tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post1764621794494412646..comments2023-07-04T16:57:28.929+01:00Comments on Where's the Benefit?: You Couldn't Make it Up...Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714918894319998184noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-16956210184020892292011-11-29T08:41:08.782+00:002011-11-29T08:41:08.782+00:00FNGN: Don't know about the legality of your si...FNGN: Don't know about the legality of your situation, isn't housing benefit paid via local authority, which may mean it's covered by different law. CAB may be able to advise.DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-69615106788094487902011-11-27T16:26:12.522+00:002011-11-27T16:26:12.522+00:00Making it up seems to be par for the course for Lo...Making it up seems to be par for the course for Lord Fraud - sorry Freud. One minute a banker (iirc), next a labour politician, now a tory peer.<br /><br />What a joke.<br /><br />The whole thing stinks rotten.Ghost Whistlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04894623504179269430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-90746413906337226652011-11-25T02:25:05.531+00:002011-11-25T02:25:05.531+00:00Waitwaitwaitwaitwait, so all of this bullshit I...Waitwaitwaitwaitwait, so all of this bullshit I've been putting up with trying to sort out them overpaying me housing benefit wasn't even legal? The extra costs and stress of this have been insane. :|<br /><br />(I was entitled to it, but it was apparently stopped when they sent me a letter requesting some information and I failed to respond as I hadn't received the letter, but they didn't actually stop it when it was meant to be stopped, just kept paying me for six months and never ever told me anything was wrong until I contacted them about something unrelated, at which point I got hit with a double whammy when they were all YOU OWE US OVER TWO GRAND WE'RE TAKING YOU TO COURT and also stopped paying me the money I was relying on to pay rent)Friendly Neighbourhood Grammar Nazihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15639642571642518684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-66362841105474444772011-11-24T16:18:07.658+00:002011-11-24T16:18:07.658+00:00I can't remember the precise details with my f...I can't remember the precise details with my friend, but I think it ended up as a five-figure sum they were owed and it may have stretched over a decade by the time it was sorted out. If it had been the other way round then repayments would have been problematical for most people in work, never mind on benefits!DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-83978533432071811222011-11-24T15:38:04.309+00:002011-11-24T15:38:04.309+00:00WHHHAAAT!
I was lucky, it was the DWP who owed me...WHHHAAAT!<br /><br />I was lucky, it was the DWP who owed me thousands.. but trying to get that from them was an achievement...all big ideasnoreply@blogger.com