Please can anyone give me some advice or reassurance? My wife's daughter has this morning received a letter from DWP dated 26th August that her IS has been stopped as of 7th August. This was not so unexpected as she split with her partner on that date and he moved out officially on 15th August. What was unexpected was that when she called them to find out what to do about a new claim she was informed that she should not have been receiving any IS at all since they moved in together in July last year and they are reviewing her case. She must also make a fresh claim. The woman on the phone did admit that my stepdaughter had told the DWP at the time (she actually had assistance from some sort of family support worker to fill out the forms and has a benefit award letter stating 'Benefit paid for you and your partner' meaning they definitely did know) but she also said the DWP had made an error and she should have been denied IS altogether. She is disabled and has 3 dependent children all under 8 and is now unexpectedly skint as she didn't realise some of the payments she had thought were being made into the bank weren't! She now has to wait for this review to happen before she receives any more IS. To cap all that off, her recent new HB and CTB claims have also been put on hold whilst the matter is resolved, she moved into a new rental property on 16th July and still hasn't received a bean meaning she is already £1700 or so in rent arrears. Questions:- 1. How long is this DWP review process likely to take and is there any way to push for a speedy resolution? 2. Is it likely she will be asked to repay this 'overpayment' by the DWP? 3. Is it likely she will be asked to pay back some or all of the HB and CTB that she received for the previous period when they were living together. 4. What is likely to happen with this new claim for HB and CTB after the DWP review is complete? Would her HB payments be affected for the new property i.e. reduced payments? Many thanks in advance, worried stepdad and landlord!!!

Hi I need to come off income support as my husband has secured work - how do I do this ? I will still qualify for my incapacity benefit will all payments stop until paperwork sorted out? I currently have my bills paid directly from benefit will I still be able to do this? I am about to log on now and get my husband to sign off his carers allowance as that seems easy What do I do about changing details in Child Tax Credit to have reductions in payments applied? Can anyone confirm if things detailed below are correct? Please £250 payment as bonus for getting back into work? 1 month run on for SMI payments 1 month run on for council tax? Council tax has been paid up to end of March do I make full payments from there on in or wait for bill? My husband has taken on this position even though its at a childs wage we will, I hope be £5 a week better off?? I need to pay all bills weekly so I can keep my head above water so ideally would like to set up regular payments now before I end up behind or they even ask for £ But with Direct fuel payments i am worried as there is an arrears balance and I dont want them to start court proceedings just because payment not coming from DWP If things don't work out and he doesn't keep the position will there be a big delay in income support being reinstated (especially the SMI part) I need to ideally sort this all out today as my head is working Any advice you may be able to offer would be great OSW