For all the benefit advisors and other that give their expertise!

atomicsheep

I've had...

"60.50 per week!!! well that's not goig to pay for my BMW is it?"

Mr_Falling_Star

This gets me as well, I always used to say something along the lines of "Look, we publish all the benefit rates and rules,there are no secrets,we could have answered your questions about different situations if you had asked us. If you didn't think you could manage then you should have made some preparations"

Not sympathetic or very understanding but it got the point through to some punters

Anyway I am trying to be a bit more active on this board. Its better than being negative on the recession board

nova

Hi There!
Can l just say my OH's self employed and we're grateful for every bit of help, it was 3 years before we realised we could claim WFTC, please dont tar everyone with the same brush.
Nova XX

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Going back about 8 or 9 years to the old style dhss offices i remember being in there one day when i young man was arguing the toss about a crisis loan,he suddenly got up went outside and came back in with a very young baby,handed said baby to girl behind the desk and said "here you feed her and buy her nappies" and walked out.
I was utterly gob smacked

seven-day-weekend

I have worked in Customer Services when I was in the Planning Department; it was part of my job to see the people who'd come in to reception. Being Planning and not DSS, most of them were fine, especially if you explained to them why they were not getting the answer they wanted.

But even there you could get some who were nasty, because they couldn't get planning permission/their neighbout had got planning permission. I remember some of the most common remarks were 'I pay my Council Tax you know' (as though I (or their neighbour) didn't), 'Nobody gives ME a free Council house' (no-one gives me one either), 'I have to work for a living you know' (Er....do they think I'm standing behind the counter answering their queries for fun?).

Having said that most were fine. It was the people who worked in Housing Benefits who REALLY got it in the neck.

Keep up the good work, all.

seven-day-weekend

I did work for a while in a Local Housing Office and some of the comments I got there were dreadful, I couldn't have stood working there much longer than the two months I did.

Quotes: (All spoken/yelled aggressively)

I ain't got no Central heating.
I ain't got nowhere to mend me car.
Me smoke alarm's stopped working - (even more aggressively when it was suggested they might put a battery in it ) - it's your f***in house not mine.
Me wallpaper's all come off.
Me cooker's broke an I can't give the kids any breakfast.

I would have killed someone if I'd have stayed there much longer!

bestpud

7DW - don't you sleep?

alwaysonthego_2

bestpud wrote: »

7DW - don't you sleep?

I was thinking the same thing about you misses posting at 6ish this morning

bestpud

alwaysonthego wrote: »

I was thinking the same thing about you misses posting at 6ish this morning

Well, it's better than 4am!

But, no, I can't sleep at the moment, and boy am I narky as a consequence!

alwaysonthego_2

bestpud wrote: »

Well, it's better than 4am!

But, no, I can't sleep at the moment, and boy am I narky as a consequence!

It's not surprising hun, if you need to chat, just pm me if you need to get it off your chest x