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C.A.
I have a client going to appeal needs special adapted car/van to go work in when school/collage rings drops everything and either sorts young adult ou | sac | 25-Feb-05 12:06 PM | 0 | 428 |
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Working Families Tax Credit
Please can someone let me know if an old overpayment of Working Families Tax Credit can be recovered via direct deductions from current Income Suppor | Flowery | 21-Feb-05 09:51 AM | 0 | 451 |
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Retirement Pension Abroad.
Can someone living in Canada , who is coming up to retirement age , pay additional contributions to his British state retirement pension in order to r | wba | 14-Feb-05 09:29 AM | 0 | 459 |
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Council Tax Disability Reduction
Couple with 2 grown up children living in dormer bungalow. Disabled mother moves in, takes the son's bedroom. Family has to build another bedroom for | GAD | 10-Feb-05 01:48 PM
by GAD | 2 | 669 |
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Crisis Loans
Has anybody else had problems with Jobcentre Plus telling clients that they can't apply for a crisis loan until they have had a new claim interview?
| Danny Murphy | 02-Feb-05 05:21 PM
by jj | 10 | 1250 |
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Funeral Payment
Hi
Hope someone can help. Have a client that has been refused Social Fund Funeral Payment as the body was donated for medical research and therefore | MAGGIEW | 02-Feb-05 03:13 PM
by carol obeirne | 1 | 602 |
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Earnings and Carer's Allowance
Would the money received from renting 2 properties be classed as income or earnings? This relates to the £79 earnings rule for CA | Joe Knight | 02-Feb-05 02:52 PM | 0 | 427 |
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deprivation of capital
i have a client aged 47 who has not claimed any means tested benefits for approx 1 year due to receiving £28.000.00 from the sale of the marital home. | Sayo | 26-Jan-05 11:45 AM
by Sayo | 19 | 1474 |
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Widows Pension and State Retirement Pension
Probably staring me in me face but I'm unsure.
I have a client who is 60 in February 2005 and she is currently getting £79.61 in Widow's Pension as | Amos | 21-Jan-05 06:07 PM
by jj | 1 | 654 |
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Budgeting Loan
I have a client who is 64 years old.She needs to visit her elderly and sick mother in Ghana. Can she apply for travelling costs in this instance? Woul | Kate | 21-Jan-05 03:45 PM
by JonL | 4 | 614 |
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CCGs and capital
Are arrears of benefits disregarded for 52 weeks after they are paid in the calculation of a CCG applicant's income? | Peter Newton | 20-Jan-05 04:11 PM
by Robbo | 1 | 464 |
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child benefit & training allowances???
hello again fellow head scratchers...have a client who has a 16 yr old son(17 on 19/01/05)and they are on an "e2e" entry to employment work based lear | Sayo | 20-Jan-05 08:47 AM
by Sayo | 2 | 521 |
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80% IS during an appeal and the Social Fund
Hello
My client was on Incapacity Benefit and so cannot get a Social Fund CCG. However she has failed her Personal Capability Assessment and is cla | Dan | 17-Jan-05 12:52 PM
by Tony Bowman | 1 | 530 |
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Carers Allowance and fluctuating income
Hi, I wonder if someone could clarify how earnings are asssessed for Carers Allowance purposes, where earnings fluctuate:
Have read CPAG p.926:
| jo gallagher | 14-Jan-05 04:31 PM
by jack | 1 | 626 |
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Disabled Facilities Grant
Would be grateful if anyone has information about the relevent income thresholds for entitlement to Disabled Facilities Grants if claimant is not on I | southwestlaw1 | 14-Jan-05 02:36 PM
by southwestlaw1 | 4 | 627 |
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Children in care and Child benefit
My client has a son who has learning difficulties and has been placed in a boarding school by the local authority.
He comes home for the usual sch | Dan | 13-Jan-05 02:41 PM
by Derekbell | 1 | 444 |
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CCGs and Direction 4(a)(iii)
Does a homosexual partner count as family under Direction 4(a)(iii) for the purposes of applying for a CCG? | Leo | 13-Jan-05 11:40 AM
by nevip | 2 | 466 |
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Bereavement Payment
Claimant over pension age refused BP on the grounds that spouse was receiving a Category 'A' Pension when she died. Advised by Pensions Service that | Gill | 31-Dec-04 11:57 AM
by SNOWDEN | 1 | 695 |
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CCG - Whose claim?
Hello. Can anyone help with this CCG question? Client claimed £2000 worth of CCG for disability related equipment. Unusually high capital at the date | ghcharter | 20-Dec-04 12:08 PM
by ghcharter | 3 | 578 |
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Winter Fuel Payment & DHP
I have been looking at the Winter Fuel Payment Regulations and can't find any provision for it to be excluded from the calculation of entitlement for | tonysykes | 15-Dec-04 01:00 PM
by tonysykes | 3 | 540 |
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child benefit priority
Have a case where partner claiming child benefit leaves and is no longer responsible for the children and not maintaining them but does not report thi | dmoore | 14-Dec-04 09:48 AM | 0 | 523 |
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CCG interpretation of family
I have a client who is an asylum seeker with ILR, living in furnished accommodation who has had her application for a ccg to buy a washing machine tur | ali l | 14-Dec-04 09:39 AM
by ken | 4 | 591 |
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cohabiting grey matter...
hello again all...have client who dwp have said was cohabiting with boyfriend.client states that they weren't but because of boyfriends circumstances, | Sayo | 10-Dec-04 09:10 AM
by Sayo | 3 | 752 |
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REA...HELP!
DWP have lost clients file, client has been in recpt of REA for about 20 years. DWP are now paying by interim payments, they say as file has been miss | Suzanne | 26-Nov-04 04:27 PM
by jj | 2 | 588 |
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Child Benefit and Immigration status
Hi all,
I have had a call from a woman who is in the UK on a work permit with no recourse to public funds, with her husband both of whom are not EE | Big Lee | 25-Nov-04 10:08 PM
by davidp | 3 | 825 |
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CA and sdp
I've a couple on RP and IB who are both on qualifying rate of DLA and have underlying entitlement to CA so get the couple rate of both the cp and sdp. | suelees | 24-Nov-04 04:06 PM
by suelees | 2 | 509 |
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Old Working Families Tax Credit
Anyone know where I should contact to get info about a WFTC claim from '99-'00? Client needs proof of start date and rate of payment. The revenue don' | Damian Walsh | 19-Nov-04 12:34 PM
by Andrew_Fisher | 1 | 457 |
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Carer's Allowance and SSP
Our client's wife receives MRCC of DLA, and nobody is claiming CA for looking after her. The client is currently receiving SSP and is unlikely ever | ruth | 17-Nov-04 10:40 PM
by billmcc | 1 | 579 |
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joint residence order
Divorced parents have a joint residencey order on a 50%/ 50% split for their single child. Mother has been refused HB to cover 2 bedroom house rent ev | southwestlaw1 | 15-Nov-04 01:03 PM
by stainsby | 2 | 763 |
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new Job Grant
Looking for the Statutory Instrument with the rules for the new Job Grant from 25 October - have found the one which amends the Back to Work bonus and | rwils | 11-Nov-04 11:36 AM
by shawn | 6 | 813 |
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