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  1. Don't the people who pay you have an answer? What about CAB?
  2. I was working 70 hour weeks to support not only my own family, but the many who were and still are taking the mickey out of the british tax payer by sitting on their lazy backsides.
  3. I always thought that benefit was the absolute minimum that one needed to live on, so how can people pay fines out of it? Also, why aren't tax payers complaining to the government. Poor people on the dole should be given all the home comforts and extra spending money they need so they can live a carefree relaxing life.
  4. Do the government not understand that we have paid national insurance contributions to cover unemployment and sickness? I thought that's what the benefit system was based on.... It's like an insurance company taking your money and then saying "you can't claim though" Also agree with the point made about working for benefit. Why not just create jobs if those jobs are required?
  5. Just got your P60? Does the figure for tax purposes look correct? Need to take the advice on the P60 and contact the benefits office in order to get the information required to write to the IR to query it? Try it. Each dept will not and say they cannot give the required information for total benefit paid in tax year so it is necessary to deal with each separate dept to obtain figures with written confirmation of actual figures for any particular tax year in order to arrive at a sum figure. I feel sorry for those who haven't got internet capability to access information or who are not mentally up to the task. Mr Brown, your DWP is nothing short of a complete and utter shambles; you should be ashamed of yourself. But let's look at a different scenario. You have made a successful claim for compensation. Now the depts, unbelievably, can contact each other and want their money back. Now they're really on the ball and hound you constantly. So it seems to be a case of: Money off the claimant = work together and wear them down. Money going to the claimant = put your feet up, split up the depts, send out written info, but just enough. We need a labour government, but there hasn't been one around for years.
  6. I'll put it another way. That was very poor grammar and you're right to pick up on it. This is now a case of, it's the law, but then it suddenly changes to we can do as you request if you ask for it in writing. But then, it's actually done over the phone without writing in. I wish they'd make their minds up about what and what is not the current legislation regarding successful IB claims and interim ESA claims running side by side.
  7. I'm going to request that the English Oxford Dictionary change the meaning of politician to: Person appointed by the people of a country who is expert in not answering direct questions, but has a Phd in fudge and fluff.
  8. You have to make sure that you send any material in to the correct dept as they will not talk to each other regarding your claims unless it suits them to. They spout rules and laws then contradict themselves when you make it a bit tough for them. IE: We will not close your claim and revert things back to the status quo unless you give it to us in writing - next day, done over the phone. We cannot deal with this claim,it's the other dept you need -whisper whisper whisper. Ok Ill have a word with them. This is now the law changes to we can do as you request. The system is in a shambles.
  9. GPs charge for supplying copies of medical records. The charge differs from area to area. The charge is down to the claimant and cannot be recovered, even after a successful appeal. CAB advises it may be beneficial to have copy of medical records from the beginning of your claim to the present when applying for and taking part in an appeal.
  10. Agree here. Depts will not step on each other's toes, which leaves claimants having to deal with totally separate claims and only receiving info for any particular claim from that dept. There is taped evidence of staff fed up to the back teeth with a crazy system in place and one which some bright spark got paid a substantial salary for inventing.
  11. IB still exists. They are, for those who have won IB appeals, automatically running ESA and IB claims together unless you write to them and request that your ESA claim be closed and your IB claim reinstated to what it was before it was wrongly taken away. In having both claims running you get the difference top up to your higher rate ie what you were on before the appeal but you have to send in MED 3 certs. If you close the ESA down and just have IB then you no longer need to supply MED 3 certs. IB is being phased out gradually with ESA taking over. If you've won an IB appeal then any outstanding ESA appeals after you made the IB appeal are quoshed automatically, or should be.
  12. Not negative at all, rather, some people think because they speak to someone nice on the phone or behind a desk that they're going to get some favours or a leg up etc. It's a fact that these days people are doing their jobs to the letter of the law for fear of litigation should they screw up in any way. We live in an age of I'm-all-right-Jack and you need to be aware that when the **** hits the fan you're mostly on your own. Advice I would give to anyone is this: Learn as much as you can about the system you're trying to work with because it's a labyrinth and easy to fall into a pit unless you know where they are.
  13. Never assume that the DWP are going to do you any favours or fail to miss the slightest hiccup you make, beit intentional or otherwise.
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