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  1. It was a verbal contract and I have confirmation via email etc.. relating to me starting in the position etc... The onbly reason that I came about all of this is because I asked for a letter of intent or offer to confirm the position, thats when this all came out of the woodwork.
  2. @Ethel Street Thanks for helping. HMRC adjusted my Tax Code accordingly which wound up handy...
  3. Hi, After 16+ months of fighting for PIP, I finally went to court and won my case. From there, DWP did backdate my PIP award to the date which I applied but they haven't applied any of the "cost of living payments", "warm home discount" etc.... I do ralie that WHD might not come under them, but I've literally spent hours trying to speak to people about this and: 1) About the Cost of LIving payment, the Diability Line (as per the gov.uk website I should contact them for missing Cost of Living Payments), have no idea what to do. They've asked around, they've sent me back into the phone menu and told me to go to the "cost of living" section.. Which is literally a "message" which hangs up after it has spoken. I'm literally getting nowhere. 2) About the warm home discount: nobody seems to know where to go for this. I was with British gas, but they wont help me as they said that it's up to the govt. I've spoken to the DWP and they keep pointing me all over the show, on occasion getitng hung up on (or disconencteD).. I have no idea where go for this... Can anyone give me any pointers for the above? I'd really appreciate it. Cheers A
  4. Hi, I was just wondering if you guys n gals could help me. A year ago, I joined the company I'm at as a low level position. Within a month, I was offered a promotion to a better position, higher salary etc... I was performing this duty for the past 11 months, but recently, I was offered yet another promotion to a more senior position and more operational one, I was given the choice to not accept it if I didn't want it, but ofcourtse I chose it as it fitted my skillset perfectly. The MD even sent me messages over teams to ask if I was "happy with my new position", which ofcourse I was extatic about. The company found someone to fill my position, so it was all go, but had to wait a few weeks until they started. 2 weeks to go until the "go date" for the new position, I get told that it's no longer available due to "operational problems". This only arose as I insisted that I get a contract or at least a letter of intention along with the offer. I've now found out that the company can't afford the position, that they've lost alot of business (in the last 2 weeks) and that they are unable to break the new contract with "my replacement". The only offer on the table was to go back to my old rudimentary position, albeit at the same salary. So basically a totaly demotion and back to square 1 with 0 professional progression. I've only been with the company for a year so I was wondering: 1) Do I have to take the "lower" position? My feeling is that the oversight of hiring someone overzealously when the role wasn't vacated, isn't a me problem. its a company problem. 2) The old position required me to come into the office once a week, which has 2 caveats. 1) being medical as I can't make it in as circunstances have chanaged since I was in that position, 2) financials don't allow for travel to work every week. I met with the MD, Ops Director and my own Director to dispute this and stated that I'd happily filfil the role required to "assist the company temporarily to tide things over", but it appears that they aren't playing ball. I explained why I can't come in weekly, but they again, made it out to be a "me problem", which I explained clearly wasn't as 48 weeks / 52 working from home is a clear indicator that I'll be working from home. The 4 weeks were the intial 4 weeks when I joined... I don't quite know how to approach this as I have absolutely been scre**d here, but I still need an income whilst I look further. But until then I'm concerned that they'll insist that I come in "whether you like it or not" and if I can't mark me as "absent" etc... After the way this has all panned out, I wouldn't put anything past them as trust went from 200% to below zero in the space of one meeting. Any pointers would be handy. Thanks in advance,
  5. Is there nobody out there with some handy advice? I'm literally sitting here waiting for advice from ombudsmen, various bodies etc... whislt bills are racking up... Get this, £130 for being at home for all of 4 days this month lol...
  6. @Ethel StreetI had a look at that cheers As I'm in a 1 bed appt and my company setup is in my livingroom, what would the right way to work electric and that be? I already know that the computer and monitors chew 0.09£ an hour at the moment, but knowing HMRC they'll have some random sqare footage rule or something?
