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SEVERE HARDSHIP PAYMENTS
. Can someone give a brief outline of severe hardship payments particualarly when realeted to 16 to 18 year olds - wouldn't normally ask but it's | mike shermer | 21-Jan-09 03:15 PM
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Right to reside
Ok.....in this area we do very few of these - in fact i cannot remember my last one! Not sure where to start and hoping someone can help.
Client i | bensup | 20-Jan-09 11:26 AM
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Premiums and DLA and NHS care
I am currently trying to calculate someones Income Support. He is funded by health on a continuing care basis, so is only entitled to DLA at a daily r | Barbara Knight | 19-Jan-09 10:51 AM | 0 | 340 |
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Student Bursary overpayment and non payment of IS
My client was a student nurse who had to leave her course due to ill health. She was paid a monthly bursary, the last month being paid in error and S | ali l | 19-Jan-09 10:23 AM
by Ali Lord | 6 | 573 |
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Mortgage interest increase in capital limit for existing claimants
Just to clarify the rules concerning the increase in housing costs from 100,000 to 200,000.
Am I right in thinking that existing recipients of mort | Scott | 16-Jan-09 04:28 PM
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IS housing costs - prisoners on remand
Hello,
Can anyone confirm if remand prisoners can get help towards their mortgage interest payments if they were not on JSA/IS before they went int | greenwich | 16-Jan-09 11:04 AM
by nevip | 2 | 324 |
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ISMI rates
Does anyone know where I can find, or who publishes, a table of the ISMI standard rates for the last few years?
I've been browsing google for the l | Tony Bowman | 16-Jan-09 08:53 AM
by shawn | 4 | 449 |
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Kaczmarek
I've been told that one of my cases is stayed behind Kaczmarek vs Sec State...
I can't find it using the Court Service listings calendar and suspec | Dan_manville | 15-Jan-09 12:04 PM
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Cohabitation decision IS stopped - what can my client claim?
Hi All,
Have searched the forums about this already and have gleaned a few tips but hoping some more light can be shed on this one. I have a client l | SueArchard | 14-Jan-09 09:07 PM
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Severe Harship Payments and NFA
I have a report from another agency of high levels of refusals of JSA (SHP)s to young people of NFA. s16 of the JSA Act contains no restriction, and n | Steve Johnson | 13-Jan-09 04:49 PM
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39 to 13
Looks a good move to lower the waiting period for mortgage costs but does ISMI kick in at 100% after 13 weeks. If it does then it looks more advantage | Semitone | 12-Jan-09 11:29 AM
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very urgent - evidence of delay for worker registration certificate
This thread is related to this one:
http://www.r ightsnet.org.uk/dc/d cboard.php?az=show_t opic&forum=103&topic _id=6401#6418
M y client's appeal i | Tony Bowman | 09-Jan-09 04:45 PM
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Couples and sdp/cp
My client is one of a couple who were both on DLA HRC and HRM. He's just lost his completely (cheers DAIS) but is appealing.
They were on IS only | suelees | 09-Jan-09 03:51 PM
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Capital "choses in action"
I have a case at the upper tier tribunal. My client lost his appeal, and it was decided that they had notional capital over 50k. They gave £40k to the | m wilson | 09-Jan-09 01:51 PM
by m wilson | 2 | 398 |
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Couple - Only 1 is a carer.
I have a couple who have just married - so ending her entitlement to IS as a lone parent. Her father gets AA so she is thinking of claiming CA and get | Herbert | 08-Jan-09 12:55 PM | 0 | 308 |
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Lump sum payment via mortgage protection policy
Help, I have never come across a scenario like this before and am struggling to advise client.
Client has been getting help with mortgage via a mo | Derek S | 07-Jan-09 03:51 PM
by johnwilson | 3 | 452 |
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Backdated IS for refugee where status document issued late
We have client who applied for asylum in mid-2005 and Home Office (Oakington) decided in mid-2006 'to grant asylum and leave to remain in the UK for f | TimKell | 06-Jan-09 01:20 PM | 0 | 284 |
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Treatment of WTC run-on as income
Are WTC run-on payments taken into account in full as income in means-tested benefit claims for the four weeks in respect of which they are paid ? | Peter Newton | 06-Jan-09 08:40 AM
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Circular 10/08 - Transitional (Part 2) SMI - 8 week limit puzzle
The circular ..
http://www.rig htsnet.org.uk/pdfs/I S_JSA_Bulletin_10_08 .doc
.. says that, for people already on a relevant benefit at 4/Jan/09, | Jon_Blackwell | 05-Jan-09 02:30 PM
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Right to reside refused to german mother of two
My client (a German citizen) has lived in UK 6 years, trained as a teacher and worked for at least a year as art teacher in the UK until she had her 2 | mircam | 02-Jan-09 05:59 PM
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Drug Treatment and JSA
i am currently supporting an 18 year old who is due to enter a 3 week detox program as an inpatient for a heroin addiction in the new year. They curre | hellsbells23 | 30-Dec-08 03:21 PM
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back to basics - what counts as income?
hypothetically.....y oung person living in private rented accomodation, is getting IS, has fallen foul of the LHA under 25 rule so is only getting 1/2 | southwestlaw2 | 30-Dec-08 03:19 PM
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Carers and work focused interviews – not waiving but deferring?
Am I right that the new regs (SS (Incapacity Benefit Work-focused Interviews) regs 08) mean that from 15/12/08 the wfis can no longer be waived, only | Jane80 | 29-Dec-08 01:14 PM
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SDP backdating on Income Support
I hope you can help with this one. Client's wife left him in 1994 and at the time he was in receipt of Income Support for the whole family and DLA hig | Geraint Jones | 23-Dec-08 03:05 PM
by ariadne2 | 6 | 528 |
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right to reside for a family memeber
i wonder if anybody can assist. i have a polish national. who was married to her polish husband they entered uk dec 06. husband was working and regist | sukhdev athwal | 22-Dec-08 05:06 PM
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Residence Permits
Won't go into too much detail, but I could do with checking the veracity of a residence permit and was wondering whether anyone's any experience of so | Dan_manville | 22-Dec-08 08:38 AM
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HOUSING COSTS - Q & A ISSUED BY JCP
Changes to Support for Mortgage Interest with effect from 5 January 2009 - Questions and answers
What are the main changes being introduced? | mike shermer | 19-Dec-08 04:50 PM
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IS award ends - backdate WTC claim?
Not sure whether to post this in IS or TC forum but here goes:
Client started work on 10th October 2008 but is currently in receipt of SSP – has be | Don C | 19-Dec-08 01:58 PM | 0 | 266 |
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Trust Funds
I'm seeing a new client for a DLA appeal. He mentioned he has a TrustFund and that his Solicitor recommended that the compensation he received from an | dbcwru | 18-Dec-08 03:41 PM | 0 | 274 |
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An immigration post that doesn't involve the right to reside!
Ye Gods, I've got a traditional HRT appeal, I'm feeling old :)
A bit of a strange one as well. Mother of a refugee comes over for the 1st time on a | Dan_manville | 18-Dec-08 10:19 AM
by Dan_manville | 9 | 752 |
Income Support & Jobseeker's Allowance
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