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    • That explains it then. MET's fantasy is that it's a pay car park.  You're only let off paying if you are a Starbucks customer which you can't be when Starbucks is closed.  'Cos otherwise lots of people would abuse the car park facilities on the far edge of the Stansted Airport area in the middle of nowhere to ... admire the bushes?  Look at the cloudy sky? The important thing is that we have around 140 cases for this site, and MET have only tried court seven times.  Even then, they had no intention of getting as far as a hearing, they were attempting to intimidate the motorists into paying, when the Caggers defended the cases MET discontinued.
    • She's an only child and he as a brother and sister. He has no will and we have done a check on this to find out if he had left one and nothing has come up. He has savings of around 28k His sister and brother are well off so 28k is nothing to them and aren't interested in his money. This just leaves my wife/his daughter. Would this still need to go to probate there is no estate e.g house or business to sell and the amount left in his bank is just small? When his wife died they just closed her bank account and moved her money across to his account and we just assumed that once my wife has handed in the death certificate and shown evidence of who she is the same would apply to her? We don't know yet the council have only just written to us today with a guide of what to do next.  
    • Did your FiL leave a Will and if so who is the Executor? Strictly speaking banks could refuse to take instructions until Probate is granted but In practice I would expect the bank to take instructions to cancel the DD if the Executor presents the death certificate and a certified copy of the Will
    • Hi   Sorry I probably wasn't clear enough. He had lived in the flat until December 2022 with Dementia by this time it was unsafe for him to have capacity to live on his own and he had to move into a nursing home. We had left it too late to apply for power of attorney so approached a solicitor in March last year for Deputyship. We were still in the process of dealing with it by May 2024. He passed away a few weeks ago and the solicitor was contacted to halt the application and we will just pay the fees of what work he has done up until now. My wife was the named person on her dads bank account but we didn't have the ability to alter any direct debits hence the reasons for applying for Deputyship as we were having problems trying to stop some payments coming out of his account Eon being another difficult company. We kept his flat on from December 2022 - August 2023. it was at this point I contacted Sancutary housing to inform them he was no longer living in the flat, it had been cleared out and was ready for a new tenant and that he had Dementia and had moved into a nursing home December 2022 and explained the reasons why we kept it on. As the named person to speak on his behalf I asked them what proof they needed in order to give notice on the flat e.g proof of dementia and proof that he was living in a nursing home and anything else they wanted. The lady in the upstairs flat and some of the other residence in the street had asked about him and we had told them he had moved into a nursing home. The lady in the upstairs flat wanted his flat for medical reasons so asked us once we had given notice could be let her know and she'll ask them if she can have it. We explained the difficulties and it was left at that but I did tell her I would let her know once notice was given. I contacted the company by email a number of times and also telephone conversations and nobody followed it up and it wasn't till the end of February this year that the housing manager for the area wrote to our home address to ask about him that he had been to the flat a couple of times and nobody answered and he had asked some of the residence in the street and they hadn't seen him for sometime. There was an email address on the letter so I contacted him and copied in the last 2 emails I sent Sanctuary regarding me wanting to give notice on the flat for at least 9 months explaining that it went ignored as well as telephone calls. I also stated I wanted to have his rent payments returned from the date I wanted to give notice which was from August 2023 as the bank wouldn't let us stop the DD without POT or deputyship explaining we were in the process of Deputyship. He gave some excuse about not having POT to cancel on his behalf and spoke to someone in HR and said he would contact the nursing home to confirm he was there with Dementia and if it all checks out we can give notice on the flat which came to an end on the 22 March 2024. There was not mention of back payments for the rent already paid or the fact I had asked to give notice in August 2023. Despite someone living in the flat from 1st April they continue to take DD payments for the flat and have taken another 2 payments of £501. another concerning thing despite Eon not allowing us to cancel the DD to his account the lady upstairs informed Eon that she was moving into the flat February 2024 and Eon refunding the account to his bank and said in an email sorry you are leaving us and canceled his account. Something they wouldn't let us do but a stranger. She also changed her bank account to his address despite the fact notice hadn't been given on the flat yet. So we need to find out how much information Sanctuary actually had for her to tell her power company she was moving into the flat in February despite the housing manager only just getting in contact to find out where he was. So a complaint is going into Eon and Sanctuary and we are going to take advice and ask the bank to charge back the rent. My wife hasn't taken the death certificate to the bank yet to inform them of his passing.  
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Churchwood have made me want to swear today,who are they and how have they got hold of my home phone number which is ex directory and registered with the TPS and also texting my mobile...Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr:-x

