Occupational Pensions and Benifits

[philip52]

Every year I receive a letter from the Job center plus asking for any details with regard to my Occupational Pensions as some of my benefit entailment is means tested and every year as per the letter give them wriiten permission all the details to contact my pension provider which in this case is a Local Government Pension as at the time of the letter I have no knowledge of the annual increase but I do reply with written permission for them to contact my pension provider along with all the information they would need . Last year I received at least 5 letters asking for the same information and this year the same number of requests and I also follow the letter up with a phone to the office dealing with this matter, but I have been called for a interview with the compliance officer at my local Job center as I was unable to attend the appointment on that day given so I contact the compliance person and discovered that they still wanted details of my pension for this year, I explained that they had all the details and if they wanted to they also had the permission to contact my pension provider, to which I was told that it was my job to give them the details, and it was not their job to contact them so why put on all the their letters a space for my permission to contact the pension provider .Apart from P60 and the copy of my annual pay advice and my written permission for contact the pension department what else can I do ,as the increase in my pension this year is the grand sum of £2.00 per month and I wonder how much all this work has cost them or us let alone the stress it has caused me, I am being to think have no ideal what they are doing is there anybody whom I can complain to stop this what is becoming months every year of stress.

[scotgal68]

The compliance interview is standard in JSA claims, my son was iro JSA for 7 weeks and was called for a compliance interview. All I cam suggest is you attend the interview, send back the initial request and ignore the rest if they're just duplicates. Speak to your JCP manager and tell them about the stress it's causing you, wouldn't worry about the cost of the work involved, not coming out of your pocket, let them stress about that

[philip52]

Sorry to say this but I get taxed on my Pension so it is coming out of my pocket and they have all the information there is nothing else I can give them

[scotgal68]

so you're worried about how the tax on your OC is spent? Write to your MP, as well as the complaint to the JCP manager