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Hello could I have some advice please? Am really stressed over it!

Hello! This might sound all a bit crazy but please bare with me. So I claim universal credit I live with my 5 year old daughter. I have had a call saying someone has rang up saying I live with my partner?! Which is ludicrous as for one am single! So don’t even know where this information has come from. Anyway I have to go in for a meeting the 8th of January and take my tenancy agreement and 3 months bank statement this is fine but I pay my rent by cash on the 28th of every month, I don’t know why the landlord wanted it in cash but I don’t mind paying it like that and I have receipts for them all and on my tenancy agreement it says I can pay by cash, check, standing order etc. So is this going to be a problem? Also on November and December you can see where I have took out the lump sum of 500, and on another I took out 300 and then on another day 200 (as this is my rent I pay to my landlord) but in the October my dad gave me £600 as he knows I have been struggling a bit lately so I used 500 to go to my rent so obviously I Haven’t took out the 500 for October’s month rent. I never told universal credit that my dad gave me me £600 so am I going to get into trouble for that? Am really stressed out over it all. Thanks
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@poppy123456 could you please help out with this enquiry? Thanks, @Ails.
Hi, I had to go in for a meeting just this week, I'm on UC, like you. My second cousin has lent me 300 quid recently which was on my bank statement, and no problem, it was ok. So trust you will be ok too.
@poppy123456 can advise you further.
I was just worried they will use the month against me we’re i didn’t take the 500 lump sum out like I usually do to pay my rent, (as stated before my dad gave me money so I just used that as my rent as it’s in cash) do you think I should take along any like council tax bills, gas bills etc to show they solely have my name on too?
Thanks again everyone.
Please let us know how you get on at your interview in January.
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I had to wait two weeks for mine and I'm in counselling for high anxiety and depression, so the wait did my mental health no good whatsoever!
The way that standard letter of theres is worded doesnt help either. Makes you feel like you've done something wrong and you're racking your brains trying to figure out what. Plus the threat of stopping benefits.
The guy that interviewed me couldn't have been nicer and the whole thing went without incident. They just have to check up if someone, usually out of spite or a grudge, reports you for something. Dont let that blankety-blank get you down, and have a great Christmas! It'll be alright.
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