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DWP-Wuckfits !
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I got a letter this morning, from the DWP, explaining the way my benefits are worked out. Two things caught my attention, 1. I'll be getting less than i do at the moment, about £40/week and 2. It was a different office, about 15 miles away (my current DWP office is about half a mile away).
It's taken me 2 fucking hours of phone calls to find out that my old office is closing, and the new office i'll be dealing with, doesn't deal with income support (another office will), so that's why it wasn't included in the letter i got today.
FFS why don't they say this in the letter ? That office (my original one) must have 1000's of people claiming benefits. Are they going to be sending these letters out to all of them and having to deal with 1000's of people phoning up to find out what's going on with their benefits ? Obviously they are, which is why i had to spend 2 hours on the friggin phone this morning !
It's taken me 2 fucking hours of phone calls to find out that my old office is closing, and the new office i'll be dealing with, doesn't deal with income support (another office will), so that's why it wasn't included in the letter i got today.
FFS why don't they say this in the letter ? That office (my original one) must have 1000's of people claiming benefits. Are they going to be sending these letters out to all of them and having to deal with 1000's of people phoning up to find out what's going on with their benefits ? Obviously they are, which is why i had to spend 2 hours on the friggin phone this morning !
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Hope you get it sorted.
How come your income support is going down rubber? Surely that's not right, it used to go up by 24p every quarter or so when I was on it...
They are all (some)a bunch of wankers at times.
Just laugh, and then shout on Monday babe. They're all useless, anything to do with your entitlements and money and braincells seem to go out the window.
Thing is with my family, they tend to over pay us things, even when we explain to them we're not entitled to it - and then demand it back in a lumpsum so many months later. This is where we politely tell them to get stuffed, and we pay them back monthly :rolleyes:
Yeah i know. Think i'll have one of super duper baked potatoes for dinner, and a crate of wine !
I had a look round the Disabillity Alliance website (quite good actually) and it does say that one of the criteria for getting severe disabillity premium is that you live on your own, but there are exceptions (which, unfortunately it doesn't state). So i'm going to appeal with the help of THT, and see what happens. Still didin't get paid my other money today, assholes.
They should be able to claim carers allowance shouldn't they?
What a pain you had to go through all that though. Glad you found someone helpful to sort you out. I'm waiting for a decision on my sons DLA re-application and I just hope we don't have to go through appeals