  7. HI, I moved into a new property early 2021. Upon moving in, I was greeted by a company called Ginger Energy who stated that the building has a Neat Network (basically one central boiler, which pushes hot water around to the properties BUT), the hot water doesn't go direct to the taps, it runs through a HIU (Heat Interface Unit). SO they charge us for whatever energy we take out of the network, fair enough. As the months went on I noticed my bills creeping up at an alarming rate (Despite the whole building - the network - running on gas). Upon approaching Ginger Energy, they stated that it's correct and that they were charging me: 0.2850 standing charge 0.2800 / kWh of heat usage I queried this as I didn't see any of the £400 the govt was supposed to help Heat Network users with. There is a grey area in the law which allows the heat network to "pass on a fair amount" of the EBRS which they get to the tenant, so we get 1p / unit (thats it). I have since come to find out that they infact are the ones benefiting from it as they are claiming EBRS whilst we're capped at a low rate. The building gets charged: 0.079p / kWh of gas £12 / day standing charge (for the building None of these savings are passed onto us at all. Last december, we noticed a big spike in our heating bills (the whole building), but oddly on one particularly cold day the central boiler stopped working for a good 18 hours. I took advantage of this and straight away turned on my boiler, opened my hot taps (which were obviously stone cold and heating just ran cold water around the radiators). I did this to see if they would bill us as I wasn't convinced that its being done correctly. Come my bill, I got charged £16... yes, 16 for that day.. As my boiler was left running and was literally taking 1 degree out of the network. They work this out as follows: Main flow = Hot water from the building is measured in m3 Main flow temperature MINUS the return temperature = what I've taken out of the network obviously Which seems fair. They stated that the meter takes a reading once every 15 minutes, so I asked for my enture years worth of readings, shoved them through Microsoft BI and came up with a chart that literally shows that the network under-supplies the heat units to keep them drawing heat. By this I mean that on the heat unit itself, it states CLEARLY that minimum flow temperature is 65C, but looking at the last years worth of readings, 50% of the money I've lost goes towards that inefficiency. This is happening purely because they're turning it down to minimize on has expense and maximize on income through sly trickery... Keeping the HIU's below an optimal temperature would cause them to constantly try and pump heat around, resulting in extra high bills. I personally keep my house at 17C, its really well insulated. Furthermore, I've noticed that even when my water and heating is NOT in use the units tick up... Ginger energy stated the following: Here is a pic to a screenshot of the excel spreadsheet: Untitled — Freeimage.host FREEIMAGE.HOST Image Untitled hosted in Freeimage.host There's no explanation on there at all other than a temperature change, but basic (Heat transfer through a medium of x heat capacity, in this case water) physics: kW = kg /s (of water) x (kJ ÷ kg ÷°C) x °C kW = kg / s x (4.186 ÷ °C) x °C Anyway works out nothing like what they're throwing at me. No where do I see a flow either. I've approached them about this, but nobody will entertain it. The building management really don't care and point me to Ginger ENergy, ginger energy state they "only handle billing" and that I need to get hold of the landlord (building owner), which happens to be a shell company based in the Barbados. The actual address of the owner (this shell company) is some cottage out behind a farm somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Can someone give me some advice? As this Ginger Energy is chasing the bills, but there is literally nobody to handle this. Cheers, Adrian
  8. Hi, Last year I started at a company, full time, okayish salary and was just making under the benefits cut off. Since the govt changed the thresholdd for NI. I did some looking around and I remembe seeing somewhere that if your company doesn't reimburse you for everything e.g. you pay for various artefacts out of your own pocket, that this can be taken off of your net income. The DWP don't agree with me, but I'm not 100% sure. Could I ask them to regard the money I spend on printer paper, toner, notepads, the second internet connection for work (secure for VPN etc...) as a direct work expense? The company doesn't have any offices, as all of us work from home, across the world, so there isn't an office to go in to at all. On that note, failing the DWP route, would I be entitled to anything from HMRC as my place of work is home, it's not a choice to go in or not, we just don't have a colelctive office. ANy pointers would be handy Cheers, Ade
  9. Thats what they sent me, a statement (a week ago) which shows whats outstanding, whats paid. I dont believe any of it as I'm sure as heck that they're paid off. No, my bank only has statements back to 2010
  10. I might have but that was so long ago. Because I was on JSA a number of times, all varying amounts until it all eventually stopped years ago, I was under the impression that they were paid. For at least the last 8 years I was on JSA and UC enough to pay them over 6 fold so had no reason to think they weren't paid off. Furthermore they said in 2017 that I didn't have the right to work here as a EU citizen but said that their records going back to my HRT in 2005 were no longer available. If so how come these so called debts are available and other paperwork isn't. It's all very cloak and dagger.
