero | 1 | 671 |
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Hinchy
I'm moaning on about Hinchy in the HoL again - I think I've got a look-alike case.
High care, so Enhanced DP; rightly reduced to mid-care a year | jimpepin | 07-Mar-05 10:25 PM
by jj | 3 | 677 |
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New baby - change of circumstances
I have a client who has been continuously iro IS for last 18 months. In September she had her first child.
I have asked IS to do a supersession, o | Emmab | 07-Mar-05 03:54 PM
by Emmab | 2 | 338 |
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EC Reg 1408/71
Despite going on training courses and reading loads on it I still can't properly get my head round the application of this regulation.
This is supp | andyplatts | 03-Mar-05 08:39 PM
by robswad | 1 | 371 |
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estrangement rules for claiments under 18 on income support
I work with a number of pregnant clients who are usually under the age of 18. A number of these clients, until recently have been able to claim the hi | Allan Boot | 01-Mar-05 10:53 AM
by BrianSmith | 3 | 650 |
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Re: habitual residence nonsense.
i'm intending to make a complaint to the parliamentiary ombudsman on an HRT appeal, which we won, but which should not have had to go to the tribunal | jj | 28-Feb-05 07:59 PM
by patpaul | 5 | 898 |
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Income Support for 18 year old refused
I am working with a young person who has been refused income support for a reason I have never heard of and don't understand - need some advice!
Sh | jrevest | 28-Feb-05 07:44 PM
by patpaul | 4 | 797 |
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EU nationals
I have a client who is an EU national who came to the UK to look for work after 01/05/04. She claimed JSA despite being a lone parent and was awarded | Victor Ridding | 26-Feb-05 03:28 AM
by robrob | 25 | 2434 |
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Section 117 payments
Liverpool Social Services are in the process of reimbursing clients who were subjected to aftercare provided under Section 117(of the Mental Health Ac | karencarfoot | 25-Feb-05 08:07 AM
by stephenh | 2 | 459 |
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IS entitlement dependent on DLA award
My client received DLA middle care rate for about 3 years, ending in Decmeber 2004. He was also on IB, but no-one pointed out to him while he was on | rachelr | 24-Feb-05 12:34 PM
by ken | 4 | 570 |
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JSA and disability premium
This may sound like a bit of an odd question but a client of mine has just received DLA Low Mob but is on JSA and would like to carry on signing on ra | Leo | 24-Feb-05 12:12 PM
by Andrew_Fisher | 3 | 372 |
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Earned Income Disregards - Increasing the Levels
The levels of earned income disregards for people in receipt of welfare benefits have remained virtually unchanged and pitifully low since the 1980s. | Aaron Barbour | 23-Feb-05 02:29 PM
by carol_laidlaw | 2 | 439 |
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Income Support
Is it possible to get help with mortgage interest on a mortgage taken out whilst on Income Support after a seperation.
Clien t diagnosed with breast | Dparr | 23-Feb-05 10:10 AM | 0 | 385 |
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Income Support/Incapacity Benefit backdating
The problem that I have got is that my client's claim to income support, a decision has been made to back date to 05th November 2003, this is because | Tarzier | 21-Feb-05 01:20 PM
by nevip | 1 | 538 |
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Reg 19(5)(d) - New Commissioner decision on backdates
Commissioner Levenson has given a decision, in a case represented by LASA's appeal team, that is potentially helpful to claimant's seeking a backdate | Martin_Williams | 21-Feb-05 11:58 AM | 0 | 318 |
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Capital, separation, and future interest in property
I was interviewing about something else entirely, when my client asked about the following situation :
He separated from his wife and children seve | Robbo | 18-Feb-05 08:14 AM
by Robbo | 2 | 435 |
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auto-migration IS >>> CTC: anything happen 29.01.05?
29 Jan was a common date being suggested by many local JC+s for forced migration off old-scheme IS and onto IS+CTC. What is the experience so far? Are | expresstraining | 16-Feb-05 02:39 PM
by jimmckenny | 8 | 519 |
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Common Household
Does anyone have a copy of, or a link to,the Santos v Santos ( 1972) Court of Appeal All ER ruling quoted in CIS 4935/97 which deals with 'common hous | judithH | 16-Feb-05 07:16 AM
by judithH | 2 | 342 |
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Prisoner's housing costs
Can anyone help me. I have a couple who were living together before he was remanded in custody. She works over 24 hrs a week self employed but has a | GwendaE | 15-Feb-05 10:33 AM | 0 | 281 |
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NI Credits
client not entitled to JSA, only NI credits. Does he have to claim JSA first? or can he just make a claim for credits only? If so how?
Thanks
Suzann | Campbell | 14-Feb-05 06:43 PM | 0 | 274 |
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Pregnant 17 year old
Client is 17, pregnant,estranged from parents, has left school and is not working. She lives at her boyfriend's mother's house with her boyfriend. He | Ros_Thomas | 14-Feb-05 08:30 AM
by glenys harriman | 1 | 463 |
Income Support & Jobseeker's Allowance
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