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    • That is really good is that a mistake last off "driver doesn't have a licence" I assume that should be keeper? The Court requested me to send the Court and applicant proof of my sons disability from their GP this clearly shows he has Severe Mental Impairement, he is also illiterate.  I naively assumed once the applicant received this that they would drop the claim.  It offends me that Bank has asked the Judge to throw the case out at the preliminary hearing and to make us pay up.
    • Hi, we are looking to get some opinions on weather or not to bother fighting this PCN. This comes from a very big retail park parking where there are restaurants, hotel, amongst other businesses. The parking is free but I suppose there must be a time limit on it that I am not aware of. We were in the area for around 4 hours. Makes us wonder how they deal with people staying in the hotel as the ANPR is on what appears to be a publicly maintained street (where london buses run) which leads to the different parking areas including the hotel.  1 Date of the infringement 26/05/2024 2 Date on the NTK  31/05/2024 3 Date received 07/06/2024 4 Does the NTK mention schedule 4 of The Protections of Freedoms Act 2012? [Y/N?]  YES 5 Is there any photographic evidence of the event? Entry and exit photos however, based on the photographs we are almost sure the photos are taken on public street. This is the location I believe photos are taken from.  https://maps.app.goo.gl/eii8zSmFFhVZDRpbA 6 Have you appealed? [Y/N?] post up your appeal] No Have you had a response? [Y/N?] post it up N/A 7 Who is the parking company? UKPA. UK Parking Administration LTD 8. Where exactly [carpark name and town] The Colonnades, Croydon, CR0 4RQ For either option, does it say which appeals body they operate under. British Parking Association (BPA) Thanks in advance for any assistance.  UKPA PCN The Collonades-redacted.pdf
    • Thank you for posting their WS. If we start with the actual WS made by the director one would have doubts that they had even read PoFA let alone understood it. Point 10  we only have the word of the director that the contract has been extended. I should have had the corroboration of the Client. Point 12 The Judge HHJ Simkiss was not the usual Judge on motoring cases and his decisions on the necessity of contracts did not align with PoFA. In Schedule 4 [1[ it is quite clearly spelt out- “relevant contract” means a contract (including a contract arising only when the vehicle was parked on the relevant land) between the driver and a person who is—(a)the owner or occupier of the land; or (b authorised, under or  by virtue of arrangements made by the owner or occupier of the land, to enter into a contract with the driver requiring the payment of parking charges in respect of the parking of the vehicle on the land; And the laughable piece of paper from the land owners cannot be described as a contract. I respectfully ask that the case be dismissed as there is no contract. WE do not even know what the parking regulations are which is really basic. It is respectfully asked that without a valid contract the case cannot continue. One would imagine that were there a valid contract it would have been produced.  So the contract that Bank has with the motorist must come from the landowner. Bank on their own cannot impose their own contract. How could a director of a parking company sign a Statement of Truth which included Point 11. Point 14. There is no offer of a contract at the entrance to the car park. Doubtful if it is even an offer to treat. The entrance sign sign does not comply with the IPC Code of Conduct nor is there any indication that ANPR cameras are in force. A major fault and breach of GDPR. Despite the lack of being offered a contract at the entrance [and how anyone could see what was offered by way of a contract in the car park is impossible owing to none of the signs in the WS being at all legible] payment was made for the car to park. A young person in the car made the payment. But before they did that, they helped an elderly lady to make her payment as she was having difficulty. After arranging payment for the lady the young lad made his payment right behind. Unfortunately he entered the old lady's number again rather than paying .for the car he was in. This can be confirmed by looking at the Allow List print out on page 25. The defendant's car arrived at 12.49 and at 12.51 and 12.52  there are two payments for the same vrm. This was also remarked on by the IPC adjudicator when the PCN was appealed.  So it is quite disgraceful that Bank have continued to pursue the Defendant knowing that it was a question of  entering the wrong vrm.  Point 21 The Defendant is not obliged to name the driver, they are only invited to do so under S9[2][e]. Also it is unreasonable to assume that the keeper is the driver. The Courts do not do that for good reason. The keeper in this case does not have a driving licence. Point 22. The Defendant DID make a further appeal which though it was also turned down their reply was very telling and should have led to the charge being dropped were the company not greedy and willing to pursue the Defendant regardless of the evidence they had in their own hands. Point 23 [111] it's a bit rich asking the Defendant to act justly and at proportionate cost while acting completely unjustly themselves and then adding an unlawful 70% on to the invoice. This  is despite PoFA S4[5] (5)The maximum sum which may be recovered from the keeper by virtue of the right conferred by this paragraph is the amount specified in the notice to keeper under paragraph 9[2][d].  Point 23 [1v] the Director can deny all he wants but the PCN does not comply with PoFA. S9 [2][a] states  (2)The notice must— (a)specify the vehicle, the relevant land on which it was parked and the period of parking to which the notice relates; The PCN only quotes the ANPR arrival and departure times which obviously includes a fair amount of driving between the two cameras. Plus the driver and passengers are a mixture of disabled and aged persons who require more time than just a young fit single driver to exit the car and later re enter. So the ANPR times cannot be the same as the required parking period as stipulated in the ACT. Moreover in S9[2][f]  (ii)the creditor does not know both the name of the driver and a current address for service for the driver, the creditor will (if all the applicable conditions under this Schedule are met) have the right to recover from the keeper so much of that amount as remains unpaid; You will note that in the PCN the words in parentheses are not included but at the start of Section 9 the word "must" is included. As there are two faults in the PCN it follows that Bank cannot pursue the keeper . And as the driver does not have a driving licence their case must fail on that alone. And that is not even taking into consideration that the payment was made. Point 23 [v] your company is wrong a payment was made. very difficult to prove a cash payment two weeks later when the PCN arrives. However the evidence was in your print out for anyone to see had they actually done due diligence prior to writing to the DVLA. Indeed as the Defendant had paid there was no reasonable cause to have applied for the keeper details. Point 24 the Defendant did not breach the contract. The PCN claimed the Defendant failed to make a payment when they had made a payment.   I haven't finished yet but that is something to start with
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    • honestly you sound like you work the claimant yes affixed dont appeal to anyone no cant be “argued either way”  
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My wife and I are both retired.My wife is disabled and receives DLA.I receive Carers Allowance.

