I am on a low income but satisfy all of the criteria to be entitled to this BINGO pay out system. I first applied to working tax credits a year ago. By the time I heard from them and they had awarded me £45 a week, I had changed jobs and was no longer eligible for it. Feeling spurred on by the fact that I could be entitled to £45 a week, I strived to get a job with 30 hours a week. At the end of August I finally achieved this status again. I got in touch and filled out the forms. I sent them off and phoned them 2 weeks later to see if all was going well. 'Everything is going through without a problem' they assured me.
4 weeks ago and no word from them, I phoned them up. They told me that my claim had been withdrawn and that I had to reapply to get a 'cash award'. Begrudgingly, I filled out the said paperwork again. Earlier this week on Monday I phoned them, they told me that my application had been processed and that it was just awaiting a cash award. 'Whoopee' said me!!!
On Wednesday I phoned them up to see if there had been any progress. They told me that there was no sign of my latest application on the system and that I should reapply. AGAIN???
I have sent for the relevant forms to fill out once again alongside a complaints form.
Anyone any advice on WTF they are playing at?
Inland Revenue, Social Security, the council etc. are all useless. They never do what they tell you they will, you have to keep on pestering them to get them to do stuff (in the process doing their job for them), otherwise it never gets done, and they tell you one thing and then tell you another. So WTF is going on is that they're a total joke.
I had the council once try to get me to pay council tax even though I had proof I was a student - every time I was told on the phone that it would get sorted out, when I saw them in person I'd be told it wasn't sorted at all and I still needed to pay. They even sent debt collectors after me - only a visit to the citizen's advice bureau stopped the madness.
Originally posted by jimslyp69Why was your clain withdrawn?
I am on a low income but satisfy all of the criteria to be entitled to this BINGO pay out system. I first applied to working tax credits a year ago. By the time I heard from them and they had awarded me £45 a week, I had changed jobs and was no longer eligible for it. Feeling spurred on by the fact that I could be entitled to £45 a week, I strived to get ...[text shortened]... out once again alongside a complaints form.
Anyone any advice on WTF they are playing at?
When a claim is made your are either entitled based on your personal circumstances and an award is made or you are not entitled and a £0.00 award is made.
If you were initially entitled, then a change of circumstances - better paid job, meant you were no longer entitled then the award would be reduced possibly to as low a £0.00.
Personally speaking the sooner they do away with tax credits the better as they are a disincentive to work. After all if you have a job that entitles you to say £50 per week in tax credits (£2,600 per year for eff all) are you really wanting to go and do the extra hours or part time work that means you would need to earn around £3,800 more just to take home the same money (£3,800 less 22% tax and 11% NIC).
If you were earning £10 per hour this means you would need to do 380 hours work per year or nearly 7.5 hours extra per week.
At just £8 per hour you need to work an extra 475 hours per year or just over 9 hours per week.
The choice becomes sit on your fat rrrrrrs and take home £50 per week of tax credits or work your rrrrrrs off doing say 36 hours extra a month and taking home the same money.
Nuts, the whole system is nuts.
Originally posted by adramforallThey couldn't tell me why it was withdrawn. This was the crazy part. Surely the data protection act entitles me to know any information about myself?
Why was your clain withdrawn?
When a claim is made your are either entitled based on your personal circumstances and an award is made or you are not entitled and a £0.00 award is made.
If you were initially entitled, then a change of circumstances - better paid job, meant you were no longer entitled then the award would be reduced possibly to as lo ...[text shortened]... 36 hours extra a month and taking home the same money.
Nuts, the whole system is nuts.[/b]
anyways, I like sitting on my rrrrrsss.
However, had I known that thye were gong to carry on like this, I would have just taken the 10 hours a week extra that they offered me in the first place.
Never mind. Things could be a lot worse.