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young person in LA care i would be be very grateful if someone can tell me the answer to the following.
16 year old young woman who is in the care of the local authority. | Derbyshire | 06-Dec-06 04:24 PM by Derbyshire | 2 | 528 |
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Funeral payment - travel costs Is there a precedent (or Commissioners Decision) to support paying part of the cost of a limousine for travelling to a funeral, for the person arrangi | WRA Longsight | 30-Nov-06 01:56 PM by judithH | 1 | 558 |
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Social Fund loan and debt advice conflict My client took up a Budgetting loan of £1000 to be repaid at £14.25 pw (70 weeks) last March and is unable to keep up with her rent and CT obligations | Patricia P | 30-Nov-06 10:58 AM by Patricia P | 2 | 725 |
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Portuguese client and Child Benefit for kids in Portugal Hi,
I have a Portuguese client, married to her Portuguese husband with three children, two of whom live in Portugal with relatives. Both have been | ljl | 28-Nov-06 06:15 PM by ljl | 2 | 645 |
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Education Maintenance Allowance Hi
Several months ago we were contacted by a client who had lost his job and started claiming means tested benefits. His daughter applied for her E | Victoria Todd | 28-Nov-06 01:22 PM | 0 | 490 |
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Funeral payments for still bourn child Hi guyes,
My collegue has a client who has had still bourn child gestation 23 weeks 5 days, Social fund have refused funeral payment as they say th | Phil Wiley | 23-Nov-06 03:05 PM by Phil Wiley | 2 | 649 |
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Benefits arrestments Hi
Can someone direct me to the Regulations dealing with arrestment of benefits (client is in receipt of DLA and ICB)? I'm wondering whether this | Lorraine B | 23-Nov-06 10:46 AM by shawn | 3 | 604 |
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British Evacuees from Lebanon and Child Benefit Hi All,
I am working with a British overseas passport holder who arrived in the UK following the July evacuation in Lebanon this year. She fled into | Francis N | 17-Nov-06 02:28 PM by Francis N | 3 | 681 |
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Funeral Payment - Arrears of IS as an asset
IS paid a few days after client's husbands death to cover the eleven days up to his death. He was the claimant (purely for convenience as client co | Tim arnold | 06-Nov-06 03:16 PM | 0 | 1010 |
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child benefit this child has been on an interim care order for several months, however now spending 3 days and two nights with birth parents, can they now claim ch | brooksie | 31-Oct-06 11:56 PM by Mick | 1 | 622 |
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sure start maternity grant Does anyone know what legislation covers claims for Maternity Grants?
As far as I can tell it isn't the standard claims and payments regs, nor the | Tony Bowman | 17-Oct-06 10:39 AM by Tony Bowman | 4 | 690 |
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CCG for travel expenses to funeral Hi all,
Need a bit of help on this, bit rusty with the old CCG applications!!
Cl ient wants to claim travel expenses to attend the funeral of her | Big Lee | 16-Oct-06 04:36 PM by Tony Bowman | 1 | 536 |
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Duty to Advise Hi Folks
I Know this has been asked before but I need reminding.
When our council send out HB & CTB awards they show the claimants income and th | billmcc | 13-Oct-06 12:58 PM by mike shermer | 2 | 744 |
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home responsibilities protection I have a client, 60 next January, who has been informed by the contributions agency that her pension is less than full because she had a certificate ( | Alan Hind | 11-Oct-06 03:24 PM by Alan Hind | 5 | 594 |
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industrial injuries disablement benefit examination
hi guys can anyone assist me in relation to IIDB.
repersented a client at an industrial injuries disablementbenefit appeal. Client basically has | salma | 05-Oct-06 04:08 PM by Ruth_T | 5 | 618 |
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a8 national and child benefit for child in poland ... hi all.
have client who has 16 year old daughter at college in poland.
was receiving c.t.c/c.b for child but this stopped end of aug 06.
am i rig | Sayo | 03-Oct-06 12:57 PM | 0 | 632 |
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Social Fund Review Service My old website address for the independent review service doesn't work. Have they 'moved'? | Damian | 03-Oct-06 10:03 AM by Margie | 1 | 447 |
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sending Maternity Allowance claim forms to JC+ A client of mine has been having huge problems getting JC+ to accept her MA claim. First of all she went to her local office (Lewisham) in person - th | rachelh | 02-Oct-06 04:01 PM by rachelh | 6 | 673 |
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CCG waiting times Hi
as part of my job I support clients in applying for Community Care Grants; I'm reasonably competent at this but by no means expert.
Process | Helen Anderson | 27-Sep-06 03:25 PM by knowsley cab | 10 | 1031 |
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Lebanon evacuees and the Budgeting Loan rule about 26 weeks on IS or ibJSA Does the Budgeting Loan rule about being on IS or ibJSA for 26 weeks apply to people evacuated to the UK as a result of the recent armed conflict in t | robbies | 22-Sep-06 11:11 AM by robbies | 3 | 618 |
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carer's allowance and SDP I'm posting this because I'm scared that this case seem too cut and dried and I might be missing something.
Client had carer up until October last | ali l | 08-Sep-06 10:46 AM by Margie | 10 | 1436 |
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Overpayment of RP and AA after death Hi I would like some help please from all of the experienced WR people out there. I have an elderly client whose husband died recently. She registere | fair | 07-Sep-06 12:19 PM by northwiltshire | 4 | 833 |
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Kinship Allowance We have just come across a case where the term 'Kinship Allowance' has been mentioned. Has anyone heard of this allowance? Is it the same as Guardian' | whitegates | 05-Sep-06 11:42 AM by wwr | 3 | 1633 |
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Child Benefit Can anyone help. I have an appeal against o.p of CB. The situation is that 2 single parents have married but are notliving together and never have. Th | Rosella | 01-Sep-06 03:21 PM by shawn | 2 | 567 |
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reciprical agreements Does Great Britain have any receiprical agreement or arrangement with Australia, to enable someone to receive GB benefits, including DLA | steve_h | 01-Sep-06 12:08 PM by Margie | 5 | 583 |
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Supporting People Hi i was wondering if someone could shed some light on this one. I have Owner Resident querying Supporting People for Owners. The Association recent | anadeem | 29-Aug-06 10:49 AM by alban | 2 | 531 |
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Community Care Grants and people moving from Supported Housing We are a small housing charity based in NW England. Lately we have been running into problems with claiming CCG's on behalf of our service users movi | thl2003 | 25-Aug-06 02:40 PM by BrianSmith | 1 | 470 |
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Amended meaning of dependent 'young person' Hi,
Just wondered if anyone can define the legal meaning of 'a contract of employment', as in 'Approved training not provided through a contract o | hain | 25-Aug-06 11:43 AM by claire hodgson | 5 | 569 |
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War Widows Pension and SRP I understand a Retirement Pension can be paid in addition to a War Widow's Pension as long as the RP is based on the surviving patrners own NI contrib | Jo Woodcock | 25-Aug-06 10:57 AM | 0 | 362 |
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Funeral grant appeal conundrum Man applies for funeral grant for his sister's burial as he believes (unfortunately) that as eldest of the siblings he should take responsibility. Man | stevegale | 23-Aug-06 07:59 PM by stevegale | 3 | 665 |