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Its tough, it will get better and guess what its freezing brrrrr!

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  • mardatha
    mardatha Posts: 15,612 Forumite
    Yes NB. That's the one who never comes at all ! Well the binbag was windproof ! and we let him breath!
    ... occasionally.
  • grandma247
    grandma247 Posts: 2,412 Forumite
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    csarina wrote: »
    I have found they do not work too well in my bread mixer,

    I


    I found that aldi bread mixes do best on the fastest setting on the bm
  • jaxx46
    jaxx46 Posts: 613 Forumite
    Happy Birthday Pagangirl
    Your money will be backdated but can take a while to get sorted. We ended up having to get crisis loans for three weeks on the trot and each week they gave us less and less and they would not pay travel costs for my son to go to school!! However with the help of everyone on mse we got through it and so will you ((((hugs))))
    Sometimes not moving backwards is as much an achievement as moving forwards is on other times. (originally posted by kidcat)

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  • taplady
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    bitterandtwisted - well done on the job!:T

    Sammy - hope you're feeling ok after your accident this afternoon x
    Do what you love :happyhear
  • katholicos
    katholicos Posts: 2,658 Forumite
    bitterandtwisted, so sorry that i missed your good news. Congratulations!
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  • Kitcaboodle
    Kitcaboodle Posts: 157 Forumite
    edited 16 October 2010 at 10:02PM
    littleowl wrote: »
    I know Mardatha - my son is out of work - has been for 9 weeks or more and not yet received anything from JSA or anything else. They do keep messing up his claim. Fortunately he had saved a little but that has now run out....

    Even with my own son I have some reserve - he gave up his job - the circumstances were pretty horrendous - but I have a conviction that you have to stick with what may be an unpleasant situation however much it hurts so am a little ambivalent about the fact that he has yet received no benefits.

    I'm afraid that if the Jobcentre are aware that he gave up his previous job then, depending on the circumstances, his benefits would probably be sanctioned (in other words, he'd probably find that they wouldn't give him any benefit for six months, unless he was in real financial hardship in which case he could apply for hardship payments).

    When he signed on, if he told them the situation then it has probably had to go off to a decision maker to see if he will get benefit or not. At our jobcentre, they usually selected to pay JSA while making a decision and then stop when they are able to review it if they decide against the customer/claimant. Other jobcentres may have different policies.

    In the jobcentre where I worked, unless you had a redundancy letter or worked for a company who went under, they would write to the company as a matter of course to check why the person left.

    The way this is dealt with may differ regionally - it doesn't have to automatically be a six month period that they sanction you for but in our area that tended to be the default choice. So, thought I'd share with you that this may be why your son isn't getting benefit at the moment.

    I'm not sure what they would consider good reasons for resigning. In the short period that I worked as an advisor I always gave the customer plenty of time to write an explanation that would argue their case as well as possible though (which is possibly why they moved me, I was too slow!)
  • charlies-aunt
    charlies-aunt Posts: 1,605 Forumite
    edited 17 October 2010 at 12:33PM
    Happy Birthday Pagan!
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  • I'm afraid that if the Jobcentre are aware that he gave up his previous job then, depending on the circumstances, his benefits would probably be sanctioned (in other words, he'd probably find that they wouldn't give him any benefit for six months, unless he was in real financial hardship in which case he could apply for hardship payments).

    When he signed on, if he told them the situation then it has probably had to go off to a decision maker to see if he will get benefit or not. At our jobcentre, they usually selected to pay JSA while making a decision and then stop when they are able to review it if they decide against the customer/claimant. Other jobcentres may have different policies.

    In the jobcentre where I worked, unless you had a redundancy letter or worked for a company who went under, they would write to the company as a matter of course to check why the person left.

    The way this is dealt with may differ regionally - it doesn't have to automatically be a six month period that they sanction you for but in our area that tended to be the default choice. So, thought I'd share with you that this may be why your son isn't getting benefit at the moment.

    I'm not sure what they would consider good reasons for resigning. In the short period that I worked as an advisor I always gave the customer plenty of time to write an explanation that would argue their case as well as possible though (which is possibly why they moved me, I was too slow!)

    Yes - I am aware of this as is he. The fact that he was working 16 hour shifts with one twenty minute break which was completely against the European Working Time Directive has cut no ice.
    But - as I said - in this climate I would have urged him not to resign and have little sympathy for his situation in that respect - although he is my son and I love him and hate the situation he is in, even though it is one of his own making.
  • NualaBuala
    NualaBuala Posts: 2,507 Forumite
    mardatha wrote: »
    Yes NB. That's the one who never comes at all ! Well the binbag was windproof ! and we let him breath!
    ... occasionally.
    See you had him spoiled really!:D
    Trying to spend less time on MSE so I can get more done ... it's not going great so far! :)
    Sorry if I don't reply to posts - I'm having MAJOR trouble keeping up these days!

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  • v1ckyt
    v1ckyt Posts: 320 Forumite
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    edited 16 October 2010 at 11:02PM
    Red_Doe wrote: »
    :rotfl: gods that sounds sooo familiar! :D Dad had a similar experience, having two dead stags bleeding into buckets hanging in the doorway of an outbuilding whilst two polis stopped by for a..um...chat... :D
    it was only blind luck they didn`t turn round, and dad, who`d been in the middle of processing them, spent all his time talking with his hands behind his back. Because they were bloody up the the elbows :D
    We ate well though. :cool:


    I can remember as a child going out to play on my swing and there was a funny smell in the air and the swing seat was wet (but clean!) and asking mum about it, she said I was imagining it. Years later she confessed dad had come across a car that had hit and killed a deer outright, so had bought it home, hung and butchered it from my swing frame. As you say though we ate well so no complaints from me. We're chuffed this week as have been given a chain saw by a friend and (a very old delapidated) shed via freecycle so hubby has chopped it all up for firewood, Shold keep us cosy in the coming months which with a baby due in 3 weeks will be handy.

    SammyKaye hope you're feeling ok after the ball incident?

    Hubby works at Mr W's and some of their general reductions are very good, but their staff reductions are fab, and really only due to damaged packaging rather than short dating. We live a frugal life, but have some luxurious ice creams in the freezer due to split packaging, makes life not feel quite so frugal after all!
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