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change of circumstance

Hi there, I have recently started work as an activities support in care. It does not change my pip descriptors. I receive standard daily living. I no longer recieve esa. I was receiving SDP. Switching everything around, I noticed that if I had applied for working tax credit before renouncing esa. That they would have seen my sdp entitlement on the system and awarded me working tax credit with no problem. Unfortunately I renounced esa prior to applying for working tax credit. So even though the last time I received sdp was the 2nd of November. Their system shows it as awarded at my time of starting work. I am so disturbed by this because if I had done this the other way around there would have been no problem. I have written to the HMRC and citizens advice advised me to say that I have recently been in recipet of SDP. The working tax credit office said I could send in a housing benefit letter with entitlement, by the last letter I received of this was from august. As it states on there my SDP entitlement. I also am still severely disabled as my pip describes and as approved at tribunal this year. It makes an enormous difference to my life to receive working tax credit. I live alone and am desperate to dig myself out into a position of being able to not be just making ends meet and to have prospects of one day owning my own home or a mortgage. I also would be entitled to disability working credit with working tax credit\/
I cant believe that a simple administrative error in the order of application on my side could causes such a dramatic difference in my whole life and prospects. One little line missing because I did things in one order rather than another, makes the difference of working tax credit and housing benefit, to U.C of £11 per month and no housing benefit. It is astonishing and nothing in my condition has changed.
Please could you advise me as how to appeal/apply for working tax credit in my situation?
Thank you so very much.
Yours,
I cant believe that a simple administrative error in the order of application on my side could causes such a dramatic difference in my whole life and prospects. One little line missing because I did things in one order rather than another, makes the difference of working tax credit and housing benefit, to U.C of £11 per month and no housing benefit. It is astonishing and nothing in my condition has changed.
Please could you advise me as how to appeal/apply for working tax credit in my situation?
Thank you so very much.
Yours,
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The last time I received esa was the 2nd of November.
I called to cancel this from the 28th of September.
It’s I hadn’t applied for working tax credits first - I would have got them with no problem.
Now I have been advised to say that I have been in recent reciept of SDP and receive PIP and can I please have working tax credit.
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ok I see however the difference is astonishing - from £121 to £47 and without disability working credit.
It really does make a difference to me. I’ve come so far and am shocked at how this could occur.
I have spoken to citizens advice who advise me to insist on progressing my claim and if not - to contact my MP.
The problem I had was that as I started work on the 28th of September- my entitlement is recorded as ending then.
so they have said they can’t see my entitlement on the system. I have written to housing benefit to request evidence - though am concerned I will encounter the same issue.
I have not had a reply from them yet.
Do you have a suggestion as to how I might proceed ? The evidence I have of my entitlement come before this time- August 2020
I no longer receive esa and housing benefit has changed -
I wonder how to obtain evidence of my recent entitlement as of November the 2nd. I made my change of circumstance only a few days after the one month required as I was struggling and still am at work - but determined to stick my ground there.
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I assume this includes evidence of my esa breakdown - I can also print their email 📧 which says of my entitlement to HB based on income esa and pip.
id this the evidence working tax credit will require?
thank you - work is good. It is a bit tough sometimes but I have a goal to save up and buy my own moderate sized house so it is worth it and achieveable.
I hope to do so within five to six years 🤞🤞🤞🌞🌞🌞
im sorry but if no one told me I have one month to apply and I have mental health challenges and live alone - and just gone back to work getting bullied and standing my ground and positivity pushing through despite it all- to stick at work whilst being Unsure initially if it is even feasible - I do believe I have a right to claim working tax credit. I tried calling and couldn’t get through for two whole weeks.
Something’s isn’t right here’s I have written to my MP.
Could you please advise me of how to proceed.
do you have any advice in this regard please ?
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They also said that I may still be entitled to SDP via my housing benefit, And if i can provide evidence of this by DEc !7th they may progress my claim?
I have no idea if I am entitled to SDP via hB, or how to claim it if not or if i can claim it in time.
What would you suggest I do now please?
thank you so very much.
Today I sent evidence to HB for my claim to stay open with them.
fingers crossed.
I was awarded an extended HB payment and have sent in evidence today to keep my claim for housing benefit open.
ESA is how I got entitlement to SDP and they measure it ending at my work start date.
As far as I gather I now need to show entitlement via housing benefit?
I still wonder if it won’t show up on their system - or shown as ending when I started work?
🤷♀️ I really hope not as why ask for evidence this way if they know it wont be there?
I don’t understand how one can apply for working tax credits based on an SDP entitlement because on their systems that shows up as no longer existing at your start date of work.
Anyway fingers crossed 🤞
At the moment to claim working tax credits they say I need to prove entitlement to SDP via my housing benefit.
I am confused honestly.
I have asked housing benefit to send me evidence of this and they said they will send me a letter shortly. Fingers crossed. I don’t know what it is going to say. The last letter they sent to me said I need to ask ESA for evidence.
I was awarded a one month extended housing benefit payment after I started work according to the letter they sent me. They asked for more evidence which I have sent in. To hopefully continue my housing benefit award.
Having said that, I have no idea if it will be awarded or not considering I’m now in work. Fingers crossed as per usual!
It would be quite bizzare not to be as I don’t earn that much. 🤷♀️🤦♀️💖
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