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toodles
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Hi!
Hope someone can advise because I'm sick with worry. I have suffered with a severe anxiety disorder/mood swings/social phobia/ chronic fatigue syndrome for quite a few years. I am a single parent with one dependent child at home but luckily get support from my older children. I've been on income support for years after my divorce and around a year ago was advised I needed to have a covering of incapacity benefit so that i would no longer have to go to lone parent meetings and embarrass everyone with panic attacks and also because a law was coming in that anyone with a child of 12 or over would have to come of income support and go onto jobseekers allowance etc. I got my incapacity covering so that would not happen due to my condition.
Anyway, around 1 week ago I received a letter that said that my son had just reached the age of 14 [which he did 2 weeks ago] and so i was going to be no longer entitled to income support. I have trouble concentrating and remembering things etc so forgot about it. Yesterday I received a letter saying the following:
About Your Income Support
Following my letter of 5th October, I am writing to tell you that as you are no longer responsible for a child under the age of 14, you have ceased to be entitled to income support. You should claim jobseekers or Employment and support allowance instead.
I have no idea what to do. How can they give one weeks notice that they're stopping your money? They gave me an incapacity covering so I wouldn't have to have interviews etc and said my condition was one that mean't I didn't have to. This letter has come out of nowhere. Nobody has ever said that once my son reached 14 I had to apply for something else. I've gotten this notification a week before I get my income support and now will have no money this week as i guess i won't get paid.
Also it is complicated even further because on the 18th of september i was awarded higher care tier disability living allowance and lower care mobility and have had letters from income support saying i am entitled to backdated severe disability premium. I realise i will still get moneys backdated while i was on income support but why bother sending me forms for ongoing premiums if I'm not going to be on that benefit. I'm ok typing here, but i know i wont' apply for any new benefit and will simply go without because I cannot go through yet another interview/medical with yet another stranger. Is it possible for me to just live on child tax credit and child benefit?
Does anyone know what's happening and why i was given no notice of this?
Any help would be appreciated.
Hope someone can advise because I'm sick with worry. I have suffered with a severe anxiety disorder/mood swings/social phobia/ chronic fatigue syndrome for quite a few years. I am a single parent with one dependent child at home but luckily get support from my older children. I've been on income support for years after my divorce and around a year ago was advised I needed to have a covering of incapacity benefit so that i would no longer have to go to lone parent meetings and embarrass everyone with panic attacks and also because a law was coming in that anyone with a child of 12 or over would have to come of income support and go onto jobseekers allowance etc. I got my incapacity covering so that would not happen due to my condition.
Anyway, around 1 week ago I received a letter that said that my son had just reached the age of 14 [which he did 2 weeks ago] and so i was going to be no longer entitled to income support. I have trouble concentrating and remembering things etc so forgot about it. Yesterday I received a letter saying the following:
About Your Income Support
Following my letter of 5th October, I am writing to tell you that as you are no longer responsible for a child under the age of 14, you have ceased to be entitled to income support. You should claim jobseekers or Employment and support allowance instead.
I have no idea what to do. How can they give one weeks notice that they're stopping your money? They gave me an incapacity covering so I wouldn't have to have interviews etc and said my condition was one that mean't I didn't have to. This letter has come out of nowhere. Nobody has ever said that once my son reached 14 I had to apply for something else. I've gotten this notification a week before I get my income support and now will have no money this week as i guess i won't get paid.
Also it is complicated even further because on the 18th of september i was awarded higher care tier disability living allowance and lower care mobility and have had letters from income support saying i am entitled to backdated severe disability premium. I realise i will still get moneys backdated while i was on income support but why bother sending me forms for ongoing premiums if I'm not going to be on that benefit. I'm ok typing here, but i know i wont' apply for any new benefit and will simply go without because I cannot go through yet another interview/medical with yet another stranger. Is it possible for me to just live on child tax credit and child benefit?
Does anyone know what's happening and why i was given no notice of this?
Any help would be appreciated.