FOAK: Unemployment benefit

Blimey.. why only £89.00 The normal amount is £111.30 every two weeks.

 

I got one of those letters too. The nice people at the other end of the
phone line explained that the tax computer had blown a fuse, or
something, and they were having to ask for confirmation from everyone.

I gave them all the details of the company I was working for at the
time and they said: "No such company". I rang them up again, explained
that the Daily Mail Group did indeed exist, and the nice lady said that
they'd given the job of sorting out the ****-up to the most useless
department in the tax hierarchy... )

Anyway, it got sorted, and I was told I wouldn't have to pay my missing
NI all over again. It was something like 300 quid they wanted.

 

SP scribbled:

I've sent them two letters very clearly stating I've received the
interim payment, and a third asking if they'd received the first one,
so they've not got a leg to stand on if they try to claim it back.

 

Yep, bad form and all that. Knew it was wrong as soon as I hit send.
Fuggin' grammar police.

 

"Proof of delivery is not proof of receipt."

 

'> Guys, help the rest of us retain some respect for you both, and take

No problem'

Quite.

Someone needs to ejaculate. And not just into a tissue.

What about a UKRM whip-round ?

 

I didn't think you had either, as it happens.......

 

Unless it's a FPN.

 

Quite.

 

I couldn't cos I was on strike, but had to pay the backdated amount of
pension credits (or whatever they are called) for the full year, when
we went back to work.
Most unhelpfull people I have ever met, the social.

 

Hmm.. well. There has to be some benefits of being old(er).

 

You don't think they are actually there to help the likes of us, do you?

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
'A bit of Meuseyside Culture'

 

Unfortunately, as far as I am aware they are entitled to reclaim any
monies owing to them, even if you have informed them of their error.
Hence my Mum isn't spending the money she's been overpaid. Yet.

There was even a report in the paper recently about a woman who was
being hounded by the SS to repay the monies they had inadvertantly
overpaid to her (now deceased) father in error.

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
'A bit of Meuseyside Culture'

 

Well, I certainly agree with you on that one! Mind you, if they have
their way we will be working until we're 70, providing we don't pop our
clogs before then and bugger their calculations up by failing to fulfil
the quota they are looking for in order to pay the current pension
funds.

--
Lesley
CBR600FW
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18
Real burds don't take hormones, they rage naturally

 

The answer is, no matter how many hundreds of thousands of pounds you've
paid into the system, if you ain't skint, you'll get bugger all. That's
what I was told, anyway. Just stop paying that stamp.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

I'm one million percent certain, that there won't be any such thing as a
state pension by the time I reach pension age (if - FFS - 65!! If I'm
still alive then, I'm going to sue the tobacco and beer companies).

All that NI has been thrown away, in my opinion.

--

Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24

 

Champ says...

Don't get me started.

 

Not here in Paradise we're not. Our 'life expectancy' recently went over
80 for the first time. Men are somewhere around 77 ('can't be arsed
checking for the exact figure).

 

What gets me is us blokes are due to die at age 70, assuming we don't
ride motorcycles of course. Or smoke. Or drink. Or walk down the fucking
high street. Or breath.

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24