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Just had a letter from Liverpool Council stating that due to a change in your circumstances from 23.04.2009 in order to decide your correct entitlement from this date please provide ...........my latest private pension slip. BT don't issue payment slips anymore, it goes into the bank. I am not providing them with statements, as they lost some of mine some years ago, anyway The Halifax have also stopped issueing statements they prefer you to bank online so your account can be hacked into, and they won't accept copies. But what I want to know is this,...... they state that they have estimated the income used to calculate my claim as £999.99. yet last year, when I asked them to explain how they worked out the amount of earned income, I got a detailed account of what they did and it came to a figure of £294.67 per week ........this is what they used for 2008/2009 as earned income to work out my benefit,how can a figure jump to £999.99 does not say if this figure is monthly yearly or weekly.for TWO PENSIONERS,anyone shed some light on what they are up to,do they just think of a figure and add a couple of noughts on, or is it that they think that because we are pensioners we cannot add up and subtract,probably better at it than they are.Any info would be much appreciated as to were they get the figure of £999.99 for two pensioners .
They use £999.99 as a default income when income cannot be correctly established, the figures used as it would automatically take you over the income threshold for claiming.
You need to speak to them as to why they have not been able to establish your income - possibly as you have not provided pension statements ?
We have provided them with all our details but they just seem to churn out incorrect statements we have had four different statement with all different amounts on and just recieved another one today stating amount of earned "weekly" income used in deciding the claim is £1370.80 PER WEEK I mean what dimbo council worker would actually think that two pensioners who's earned income used previously jumped from £294 per week to this amount would even think of applying for council tax benefit,I mean last year all we got was a measly £5.00 benefit,regardles of default figures they don't even give you the time they state " a month " to reply,the annoying part of this is the fact that they are getting paid a salary to do this that is far more than our pensions,in fact more in tune with the figure they are quoting now of £1000 per week with all their perks. Then again the main qualification to be employed By Liverpool Council is that your brains are in the lower part of your anatomy.
Council Tax figures
have also stopped issueing statements they prefer you to bank online so your account can be hacked into, and they won't accept copies. But what I want to know is this,...... they state that they have estimated the income used to calculate my claim as £999.99. yet last year, when I asked them to explain how they worked out the amount of earned income, I got a detailed account of what they did and it came to a figure of £294.67 per week ........this is what they used for 2008/2009 as earned income to work out my benefit,how can a figure jump to £999.99 does not say if this figure is monthly yearly or weekly.for TWO PENSIONERS,anyone shed some light on what they are up to,do they just think of a figure and add a couple of noughts on, or is it that they think that because we are pensioners we cannot add up and subtract,probably better at it than they are.Any info would be much appreciated as to were they get the figure of £999.99 for two pensioners .
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