Warning! Big benefit payments shake-up: frequency and pay-day will change for most

meluvnext

This already happened to me about 2 years ago as I was on income support as a single parent and carer to my child who receives dla mid rate. My benefits due date stayed the same (thursday in line with the last two digits of NI (69)). I was offered a loan but didnt really need it. I had no problems and I was forewarned. Though I can see how i could affect many.

Joelulu

Not getting at anyone but might it be better to start a new thread, it would get more attention.

oojimmyflip

Hi, firstly I would like to point out that if you are recieving incapacity benefits soon to be called universal credit you will still have to undergo the changes the above info is incorrect, what it should say is that weekly disability benefits paid by Blackpool remain the same as regards Payment, incapacity is paid from Nottingham from a different office this is the one that will change.

My GP helped me fight off this change because I found that I wouldnt be able to manage very well with the changes. when you suffer memory difficulties on a day to day basis it is much better for things to happen on a weekly basis than fornightly because there is much less time for the memory to forget.
Then in January 2012 I had yet another letter from the Nottingham office pestering me to undergo the changes if not I should provide yet more Gp statments to prove I could not hack the changes. so i wrote a letter to the Notting office and told them all of my personal details in regards to paying my bills, I recieved a good letter from the manager saying that the changes would occur on the 30th of March after I had paid all of my bills, so i would not have to worry about paying my bills when the week without money comes along. I did not want to borrow any money from them if at all possible. I didnt want to be in any debt with them.

well the 30th of March came and went and nothing had happened at all so I telephoned them just in case they decided they wanted some money back for overpayment the only answer I could get was it is all in hand, then on the 23rd of April less than a week before had to pay out my monthly bills the income stopped for a week, (!!!!!!!s I thought to myself) so I am going to make a complaint and ask for a supporting letter from my GP to return to weekly payments this is a terrible way to treat people by telling them one thing and doing something else effectively dropping people in the s*it. I have not been in any debt for the last 15 years I am now though because the benefits office cannot do their jobs properly. they are for all intensive purposes unreliable and liars. I dont care if they think this is deflamatory because I am telling the truth about what happened to me.

so if your entering a period that they say will be a smooth transition from one system to the other do not believe their promises to change your payments over on the dates they say they will.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

A note for people that think others on benefits are "scroungers" may I suggest that they go away and try to survive on £70 a week before they become so critical of others who may like myself have worked most of their lives and paid a lot of taxes and then suffered an industrial injury that caused so much incapacity that they can never work again.
so when people talk about "scroungers" on benefits please don't tar us all with the same brush because it hurts our pride very much so, esspecially when some of us were born here in the UK and have paid into the tax system for most of our lives.