h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Dear Mr. Bagpuss,
I am sorry to tell you that we cannot backdate your Jobseeker's Allowance from 25.12.09 to 28.12.09. This is because we have decided that you did not have a good reason for the delay in making your claim.

Appeal, give the jobsworths something to do

ahhh the joylessness............ one needs this sort of thing to keep up ones fight against the machine!

I can phone them up to find out more. I am curious as to when I was meant to put in the claim. Maybe I have to tell the answering machine as soon as possible.

I had to work on Christmas Day, so should they, framdammit!

I think you may get more sense out of the water cooler Baggie

That is just ridiculous. Good grief.

I was quite impressed with the form the DWP/Jobcenter + sent me just* before Christmas...

They wanted me to tell them what benifits they gave me. Which, I kind of thought they knew... as they're the ones who pay them out to me... I guess it keeps someone in a basic minimum wage job sending them out, then taking them back in, filing them, and then checking if you've made an error in telling them how much they give you: I almost certainly have as looking through my bank statements whilst filling the form in I notice one varys occasionally from one payment to another I think the job centre plus must be where they train people to be incompetant enough to work for the students loan company; of course though, to graduate that* far you have to both have a demonstraible level of incompetance combined with a consistant level of unfailing gross incompetance and utter incompetance, plus of course Btec and GNVQ level 1, 2, and 3 incompetancy... At least I don't have to deal with student loans much anymore

I thought you were still taking courses at the School of hard Knocks, 2Legs.

Ah, at least you have the possibility of Benefits; i don't even have 'Habitual Residency' here in Eye land, despite having an Irish father; i was idiotic enough to say honestly that i had arrived via France (no passport stamp) so i have to exist on nothing for two years.

A British passport and proven Disability Allowance in France, which is supposedly transferable direct within E.U doesn't count, since France isn't part of 'The Common Travel Area'

*hiss*spit*seethe*

*Rage against the Machine*

zdt

I've not had a good 'hard knock' in ages...

for Terri. That makes little sense.

I've had a lot of correspondence from the Jobcentre lately. Firstly to tell me my claim wasn't being backdated, then to tell me it had ended (I'm working at the moment) and give me my P45, then to tell me it had begun and how much I would be paid. Was being paid. Had been paid. Whatever.

However, I must praise their efficiency since I haven't received the P45 from Borders yet.

Note for non-Britons: Form P45 must be provided by an employer on termination of employment (or by the Jobcentre on termination of benefits). It contains various tax details for you to pass on to your next employer.

I'm glad to hear that you're working!

I've never had a P45 in my life... Should have gotten one I guess when the last job ended... Actually that reminds me, I oughta be due some bluddy tax back, from the job I finished over a year ago now... Mind, just getting a new job might be nice now
: the job center got really confuddled with me, as I was* due to start a job, then due to the DWP messing up the funding for the project and not knowing what they were doing, the job ceased to exist, so I didn't start it as there then wasn't a job... Luckily they don't appear to have done anythign drastic like cancel my benifits Mind I'm still pretty sure I'm on the wrong benifit and oughta be getting more, but no one at the job center when I call them is able to understand why I might even contemplate changing on to the right benifit

That sounds like a mess, but we can mess things up in my area, too. Last week, a cat was called for jury duty.