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  1. Bowel problems

    an upset stomach once in a while. However, if you're experiencing problems regularly or they're starting to affect your daily life, it's important that you make an appointment to see your doctor.

  2. Debt advice for veterans

    pay your household bills or paying them with credit you rely on your overdraft or credit card to get by you're missing credit card repayments you've started to hide your spending habits from your family

  3. How and why your thinking skills change

    change too. Our thinking skills change throughout our lives. It’s a long period of gradual change, starting in youth and continuing into later life. In this lifelong process, we experience a relatively small ... scientists in the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology. Photo credit: Douglas Robertson

  4. Keeping up with changes to the benefit system

    2024, the new Government changed the Winter Fuel Payment rules so that only people receiving Pension Credit or another means-tested benefit would qualify for it. The decision was met with widespread criticism ... worth getting Pension Credit? Even though older people no longer need to get Pension Credit to unlock the Winter Fuel Payment, it’s still well worth claiming. Pension Credit is a means-tested benefit

  5. Black History Month: 6 inspirational figures

    aged 11, where he went school for the first time. In his twenties Levi served time in prison but credits this as a pivotal point in turning his life around. Before turning his hand too food, Levi had a ... number of writers from the African Diaspora to the public’s attention. Margaret Busby, OBE We started off with virtually no money and thought we would go into making volumes of poetry accessible and

  6. Why is the Winter Fuel Payment so important?

    Age UK, explores the impact of the proposed changes to the Winter Fuel Payment. It may well be the start of the summer holidays, but at Age UK, our work continues all year round and never stops.  As a national ... groups that we’re worried about. The 800,000 pensioner families who are eligible for Pension Credit but aren’t receiving it – perhaps because they don’t know they’re eligible

  7. A guide to income tax for pensioners

    Allowance and Statutory Sick Pay income from a trust. You do not have to pay tax on: Pension Credit Universal Credit Attendance Allowance Disability Living Allowance Personal Independence Payment (PIP) Winter

  8. What to do when your caring role changes or ends

    Carer’s Allowance stops. If you're claiming the carer element in Universal Credit, you should contact Universal Credit to let them know if you stop caring. The carer element will stop if you're no longer

  9. State Pension underpayment errors

    due to DWP computer errors. Here's what that means. In October 2020, the DWP announced they had started to identify and reimburse people affected by this and stated any arrears of benefit due would be ... non-contributory element of State Pension) uplift as they should have been from age 80. The DWP started a formal correction exercise on 11 January 2021 and plans to recruit additional staff members with

  10. How to manage and save money this winter

    someone living there was born on or before 21 September 1959. You no longer need to be claiming Pension Credit or another means-tested benefit to qualify. Find out more about Winter Fuel Payment. Cold Weather ... Pension Credit or are on a low income.  Find out more about Warm Home Discount. Cost of Living payments These are one-off payments for households on means-tested benefits, such as Pension Credit and Universal

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