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Benefits help
My wife and I are both pensioners receiving standard pensions, we have no savings or any other income but fortunately we are mortgage free. My daughter died on Boxing Day and we are now guardians to two wonderful grandchildren aged 11 and 15. We have applied to receive child allowance and a guardian allowance, as yet heard…
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Which benefit am I better off on?
This discussion was created from comments split from: ESA/UC support group .
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Everyone Working
Targeting the long term sick into finding work or will lose their benefits. This Government wants no one claiming benefits.
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Rachel Reeves budget for disabled
After a high court judge making money saving cuts for disabled illegal..How is Reeves still seemingly going forward with Disability cuts ?
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Letter to Liz Kendall
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Hi, my name is lucyf75! Hello my son receives pip and he has come out of education will I loose my..
Hello my son receives pip and he has come out of education will I loose my son disability I get on my universal credit with him coming out of education he is 17
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Disabled Adult Full-Time Education
Hi Wonderful Community, I have a quick question…What benefits would I lose, and which ones would I keep if I plan to take a full-time course as a disabled adult? Will I be eligible for any discounts? Thank you!
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PIP ASSESSMENT (HP report)
Had my pip report today been on it for almost 5 or so years and this is my first ever assessment. problem is DWP have down about the abuse that happened during my childhood which related in pregnancy I kept my baby I honestly think I'd off died if it continued once I found out I spoke up and told professionals Problem is I…
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From today's Guardian - carer's allowance overpayment whistleblower blocked by DWP
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/03/dwp-blocked-whistleblower-giving-evidence-to-carers-allowance-review
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Claiming carers allowence, working part time but make to sell at home how does it work?
Hi there i hope someone can help and hope this is the right place to ask this as i did talk to citizens advice online but all they kept doing was giving lings to carers allowance info which did not answer my questions. right now i work 25hr per week on minimum wage but also i am registered as a sole trader with the…
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LCWRA
hello I got awarded lcwra 25/09/23 with first payment February 8th 2024, awarded 14month it's coming to end around march/april, can anyone tell me what happens next what's the process, will I have to do all the forms again and have another assessment. I rang uc yesterday asked about the same as what I've asked here, and…
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Help with wife getting state pension and benefits
Hello everyone, I'm new to this group, just wanting advice from anyone in my situation regarding my wife who turns 66 on the 8th December, she claims PIP,and EESA ,and I claim Carer's allowance. She has had a letter off the DWP asking her how she wants to have her State Pension paid, does anyone know if she has to inform…
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NICS Class 2 overpayment letter from HMRC
Hello Scope team ! Another one, I’m unsure about . Today my husband received a letter from HMRC stating that he has over paid his NIC class 2 since 2017, however just before he got LWRCA a couple of weeks ago, his NI was as it should be yet now it states that he was claiming as a disabled person or carer or were on…
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Misinformation about disabled mental health
Misinformed people about how easy it is to get benefits ..and their opinion whats best
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Uc, LCWRA and council tax
Hi my friend recently had to migrate over to UC, from his esa benefit, but he is a disabled single dad of 2 kids, one of which turned 16 in July but is still in full time education,the other child is 14, he recently had a bill from his local council wanting him to pay 25% of the council tax on the property he lives in with…
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Hip replacement
good afternoon. I’m new on here and was hoping someone can advise me please. I am a full time carer for my father and work part time in evenings. I claim UC and get the carers element. I’m due to go in hospital to have total hip replacement and Iv been reading that I won’t be able to drive or do much for around 6 weeks. Iv…
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WCA mandatory reconsideration
Hello, I've gone through WCA assessment and was deemed 'don't have limited capability for work and maybe able to do some work' (whatever that means, since it's 'maybe'). I have requested medical report and asked for mandatory reconsideration. The medical report is full of incorrect, misrepresented information and some…
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DWP: Where Has Basic Etiquette Gone? Are We Just Numbers Now?
Hi Scope community, Have you ever received an overpayment letter from the DWP? If you have, I urge you to pick it up, read it again word by word. Now, tell me this: Did you see the word “please”anywhere? I recently received one demanding a repayment of £3000, and not once did it contain a simple “please”or any form of…
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Unsure about marital status for pension
I have received my pension invitation today, I have gone online but have a problem. One of the questions is marital status, I have been seperated from my husband for many years only going as far as the decree nisi. It doesnt give me any other option other than married or divorced. I have been living with my partner for 16…
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Rules on couple claiming care support?
This discussion was created from comments split from: Can I claim PIP , LCWRA and carers allowance at the same time .