 

 

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I must admit I did swear when I had to work longer on a job than I wanted to today,,, but never mind,, I had a good evening in front of tele watching footie and will join the lads down the local tomorrow. Oh mustnt forget to go and see me old mum as its Sunday and she does a lovely roast!

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OH pestering me to take out more life insurance. This was after we'd discussed what to watch on TV tonight, when I realised that the only things we actually watch together are those shows which focus on spouses that kill eachother! Anyone else see a pattern here..........?

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Well I wanted to swear yesterday really but have only been able to post it now. There was an underground electrical fire at about 5pm yesterday, and 90% of the area had no electricity until during the night. Very awkward when you have to feed your kids and get their clothes ready for school. That's the second time that has happened in as many years.

 

I hope all them Sirloin steaks are ok in the freezer.:oops:

 

 

If all else fails, kick them where it hurts and SOD'EM;)

 

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Sky made me want to swear,taking channels from us without telling us and now the router is playing up so guess they will cut my internet off next :-x

R.I.P my beautiful grey ghost, gone but never forgotten, taken so suddenly, 04/07/2004 ~ ~ 02/03/2017

Gone but never forgotten,Little Miss Sunshine, Alisha Marie. 15/12/2005 ~ ~ 13/02/2006

Our  beloved Dalmatian Jazz,  gone to join Wal at Rainbow Bridge, hope you are now pain free .  20/9/2005 ~ ~ 24/3/2019

 

 

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I'm surprised they get underground fires Sod'em with all the water that leaks from our water supply pipes and now they declare hose pipe bans...............what the hell happens now when i want to fill up my douhnut pool in a few months time grrrrrrrrrrrrr

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I went for 2 job interviews yesterday. I got offered them both. So I let the one know that I wouldnt be taking up their offer. Then the other one tells me that the vacancy has now been put on hold.........
OMG!!! So sorry to read that *hugs*
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The horrible, horrible, useless, inadequate dementia care in the area I live in. Watching useless Doctors being compensated for by brilliant Nurses. Very nearly having the lift I got from the brilliant Nurses (and if Doctors get a capital letter, I'll be damned if the Nurses don't BTW) ruined by a health care assistant who is quite clearly in the wrong profession.

 

It's just as well I've got a sense of humour, let's put it that way.

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The horrible, horrible, useless, inadequate dementia care in the area I live in. Watching useless Doctors being compensated for by brilliant Nurses. Very nearly having the lift I got from the brilliant Nurses (and if Doctors get a capital letter, I'll be damned if the Nurses don't BTW) ruined by a health care assistant who is quite clearly in the wrong profession.

 

It's just as well I've got a sense of humour, let's put it that way.

 

Please don't take this the wrong way; it's not meant to be... Myself; am looking at a mid case scenario that I'm facing a nursing home! I'm 43!!! Unfortunately, when I became severely physically ill I didn't tick all the right boxes. No worries thought I... Not so said they (social services). Two years down the line I'm still 'fighting' for everything. My home, care, benefits. I paid my taxes, NI, everything... Naively thinking I'd done the right thing. Where am I now? Facing an almost worse than death sentence because I suffered an hypoxic brain injury almost two years ago. I have no idea how long I have to be 'compus mentus'. A week, a year, a decade?

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If you want something doing properly, you are best doing it yourself.

