Advice wanted for non-English speaker

ButtonF1Fan

Dear TheRecordCollector....

Ignore the nasty comments! I'm sure someone can help your friends.
Some banks will mostly likely have a polish person working at the branch. Have you considered asking in your local banks if they have a polish staff member?

i remember a polish girl wanted an interview to work at a place i used to work... but could barely speak english so anna (a polish girl who was flunent at english) sat in at interview and translated anything Agneska couldnt understand yet.

elfen

Excuse me, I'm English, I'm studying for a joint honours degree in English and I can speak French and German to a reasonable standard. I also ensure I know a little of the language before I go to a country I have never been to before as I know that even TRYING to be understood is more appreciated than not at all.

therecordcollector, is your area predominantly Polish or English, as this may affect the help they get trying to get even a small loan. Also, credit unions are a good idea, as they are run by the community for the community. (Don't pay attention to some of this lot, they instantly presume any foreigner here is trying to get benefits and not going to work)

mayday_poland

As I posted before, Polish info-line in Lloyds TSB : Just phone 0800 55 69 55 69 (Monday-Friday 10am-9pm).

@dfh
Not everything what is in Daily Mirror or Sun must be a truth. I am Polish and I don't get any benefits, tax credits or other support. I also know many families from Poland and they don't get it ether. Only because we don't need it. But... I know a few families, UK Born, which are on benefits since ever. One of my neighbours is a job seeker since 26 years and he never worked before. Once I said to him, I can ask for a job for him in company I work, but he says, he wouldn't work for less than £10/h...

Well... with those examples, I could say that all British are like them, but it is not true, same as you shouldn't say that Poles are here to get benefits, because that is not true either.

PayDay

therecordcollector wrote: »

We are friends (of some two and a half years) of a Polish couple and their small son. They have little English (though rather more than we have Polish!) and have sought our help in finding a company prepared to lend them £500 to be repaid in six months. Can anyone recommend a course of application for them ? We're disabled pensioners with VERY limited experience of the internet and we'd be grateful for any useful information anyone can provide.

I've not read the entire thread and apologise if this has already been suggested. Why not ask their employers for extra hours? Or take second jobs to raise this £500?

Failing that, if they can't get a loan here, have they tried getting a loan from a bank in Poland?

PayDay

woody01 wrote: »

I don't know if you will be successful.
A word of advice though, if they cannot get the cash, do not be tempted to lend it to them yourself.

This is good advice. I would like to add that the child will not be starving as the parents will be getting benefits for their child in the form of child benefit and generous child tax credit payments if they are on a low income.The reason I put the above is that many pensioners do not know about these benefit payments to people with children.

A neighbours 80 year old mother has just been tricked into giving money to her 30 year old granddaughter, as she told her grandmother that they were broke. The grandmother was worried that her great grandchildren were starving, so took some equity out of her house to give them. She had no idea her granddaughter and husband were claiming beneifts as she had never heard of tax credits. Back in her day, you worked to support your own family or they didn't eat.