My wife also receives pension credit(savings) and has two small private pensions.I also receive a private pension(income drawdown).

In December 2012 I had a 5 year pension review and my pension was slashed from £560 per month

to £250 per month due to new GAD rates being imposed.

We advised DWP of a change in circumstances on 20th dec 2012 and despite phoning them every 2 weeks we have received nothing.

Our meagre savings have now been used up and we are now worrying about paying our bills particularly the mortgage which is £515 per month.

I have raised a complaint with the DWP and now don't know what else to do.

Can anyone advise.

Thank you.

 

There must be something wrong with the Pension Service. My first claim was put in in Sept 09 first payment Jan 10, suspended in Aug 10 and terminated in March 11. Why? all because they had the wrong figures from one of my pension providers.

 

I then got a job and gave up with them - didn't need them anymore.

 

Made a claim 12th March 2013 and they requested evidence on the 9th April 2013. Wow, must be a record!! Anyhow They are the ones that are now pushing to get the award out (£118 a week due + Housing costs of £69 a week). So the tables have been turned. I'm making life very difficult for them for a change - evidence one bit every couple of weeks, 'misunderstanding what they want'. ignoring their 'urgent' (so they say to my wife) telephone calls, cancelling at home visits for 'medical reasons'.

 

I've gone from 'Customer Services' looking at the claim to a 'Specialist Decision Maker' whatever that is when it is at home.

 

They have now put me on a 30 day time limit to co-operate - runs out 9th May 2013.

Telephoned today and told the guy who answered the phone that that isn't enough time to get it all together - 'don't worry' he said 'I'll get them to extend the deadline - I do this all day long for people'. Told him that if they do shut me down, a new claim will be in the post within 24 hours with a request to backdate to 1st March!!

 

Hoping to string them along for as long as it took them to sort out my first claim -3 months!!

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Petes so you are not in need of money?

You might not get any backdating because you failed to comply with requests for information, and guess what? It would serve you right!

 

DWP/Pensions staff are working to tight timescales on limited resources. We're not all idiots nor do we deliberately delay putting a claim into payment. We rely on information from other agencies and sometimes it can take a while. I am sorry your previous claim was delayed and suspended but your actions aren't solving or gaining anything

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Petes so you are not in need of money?

You might not get any backdating because you failed to comply with requests for information, and guess what? It would serve you right!

 

DWP/Pensions staff are working to tight timescales on limited resources. We're not all idiots nor do we deliberately delay putting a claim into payment. We rely on information from other agencies and sometimes it can take a while. I am sorry your previous claim was delayed and suspended but your actions aren't solving or gaining anything

 

Of course the money would come in handy. But I put into place a contingency fund that will see me through the next few months. To be honest whilst the claim was submitted in early March, I am fully aware that my actual entitlement cannot start until the 28th March due to other income coming in up to that date that takes me over the 'Appropriate Amount'. All that the Pension Service can do is treat my claim as 'defective' and close it. It would have no bearing on a new claim with a request that it be backdated up to 3 months.