 

 

 

At least that's what I tell Mrs SOD'EM when she wants sex.:jaw:

 

 

If all else fails, kick them where it hurts and SOD'EM;)

 

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my youngest sons college phoned my home number four times on wednesday and they also called his mobile FIVE bliddy times and then denied it.....the willys....where did I put the size 12 hobnailed boot grrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Please don't take this the wrong way; it's not meant to be... Myself; am looking at a mid case scenario that I'm facing a nursing home! I'm 43!!! Unfortunately, when I became severely physically ill I didn't tick all the right boxes. No worries thought I... Not so said they (social services). Two years down the line I'm still 'fighting' for everything. My home, care, benefits. I paid my taxes, NI, everything... Naively thinking I'd done the right thing. Where am I now? Facing an almost worse than death sentence because I suffered an hypoxic brain injury almost two years ago. I have no idea how long I have to be 'compus mentus'. A week, a year, a decade?

 

WARNING...massive rant not directed at anyone in particular ahead. Feel free to skim over and move on.

 

BB, not taken the wrong way at all - in fact, I fully symapthise. Mum and Dad are the same - never been unemployed, worked their backsides off, only had two kids, bought their house - did absolutely everything that society asks of people. Now they're here at 67 and 70 respectively, and where has it got them? My poor Dad is a walking misdiagnosis, they seem to think that because my elder sister is a Nurse and I used to work in a dementia centre my Mum shouldn't need any support. Lovely idea, but not when we both work full time - how the hell are we supposed to help? My Mum has been ripped off to the eyeballs, firstly by CrapFest then by some dodgy debt management company. Where's all that support they were promised, from the cradle to the grave? I'll tell you where - it's beating a hasty retreat over the horizon. In the meantime, my Mum (who is the size of a house sparrow) has been left with my 12 stone Dad, a commode and a bed in the dining room. If he fell, he'd take her with him. Even the paramedics who brought him home said he shouldn't be there - they didn't actually DO anything about it, but they did mention he shouldn't have been discharged. Thanks for that, lads. He fell again 15 minutes after they dumped him on the doorstep, and ended up being readmitted.

 

The only reason...ONLY reason...things are starting to move now is because my Sister (God bless her) has started chucking her professional weight around, which makes her feel horrible. How people with no knowledge of "The System" cope is utterly beyond me. If the mark of a society is how we treat our elders, we're a bloody disgrace.

 

OK, rant over. Tomorrow's another day and another opportunity to plant my boot up someone's backside if this keeps happening.

 

BB, again, you have my full sympathy. I know how hard it is fighting for someone else, never mind having to do it for yourself. It's all wrong, it really is. Sending you lots of good thoughts in the atmosphere - it's not much, but it's about the best I've got at the minute. :-)

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"Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me". Martin Niemöller

 

"A vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a half-brick in the path of the bicycle of history". - Terry Pratchett

 

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LG my mum and dad are passed over now BUT look at what we have now and look at what my mum and dad worked and strived for in WW11.....mum had 3 kids at home and had to leave her kids with her mum and go to a foundry and drive an over head crane 'not bad for a little lady who was a smidge over 5 feet tall and poor old dad had lost his leg once evcuated from Dunkirk due to his injuries....they did their bit and did their best to raise 9 kinds 'i'm their youngest' they and my brothers and sisters 'bar one lazy brother have all paid into the system to make our country a better one for new generations and look who's skimming and [causing problems]......ex eastern block scumbags and devious politicians................we are being driven into dirt and filth by these baskits so as for me the next time I vote I hope theres a ukip councilor on my vote card or i'll have to spoil it like last time grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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My poor Dad is a walking misdiagnosis,

 

I am in the same situation, unfortunately. :( Your dad has my sympathy. With me, they also hid important stuff from my parents, which led to me having a head injury as an 11 year old and they also blamed every problem on a disability I have. We found in September that it's possible that my problems are sod all to do with this and are in fact, something more sinister.

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The copious amounts of chocolate truffles my Husband bought me made me swear today - because I ate them all! :jaw:

Life is like an echo, it all returns......The good, the bad, the false, the true......So if you give life the best you have, the best will come back to you.

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TIMELINE!!!!!!

 

I didn't ask for it and I don't want it. :x

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