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carers premium and the work focussed interview My client is a lone parrent and a carer for her disabled father. She recieves Income Support with a carer premium.
She has been told by one arm of | retrochav | 27-Nov-08 02:55 PM | 0 | 510 |
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£60 xmas bonus some further info coming through on the £60 payment to be made to those entitled to a xmas bonus announced in this week's pre-Budget report ...
.. | shawn | 27-Nov-08 10:06 AM | 0 | 554 |
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Social Fund contact I'm looking for direct contact details for the various SF sections/alpha splits at Chorlton.
I don't know whether it's coincidence that they ".... | suelees | 24-Nov-08 02:03 PM by suelees | 2 | 538 |
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War Pension - Application for a review. I notice that Form WPA0012 sent in response to an application for review of a War Pension award, now contains an added paragraph...
"Unf ortunately | johnwilson | 21-Nov-08 10:26 AM | 0 | 499 |
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Sure Start Maternity Grant Client was refused SSMG. She didn't bring in decision and from what she tells me I can only assume it's because of the low rate of TCs currently being | suelees | 17-Nov-08 10:52 AM by suelees | 7 | 1204 |
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Carers Allowance - Aiming High Does anyone have any information as to whether Aiming High payments made by a local authority to contract type carers looking after children with disa | Derbyshire | 14-Nov-08 03:56 PM by Paul_Treloar_ | 2 | 461 |
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CCG for adaptations to a car. My client would like to have a Community Care Grant to fund the provision of what is to all intents and purposes a sort of crane to lift her power whe | pete c | 12-Nov-08 07:43 AM | 0 | 465 |
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Bereavement benefits I heard a rumour that these were under review - does anyone know if this is true and if so what paramenters are. | ASH | 04-Nov-08 05:05 PM by ASH | 2 | 681 |
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Hungarian National and SRP I have a Hungarian national who has been in the UK since 2004 to work and became 60 in June of this year. Previously, she tells me she has 34 years of | jryan | 30-Oct-08 01:53 PM by Katerina | 1 | 569 |
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Social Fund Did I read somewhere that the 6 month qualifying period was being abolshed for B/L's?
Or am I going mad? | steve_h | 28-Oct-08 02:07 PM by Euan_Henderson | 1 | 697 |
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Child Benefit - children taken into temporary care Our client has left partner. Children since been taken into temporary care as concerns re them continuing to stay with other parent. Our client pa | fionaj | 23-Oct-08 03:43 PM | 0 | 503 |
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Armed Forces Council Tax Relief I have a client whose husband has recently been deployed to Afghanistan. They have some debt and I am helping with some related issues. I am aware t | caro s | 22-Oct-08 09:36 AM by shawn | 3 | 772 |
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Child Benefit I have a client who has claimed child benefit and has been told that the claim could take 12 weeks to be paid. Knock on effect to Tax Credits, and oth | matherj | 10-Oct-08 03:38 PM by 1964 | 4 | 914 |
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Child benefit-shared care Hi guys,
An old chestnut here. Does anyone know if the case of Barber v Sof S 2002 is the authoratative case on the shared care issue for Child Ben | pip01 | 06-Oct-08 04:09 PM | 0 | 631 |
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CB abroad - getting stuck in the regs. Hi,
Going around in a bit of a circle with EU Regs and CB - can anyone help me fit it together?
Clients are UK citizens and they went to Spain w | suewelsh | 02-Oct-08 04:00 PM by murr | 1 | 630 |
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Social Fund payment A tenant applied for a CCG and was refused. I completed a review with the tenant and this was faxed through on Thursday. On Friday lunchtime the tenan | Am | 25-Sep-08 12:04 PM by Am | 5 | 708 |
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a2 national benefit entitlement ... ... hello again to all :)
have a cl. who is bulgarian and is in receipt of i.s, h.b / c.t.b.
she is due to start work 15/08/08 and will claim w.t. | Sayo | 23-Sep-08 05:05 PM by Antonina | 10 | 1246 |
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Child Benefit I wonder if anyone has a professional number for Child Benefit much like we do for Tax credits and DLA? Its driving me crazy trying to get through to | charliek | 09-Sep-08 09:56 AM | 0 | 495 |
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Direction 7 - repeat applications for CCGs and CLs The time limit for doing repeat applications has just been changed from 6 months to 28 days. I haven't seen it publicised anywhere and no legislation | Daphne | 08-Sep-08 03:12 PM by shawn | 6 | 538 |
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CCG problems Had a conversation with a worker from Bolton DWP, apparently Chorlton are so busy they are picking up some of their work. She rang me about a young mu | jules smith | 04-Sep-08 10:39 AM by jules smith | 3 | 680 |
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Social Fund Urgent Query - can this be correct? I have just been informed by Social Fund that they are unable to award Crisis Loans where the applicant is not in receipt of a benefit from which the | Liz S | 02-Sep-08 11:16 AM by jj | 2 | 670 |
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Education Maintenance Allowance I'm trying to help one of my clients get EMA.
He's aged 17 and no longer living at home. He's been supporting himself by working and 'sofa-hopping | jaykay | 29-Aug-08 03:43 PM by nevip | 3 | 543 |
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Carers Allowance and EMA We have a client whose husband receives DLA MRCC and for whom nobody receives CA. She works FT and receives WTC + CTC for 2 children.
Their daugh | Ruth_T | 29-Aug-08 08:43 AM by Jane80 | 1 | 448 |
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Repaying a BL client says she never took out I have a client who has been asked to repay a BL of £500 from 2006, which she says she never requested or received. I've asked the DWP for a copy of | chrispudd | 27-Aug-08 12:58 PM by chrispudd | 4 | 583 |
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Community Care Grant for repairs to a mobility Scooter We've got a client (a lone parent with a disabled 11 year old son) whose disability Scooter needs estimated £400 worth of repairs, she is profoundly d | andyp4 | 27-Aug-08 09:02 AM | 0 | 459 |
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Social fund appeals it is currently taking our local office 3 months (minimum) to process crisis loan appeals, that is despite having taken on new staff to rtry to deal w | southwestlaw2 | 22-Aug-08 04:09 PM by southwestlaw2 | 6 | 790 |
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"Trying to run a full train timetable whilst relaying the track.....".
The above is a quote from one Neil Couling, the JCP gentleman responsible for the delivery of working age Benefits in general and the Social Fund | mike shermer | 21-Aug-08 07:02 PM by stevegale | 1 | 525 |
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Child Support I do not have much to do with CSA cases but I have had an enquiry from a client and would be grateful for any help.
Client has one child who lives | roecab3 | 13-Aug-08 03:51 PM by johnwilson | 1 | 715 |
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Child Benefit and 'Interruptions in Education' Hi,
I urgently need a copy of Commissioner's Decision R(F) 3/60. We're getting a number of cases where parents of learning disabled children have c | alacal | 13-Aug-08 02:58 PM by pboyd | 1 | 493 |
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deposit of a funeral a client who was claiming IS jointly with his wife all paid to her. The wife has passed away so that claim has stopped. He has put in a new claim for | karengrimes | 08-Aug-08 07:57 PM by ariadne2 | 8 | 702 |