 

Do I particularly care what the DWP/Pension Service have to cope with? No, not at all, that is their problem. The more of their time that I waste the better I will feel and in a way feel compensated for the shambles that they created back in 2010 with that claim.

 

No I agree, the Pension Service for a change are actually 'pushing' to get my claim into payment. Totally different than it was back in 2009/2010 when I used to hear nothing for months on end.

 

No as I have already said, nothing can change the stress that I suffered at the hands of the Pension Service in the past. Do I just cow down to them now because THEY want to deal with it faster than they previously did? However, it does give me some level of satisfaction that I am causing THEM for a change, disruption and annoyance and no doubt playing havoc with their targets.

 

As I have said previously, I intend to string them along for as far as I can take them - money isn't everything, the feeling of taking control over the way they deal with my current claim gives a far better feeling of satisfaction.

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I think you are being very selfish. You are forcing the DWP to spend time chasing you when that time could be spent helping more co-operative claimants who are actually in need of the money they are claiming. I only wish I could show this thread to whoever is dealing with your claim

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I totally agree Ros, this kind of thing makes me sick, genuine people waiting longer so that someone so far up their own rear end makes their own amusement.

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I think you are being very selfish. You are forcing the DWP to spend time chasing you when that time could be spent helping more co-operative claimants who are actually in need of the money they are claiming. I only wish I could show this thread to whoever is dealing with your claim

 

Selfish??? Where were you when I made my first claim in Sept 09, the first payment was made on the 20th January 2010, without housing costs?

 

I made a total of 42 telephone/letter contacts with the Pension Service between September 2009 and August 2010. I received just one written reply and no return telephone call!

 

When they by the time they closed the claim down in February 2011, I had never received a penny in housing costs and had no GPC from August 2010.

 

And you call me selfish!

 

Now that the tables have turned, and they have decided to get their act together with this new claim, I am supposed to jump when they say 'Jump'.

 

Be advised there is no need to contact the Pension Service - they know full well what I am about - I wrote and told them that I will use every excuse and regulation to make their life as difficult as I can. Maybe that is why I have a 'Specialist Decision Maker' dealing with this claim?

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I totally agree Ros, this kind of thing makes me sick, genuine people waiting longer so that someone so far up their own rear end makes their own amusement.

 

All I am doing is exactly what they did to me in 2010.

What would you do if say the DWP shafted you for well in excess of £10,500 of benefit that you were entitled to?

Take it on the chin and walk away? Or would you fight back in the only way possible?

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I'm confused, petes stated a few days ago that he gets £650 a week in benefits and retired at 60.

 

That is what I should be getting if and when the Pension Service make the award of approx. £180 a week including housing costs of £69 to which I am entitled to.

 

Up to now they owe that figure as from the 29th March 2013, £720 and counting. By the time I have finished, the debt should be in the region of £1800 and they would have taken from the 13th March 2013 until mid June to sort it out. So far they have had three letters to which I haven't received a reply - so that now warrants a formal complaint.

The MI12 is being held back by me from the bank to see how long they take to get in touch with me to say that the bank hasn't returned it. That should keep them busy for the next 12 months. Obviously that will result in another formal complaint - intolerable delay in awarding housing costs!

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That is what I should be getting if and when the Pension Service make the award of approx. £180 a week including housing costs of £69 to which I am entitled to.

 

Up to now they owe that figure as from the 29th March 2013, £720 and counting.

 

No, you stated you were getting £650 a week - where does the rest come from? If you are getting £400 a week in other benefits, you hardly need a contingency fund.

 

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Just to remind you, this is what you posted:

 

What is the problem with people asking and for others being honest and saying

that you are?

 

The normal questions I get are "how do you manage now that

you don't work - I'll bet it is a shock to the system?"

 

I tell them

straight that I am on benefits which taking everything into account gives me a

similar income as I used to get when I was working.

 

Some ask, and I tell

them - "in total about £650 a week - why do you think I retired at 60!" That

soon shuts them up!!

 

Personally I don't care what others think or say or

even how they treat me. I've grown a thick skin in my employment which now

serves me well.

 

One thing that irritates people is when I comment that I

don't get out of bed before 9am anymore and plan my day to suit myself and my

wife.

 

I really would like to see the first guy to try to make any

comment that I consider is out of order.

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