  11. HI All, it's taken near to a year for the DWP to get to send me a statement with dates on it. They've avoided all ways to send me this, but a complaint sent to them and ICE got them in gear These debts are old social fund loads dating back to 2009?! I've been on and off of benefits a few times between then and now and not once have they mentioned this and I never thought of it as they were all paid out of JSA. Inexplicably they began taking £80-90 off of me a month, and it's a year later... Can I challenge this as they are statute barred. I haven't heard about these debts in near to 12-13 years and they've had more than ample time to raise them with me. Obviously nobody has paperwork going back this far so where would I stand on this? Can I get back the money they took without asking despite me disputing it when they first wrote to me in 2021? Officially speaking they've avoided to do everything but address my dispute, until a over year later. On a comical note, they offered me £30 compensation for all of the agro I've endured. I think I've used about that in paper and ink alone, let alone the hours on the phone waiting, the finger pointing between departments and the rest. Rather petty really. Any advice? Cheerio Ade
  12. Ah cool. I thought I'd show some compassion first and applied for an Order One requesting 14 days extension to my deadline to give me time to unravel this mess, but in the same breath, my reasoning outlined all of the issues such as non adhesion to directions, non adhesion to bundles etc... I didnt want to come across as a heartless money-grabbing tenant but on the other hand I did want to show that I did notice her complete lack of respect for the system. Could go either way, but looking at her complete insanity in her "defence" which I since noticed had TWO statements of case, but they were called "explanation of eviddence" and in some random format, so it'll be interesting to see what the outcome is.
  13. Oh and forgot to mention that 3 of the directives which were issues by the tribuunal service were blatantly ignored by her and not addressed: 1) Stated that she had to provide evidence of benefits/rent received in relation to the property 2) Stated that she had to provide evidence of expenditure in relation to the property such as utility bills 3) Stated that she had to justify whether the RRO amount should be reduced None of these directions were addressed. The PDF bundle she sent the tribunal servuce was 163 pages and is literally indexed by the "email subjects". She literally printed off ALL comms between her and I over 2 years and basically stated "here is the evidence" without any references to particular parts of the evidence. Literally a "do it yourself" when it comes to understanding her evidence. Finally the english in her response is apauling and in multiple occasions she refers to people by the wrong names, he called me "she" (whereas I'm a he) on a number of occasions, spelling errors galore and the grammar is horrendous. Dates are incorrect, etc... None the less, everything she stated in her response has nothing to do with any of the items in my statement of case? does that mean I can literally just state that the repsondent hasn't denied any ofmy allegations nor has she addressed them.
  14. It wont let me edit the OP but here's the statement of case. all statements are backed up with evidence in teh bundle as either email messages, text messages, police reports, etc.... In short, as I wouldn't allow her in the property because she refused to adhere to covid safety measures, she went off on a harassment mission and started to contact my guarantor. She told my guarantor that she was going to sell the property. She got multiple agents to contact me (even dubious ones with iffy email addresses @live.com for example), the police warned her off but she ignored this and carried on. She even lied about the police and stated that they told her that I didnt have a case, which the police report from the Public Disclosure documents confirms. Literally shes backed into a corner and throwing totally ficticions allegations around with no evidence. Not only that, but her respones to my statement of case literally addressed none of my allegations in the statement of case. SO can I regard her answers as "out of scope" as they have nothing to do with the case I've brought before the tribunal. I dont care if the courts catch her out lying, infact I'd be pleased if she gets in trouble as he's been skating a thin line which literally buoycots actuallly getting into trouble.
  15. Hi, I'm currently engaged with a previous landlord as I applied for a RRO. I've already put my statement of case in, but when she responded to it with her "response" ad PDF bundle it literally: 1) Didnt address one issue in my statement of case. It literally moaned about all sorts of non related issues which were not listed in the statement of case I presented. 2) There's allegations in her response that i "made advances on her to make her my girlfriend", which quite frankly, there's more chance of elvis returning from the dead. Non of these so called advances have any evidence, there's no emails, texts, calls, voicemails... So I have no idea how to address this if at all. 3) There's allegations that my guarantor contacted her on a number of occasions, and I've confirmed that this isn't true. She literally mixed up me and my guarantor as well as the tenancy reference agency and blamed the guarantor. I have no idea how to address this. Despite most of the above being outside of scope of what I listed in my Statement of Case, and all of her points in her "explanation" being moot as they also dont address any of the points in my Statement of Case, how do I respond to that? Do I literaly list my statement of case items and so something like:: etc... Or do I activly need to respond to her points in her case? As much as I feel that would be the right thing to do, surely she needs to address my items listed in my statement of case. Otherwise we might as well pick and choose what we address lol Anyway any help woul dbe really appreciated. Cheers Ade
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