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Community Care Grant I hope someone can advise me. We resettled a young person from one of our hostels into a local authority property in May. At that time she was not a | irene | 01-Aug-08 12:52 PM by irene | 4 | 973 |
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In Work Emergency Discretionary Fund Hi,
in the latest of the DWP's touchbased there is reference to help for lone parents from April 2008 and reference is made to the In Work Emergenc | roecab3 | 22-Jul-08 03:33 PM by ken | 5 | 1798 |
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studnet support regs: definition of "independent" eligible student
Hi out there
This concerns an 18 year old student wishing to apply for student support. He is disabled and has been getting Incapacity Benefit | lancsrights | 22-Jul-08 01:36 PM by cgale | 1 | 628 |
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Right to Reside Hi there!
Yet another problem re right to reside, but this one is slightly different.
My learned colleague Pete has a client who has dual Nationalit | Michyblue | 18-Jul-08 05:50 PM by ariadne2 | 2 | 604 |
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Capital Rules Hi,
Looking for some help with one of my clients. She has her own tenancy, pays a mortgage and is seen as a single claimant for benefit purposes a | adviceshop | 18-Jul-08 07:45 AM by adviceshop | 5 | 650 |
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Polish nationals and benefits Have got a very interesting situation which I hope someone can give me some advice on.
Young Polish lad (25) arrives in the UK on 16/2/08 and subse | Geraint Jones | 17-Jul-08 03:41 PM | 0 | 568 |
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Kenyan national and urgent case payment Hi
I hope very much someone can help me with this. I work for a housing association so it is rare for me to encounter a client with these difficul | Jro1 | 10-Jul-08 03:18 PM by roecab3 | 3 | 638 |
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Demand for o/p back to 1986 Can anyone help??
Just seen a gentleman who has received a demand for an overpayment raised in 1986, they are going to deduct from his ongoing ben. | charliek | 09-Jul-08 02:55 PM by charliek | 2 | 692 |
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Social fund funeral costs Has anyone heard of a client getting any help from the social fund to go to New Zealand to collect their fathers ashes as he died while visiting there | Sayo | 04-Jul-08 12:46 PM by nevip | 4 | 943 |
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Helpful Child Benefit Office
I made what I hoped would be a quick phone call to the Child Benefit Office, as I just wanted the fax number to send in an appeal which was nearing | Robbo | 24-Jun-08 02:22 PM by JonL | 33 | 3813 |
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Foster carers with over 18's Anyone else deal with Leaving Care/Foster carers?
Just been told about an article in Community Care Magazine regarding new DWP rules implemented on | jules smith | 17-Jun-08 11:59 AM by shawn | 9 | 1262 |
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Child Benefit - interruption in education I spoke to a parent today on our Helpline whose severely disabled son has been unable to attend education since he was 13 - now 16 1/2. In September t | Derek S | 16-Jun-08 12:18 PM by Derek S | 2 | 1163 |
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IIDB/REA Hi everyone,
Can you tell me if IIDB is paid after retirement age. I believe REA is paid as Retirement Allowance but can't find confirmation re IIDB. | ljl | 16-Jun-08 08:22 AM by shawn | 6 | 781 |
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Benefit issues - couple one has right to reside other doesn't Turkish couple with 6mth old baby. Father has British passport and wife was smuggled into the country no right to reside
father has claimed CB and i | LA | 07-Jun-08 10:56 PM by mitch | 3 | 1004 |
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CSA I know nothing about CSA so hopefuly someone can provide anwers :
I have client married with two children . He receives a service pension , War pensi | SueL | 07-Jun-08 09:56 PM by mitch | 1 | 649 |
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Asylum seekers and non means tested benefits Could someone more versed in immigration issues help me here - do asylum seekers have the right to work?
My understanding is they used to in the pa | pclc | 05-Jun-08 01:51 PM by keithven | 1 | 595 |
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Crisis Loan Refusal - JSA online application Hi,
I tried for a crisis loan the other day for a client who has missed a jsa interview 6 weeks ago. It looks like the claim was closed down. Subsequ | stuartgardner | 04-Jun-08 10:32 AM by Euan_Henderson | 2 | 1174 |
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Child Benefit & Adoption Allowance Can anyone help on this one please? Client and husband are adopting two children which will be placed with them initially for about 3months before the | SueArchard | 29-May-08 12:02 PM by wwr | 6 | 2035 |
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Made me laugh... Just looking at the bereavement benefit section of CPAG and came across this..
"To qualify for bereavement benefits you must be a widow, widower or | pipkin | 23-May-08 01:17 PM by nevip | 6 | 1412 |
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carers allowance term time My client works in a school 39 weeks full time a year but is paid an average wage over 52 weeks. If she gets paid term time only instead could she ge | SuzyW | 20-May-08 02:32 PM by johnwilson | 1 | 620 |
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Funeral Payments:- Offsetting Debts from Estate?. Is there any form of debt which can be offset from the estate of a deceased person in order to prevent the deduction of the "value of the estate" from | Paradoxides | 19-May-08 12:58 PM by Paradoxides | 4 | 706 |
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Sure Start Maternity Grant and PFA Hi guys
We've got a bit of a problem in here and I am looking for a wee bit help!
Client (male) has british passport, but partner has no recours | adviceshop | 16-May-08 09:57 AM by nevip | 1 | 584 |
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Winter Fuel payments Trying to understand how much people will get this year. Not including the extra household payments, am I right that couples on PC will get £200 each? | Heather | 16-May-08 09:31 AM | 0 | 516 |
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Free School Meals for 16 / 17 year old Care Leavers? The legislation / guidance seems to state that free school meals only apply in very prescriptive circumstances:
if the parent/guardian/stud ent is i | lisag | 01-May-08 02:55 PM by nevip | 1 | 697 |
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Crisis Loans & Interpreters The local JC+ keeps sending people who need to use interpreters to us to make the telephone applic for a crisis loan. Our interpreter budget is takin | SuzyW | 26-Apr-08 06:08 PM by paul__moorhouse | 7 | 1889 |
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Several Issues + Students This encompasses several benefit issues - IS/JSA/HB/CTB, didnt know where else to put it... so hope here is ok..
Client - mature student, live | pipkin | 23-Apr-08 03:15 PM by pipkin | 1 | 628 |
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Right to reside - reference to ECJ I'm not sure whether this is the right forum but advisers may be interested to know that the CA has today made a reference to the ECJ in a homelessnes | Paul Stagg | 21-Apr-08 12:29 PM | 0 | 666 |
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funeral payments and h.b ... ... probably seems like a silly q. for a cls benefit adviser but can a person receive a funeral payment from the social fund if they only receive hous | Sayo | 17-Apr-08 01:32 PM by Sayo | 4 | 736 |
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help with health costs Does anyone see any hope in this scenario:
Claiman t on IB does not realise this is not IS and gets free dental treatment. Later the NHS write to as | suewelsh | 17-Apr-08 12:06 PM by andyp4 | 4 | 749 |
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Child Benefit telephone numbers Anyone got a number for the Persons from Abroad Team at Child Benefit? They have decided that it is top secret this morning. Not like everyone's bank | Damian | 15-Apr-08 10:06 AM by Jane80 | 1 | 640 |