Increasing and Maximising Income

Increasing & maximising income is important and can go hand in hand with debt & money advice:

Benefit, Tax and Pension Credits

Making sure you are in receipt of the correct benefits, tax and pension credits and other grants could make a significant difference to your overall situation. This could be of particular importance where a change of circumstance has taken place such as job loss, reduction in income, new child, retirement, health issues, relationship issues, housing etc

Forums on benefit, tax & pension credit issues

Tax Issues & Information

  • Understanding tax and how it affects you can also be important as it could make a difference to your overall income.

Forums on tax issues

  • Forums can be useful for asking questions and also seeing that other people are going through the same things as you. You will have to sign up to them to post new messages but can read them without.
  • Money Saving Expert

Increasing / Upping Your Income (General)

  • There may be other ways of increasing your income:
  • Take a part time second job
  • Rent out a room
  • Contributions from non-dependants living with you
  • Rent out your garage
  • Sell any unwanted household items (ie car boot sales, online auctions etc.)

Forums

  • Forums can be useful for asking questions and also seeing that other people are going through the same things as you. You will have to sign up to them to post new messages but can read them without.
  • Money Saving Expert
  • Legal Beagles


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