Income Support Appeal....am I in the wrong???

welshmoneylover

Crikey, this thread has soon turned into a right bun fight :eek:

Lauzxx

lovely! me too!:j

NASA wrote: »

:rotfl:

I've plenty of time on my hands. Long weekend to watch the football.

Lauzxx

Flossy Splodge, Thank u so much, I am truly grateful for you advice!! Thank u hun xx

flossy_splodge wrote: »

I'm really shocked at the apparent lack of understanding displayed on this thread.
iamanalias - if you really work in special needs then I am horrified at your lack of compassion. I hope you display more in your work.
Lauzxx, please try to calm down. Responding to unkindness does not stop people being unkind.
I wish it did.
I am currently supporting part of my family who are having the most horrendous things to deal with, not their fault but whatever they try seems to make things worse and I see their upset. The problem is, if calm advice is offered, it sort of gets lost in the anger and upset.
You seem to be doing the same.
Hard I know, but try to sift through the posts and extract what may help.
I put the family members I am supporting in touch with their MP, I did it in order to reperesent the situation calmly, succinctly and hopefully in a balanced way.
You need to do the same or get someone to stand with you who can do this for you.
The situation you describe is appalling but I'm sorry to say not at all unusual for the DWP.
Something about pay peanuts get monkeys comes to mind.
As an organisation they have way too much work and way too few competent people to sort things out so hang on in there and please please try and keep calm.
Best wishes.

SingleSue

Just butting in here....

I have dyslexia and I can't for the life of me work out text speak! If someone writes gr8at, I read it as g r 8 (seperate sounds), my brain just cannot process it at all, it just appears as gobblygook.

As for the initial question, not a scoobie what I would do but I would probably be raising merry hell too.

flossy_splodge

What I forgot to add was that in my case I arranged a face to face with the MP after a couple of phone calls and discussion with their PA and the MP has now taken the problem down to Westminster.

MPs are all individuals and lucky for us, this one seems to care (AND understand;)).

So don't be put off your MP as a source of support, they're paid to serve the people even tho you wouldn't know it sometimes!:rotfl:

tcr_3

If they calculate an overpayment back to last year, there's every chance you won't be required to pay anything back. That's because you disclosed your student status and Income Support didn't follow it up. You've got the documents to prove that.

So if they paid you too much there's every chance it'll be written off as an "official error" overpayment ... and if it's written up that way, you might get a letter asking to voluntarily pay it back ... but you'd be under no obligation to do so. If they write up the overpayment in any other way let us know, I'm sure someone will help out.

Oldernotwiser

Sorry if I've missed anything in all the hooha but surely just the Maintenance Loan itself would make you ineligible for IS?

Lauzxx

Im hoping so!! Thank u xx

tcr wrote: »

If they calculate an overpayment back to last year, there's every chance you won't be required to pay anything back. That's because you disclosed your student status and Income Support didn't follow it up. You've got the documents to prove that.

So if they paid you too much there's every chance it'll be written off as an "official error" overpayment ... and if it's written up that way, you might get a letter asking to voluntarily pay it back ... but you'd be under no obligation to do so. If they write up the overpayment in any other way let us know, I'm sure someone will help out.

Lauzxx

This could possibly be true. My maintenance loan is 5907. When applying i didnt know what % of the msintenance loan they include as on the direct.gov it states the MAJORITY is classed as income. I just needed them to put the disregards down on paper so i could see the way they broke it down rather than just give me a figure and tell me i have more than the law says you can live on.

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Sorry if I've missed anything in all the hooha but surely just the Maintenance Loan itself would make you ineligible for IS?