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APH News Spring 2013 April 2013 PIONEER NEWS Spring 2013 People making the news in the St. Peter’s area of Ashton-u-Lyne WIN £25 Internet drop-in sessions COMPLETE ENCLOSED QUESTIONNAIRE ON OUR REPAIR SERVICE at the tenants base SEE PAGE 13 FOR MORE DETAILS APH and REACH have worked together and installed internet access in the Tenants Base! Residents can call in on Tuesday afternoons between 1pm and 3pm for free access to the computers. Residents can use the internet to search for a job, help with benefits and housing benefit claims. We have also introduced “One To One” sessions where residents can spend time learning basic I.T skills. Residents will get help setting up email accounts and Facebook pages supported by local volunteers and staff from Ashton Pioneer Homes.We are also going to host a session on Social Media for Beginners. You may be aware that Ashton Pioneer Homes and Pioneer People have two Facebook pages, and residents are encouraged to “like” these pages. We use these pages to share information about Welfare Reform and other relevant topics. We also give regular updates on the Community Groups and what the Resident Involvement Team has been up to. If you would like to find out more or book a session please contact Nicola on 0161 343 8128 or call in to the office. UNIVERSAL CREDIT IS COMING TO TAMESIDE THIS MONTH Did you know? Universal Credit is a new type of financial support for people of working age who are looking for Universal Credit will be a work or on a low income. It’s being introduced in Tameside from the 29th April 2013 onwards. single, monthly payment into What is Universal Credit? Universal Credit will replace: • Working Tax Credit your bank account Universal Credit is a new simpler, • Income-based Jobseeker’s • Housing Benefit single monthly payment for Allowance If you’re on a low income, you people in or out of work, which • Income-related Employment will probably still get Universal claimant commitment which merges together some of the and Support Allowance Credit when you first start a clearly sets out your responsibilities benefits and tax credits that • Income Support new job or increase your part- and the consequences if you fail you might be getting now. time hours. Your Universal Credit • Child Tax Credit to meet them. If you are worried won’t suddenly be taken away, about how the changes will Please Like us on Facebook but steadily withdrawn as your affect you and your family, www.facebook.com/ashtonpioneer earnings increase. All Universal please contact us for more and Follow us on Twitter @AshtonPioneer Credit claimants will have a information and advice. Inside... Universal Credit A Guide to Basic Facebook Pioneer Panel Money Matters! coming to Tameside Bank Accounts Explained!!!! Challenges APH 2 Pioneer News Spring 2013 HOUSING MANAGEMENT Universal Credit: from 29th of April 2013 if you make a new claim for benefit and you live in OL6, OL7, M43 & SK16 postcode areas of Tameside you will be claiming Universal Credit An introduction to Universal Credit : The Government say Universal Credit will introduce greater fairness to the welfare system by making work pay. Despite considerable welfare spending in recent years, the current benefit system has trapped more people in poverty than ever before. Universal Credit will ensure that work is the best choice for individuals or families and provides a route out of poverty and away from benefit dependency for thousands of people. CLAIMING UNIVERSAL CREDIT Commitment but this will not ask you to introduced Universal Jobmatch (www. Most people already use the internet to carry out any job seeking activities. gov.uk/jobsearch), a new online service access services and to get information UNIVERSAL CREDIT PAYMENTS to help you find jobs that match your skills and experience. You can build and instantly. Under Universal Credit, you Universal Credit will be paid monthly, upload a CV, tailor your job preferences WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU can make your claim online at www.gov. directly into the account you have chosen. and receive messages when suitable Universal Credit aims to sweep away the uk/universalcredit. If you are part of a couple, living in the new jobs are advertised. complexity of the current system and If you cannot claim online, face to face same household, and both of you are provide a single monthly payment if you and telephone support will be available claiming Universal Credit you will receive UNIVERSAL CREDIT AND EMPLOYERS are on a low income or out of work. It will until you can get access to the internet. one monthly payment into one account. Universal Credit will introduce Real Time include support for the costs of housing, Universal Credit will be introduced Other adults living in the same household Information (RTI) to help employers children and childcare, as well as support gradually from April 2013. This means who are claiming Universal Credit will be manage their payroll and help their staff for disabled people and carers. that you may continue to get your paid separately. Monthly payments match get the right benefit payments. When existing benefits for a while, if your the way most salaries are paid. This will you are in work and your hours change, Between April 2013 and the end of circumstances stay the same. If there are help you to move into work, as you will be your employer will report it on RTI and 2017, Universal Credit will replace: no changes in your circumstances you used to managing a monthly budget. A your Universal Credit payment will be • Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance will not be any worse off when you range of support services will be available adjusted accordingly. This gives your • Income-related Employment and move onto Universal Credit. if you need help with budgeting and employer and you more opportunity to Support Allowance A TWO WAY RESPONSIBILITY managing your money. Where necessary it work flexibly, and removes the risk of • Income Support Universal Credit will establish a new two will be possible to use alternative your benefits being stopped just because arrangements, such as fortnightly you work a few more hours. Many • Working Tax Credit way relationship between you and the Government. In return for receiving payments, for a period of time. employers have already started to use the • Child Tax Credit Universal Credit, you must accept and BETTER OFF IN WORK RTI system to report their staff’s earnings • Housing Benefit to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs fulfil a Claimant Commitment that sets Unlike the current system, your benefits (HMRC). More employers will start to use MAKING WORK PAY out your responsibilities and the won’t be suddenly taken away just it from April 2013, and by September Universal Credit aims to ensure you will consequences of not meeting them. The because you have started work. 2013 most employers will be using the be better off in work and will make it Claimant Commitment will take account Universal Credit will only be steadily new system. easier for you to start a new job or work of your personal circumstances, your withdrawn as your earnings increase more hours. As your take home pay current situation and potential for future and you move toward financial GETTING READY FOR UNIVERSAL CREDIT increases Universal Credit will reduce earnings. If you are unemployed but able independence. You will be better off for Universal Credit will be introduced in gradually so you won’t lose all your to work you will be expected to make every additional hour you work, phases from April 2013. When it will benefits at once. There are no fixed looking for a job your full time focus. If whether in a full or part-time job. By affect you will depend on where you live hours thresholds, such as the 16 hours a you are not able to work you will combining in work and out of work and any benefits you currently claim. week rule. Even working just a few hours continue to receive financial protection. benefits Universal Credit will remove Getting online and sorting out the best a week will make a difference, as you If you are already working to your full the financial risks of taking up a job. To way to manage your money will help you move towards financial independence. potential you will still have a Claimant make searching for work easier we have get the most from the new service. St. Peters Neighbourhood Policing Team NBO 04155 MARK AKERS PCSO 66032 ROB KELLY NBO 1482 DAVE FRITH PCSO HELEN BROCKETT PCSO 65446 JOHN CORR Pioneer News Spring 2013 3 HOUSING MANAGEMENT Council Tax Frequently Asked Questions I did not previously pay A new bill with your revised instalments Please remember to quote your Council BENEFIT QUESTIONS Council Tax and I thought will be issued once this amendment has Tax reference number when paying been made. by this method to help identify your that my bill would only be payment. Why have I got a bill to pay, for 20% but it is more. Why? How can I pay my bill? when I have always been on Payments can be made monthly or If the property is in a higher band than RECOVERY QUESTIONS full benefit? band B you also need to pay the full weekly. Telephone payments can be With effect from 1st April 2013 Council amount between a band B and your made using a debit/credit card using our Tax Benefit has been abolished by the own property band. 24-hour payment line.
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