Claiming benefits can help you in times of need and give a potential boost to your overall family budget, but not all people in Longsight know what they are or that they even exist…Redbrick Academy has identified the 5 main benefits you might be eligible for so that you don’t miss out on any entitlements, and give you some piece of mind…
- Carer’s Allowance:
If you’re spending at least 35 hours a week caring for someone else or a family member, and you earn less than £110 a week, you may qualify for Carer’s Allowance. If the person you are caring for is claiming a benefit due to their illness or disability, it is worth making a claim as you may be entitled to topping up your income with other benefits.
- Disability/Sickness Benefit:
If you are currently disabled, have a long-term or terminal health condition, you may be entitled to Personal Independence Payment (PIP), Disability Living Allowance or Attendance Allowance. If you are not claiming and have a disability, we recommend you enquire about this benefit.
- Universal Credit:
Universal Credit is a new type of benefit in your area, which merges together and is replacing six existing benefits such as Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income-related Employment and Support Allowance, Income Support, Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit and Housing Benefit. It is a new system based on a single monthly payment transferred directly into your bank account. At present, It is designed to support low income, out of work or unemployed families. If you’re working and claiming Universal Credit, then there are no limits to how many hours a week you can be working and claiming, but instead, your amount will gradually reduce as you earn more. This new benefit is being introduced in stages and will only affect newly unemployed people in specific areas. But we advise you to start claiming now as you may have to wait several weeks before your receive your first payment.
- Child Benefit:
You probably already aware that for each child you’re responsible for, regardless whether you are working, you can claim Child Benefit for each child under 16. Do you know that a family with two children can claim around £1,800 a year in Child Benefit, as you can imagine this can give you a boost in your overall family budget. The exception being if you earn more than £50k, then you’re unfortunately ineligible for this benefit.
- Child Tax Credit/Working Tax Credit:
You should also be able to claim Child Tax Credit if you have at least one child and your household annual income is less than £26,000 or less. Same goes for Working Tax Credit, the exception being you need to have a disability, single and working 16 hours or more a week or a couple with a household income of £18,000 or less a year.
Entitled To: Use this to calculate your income-related benefits such as tax credits, contribution-based benefits, council tax reduction, carer’s allowance and universal credit. From there it will show you how your benefits will be affected if you start work.Even though you might think you’re not entitled to claim for any one of these benefits, you should still try claim so you don’t miss out on these entitlements. If you don’t know what benefits you may be entitled to, you can find 1 of 2 of these benefit calculators useful:
Turn2Us: Use this calculator to accurately determine if what benefits you are claiming or otherwise will be affected if you start work or change working hours.
These calculators will ask more specific questions about your savings, income (including your partner’s income), existing benefits and pensions, outgoings, and your council tax bill. Try and fill out to best of your ability to get accurate results on what benefits you can claim.
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