I hate our government
Posted on | November 27, 2006 | 1 Comment
HATE them. REALLY really really hate them.
Has anybody else received a letter stating they owe X amount to the DWP from sometime 6-10 years ago?
I wouldn’t mind but if they told me AT THE TIME that I owed them money it would’ve been paid.I always pay my debts which is why I was so sure this was some kind of daft mistake or a scam. I even checked the number on the net before calling in case it was a phone scam. Apparently it’s down to ‘overpayments of benefit – and they’re taking it off me from next week – no warning, no explanations – I had to call them up to find out what this debt was they were pillaging my account for, well to be truthful they’re not even pillaging my account, they’re taking it straight from my incapacity benefit before I receive it so It’s not like I can refuse to pay it or at least put it off for verification purposes.
The thing is, I don’t recall EVER receiving income support – and the dates they’ve given me (1996-97 and 2000) mean I’d have to pay my bank to find the relevant statements and have them send me the hard copy to go over – with this feckin’ cfs crap I don’t have the concentration for that! It’s one thing going over an electronic document where you can change font sizes, highlight texts, request specific transactions and cut and paste relevant info into notepad – quite another when you have to sit with a marker pen and squint at lines of transactions.
I’ve had it with this country I really have. They tax you 3 times on your wages (wages, then savings, then pension) they tax you on your goods – so in effect it’s a 4th tax on your wages since that’s what you pay for goods with and don’t even get me started on the car thing!
Then they spend all that lovely tax money on a war in another country, or in aiding another country, or in ‘officials’ visiting another country and THEN when you do happen to be on state benefit – a benefit YOU have paid for, they whittle it down and whittle it down until you’re lucky to have a roof over your head and food on the table.
and I’m not even going to START on pensions – I’m sure there’s plenty of people willing to take up that hatchet.
They don’t sort out the roads, they don’t sort out the crime (crime they’re practically forcing people into with their high handed ways) and WE pay them to not do it.
It sucks.
Did you know I’m even having to pay tax on my benefit..? I kid you not, I have an amount of incapacity that’s taxable. Ok it’s only a quid or so a month but still.. I wonder if they’ll stop taking the tax off it when they drop the amount I receive next week? Unlikely because it’s still being paid out in my name, just not to me. It’s going back to them.
I’m going back to bed now because I’m still ill and I really do not want to think about this any more *sigh* I’m gonna have to make a trip to the C.A.B. because I can’t afford to lose a 5th of my income,(sorry make that a third – 30 from 90 is a third.. just proves my maths is terrible)
***Update***
I’ve had a kip and forced a large amount of water melon and water into my system, watched “I’m a celebrity, get me out of here” (always amusing) and I’m still reeling from this.
It’s just daft – they ‘calculate’ the amount of benefit you’re given in the first place as just enough to live on – if they take a third of that ‘just enough’ amount away from me..? What kind of a mockery does that make of this system?
I’d like to see these bureaucrats live on what I have to live on – and then see how they cope with having that taken away little by little.. JESUS! As if I wasn’t already worried enough about money *sigh*
I’ve spoken to a friend who was around at the time, we’ve checked cv’s and she can’t figure out how I’ve had income support either – I know I’ve not cheated the system so I wasn’t claiming while I was working – yet according to my cv and her memory corroboration, I was working during at least one set of dates they’ve given me, the other more worrying amount is so far back I have no idea how to go about checking never mind proving it’s wrong.
How is it possible to expect payment of a supposed debt after 10 (TEN!) years anyway? No warning prior to the letter informing me they were taking the money and no information on that letter as to why.. It’s just wrong on every level!
On the plus side I got to talk to Claire tonight, since she broke her mobile after discontinuing the landline I’ve been out of verbal contact for far too long – being unable to chat to your best mate sucks donkey bollocks and I hate that more than all this financial monkeydung.
*and breathe* I think I’m done here. Anyone left..? nah, didn’t think so *blush*
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November 29th, 2006 @ 5:02 am
*and breathe* I think I’m done here. Anyone left..? nah, didn’t think so *blush*
LOL Vics, be careful what you rant about ’cause some of us are inclined to read till the end
I’m sure that debt bizzay is a type D clerical error where they basically hired someone who has [insert random profanities here] for neurons.
Try going to one of those local neighbourhood office type things and ask them to substantiate their claim. Let *them* wade through the paper work in an attempt to explain.
If they deny, just fight back. Buy a TV then develop spontaneous amnesia when it comes to the TV license
PS: get well soon!