esa backdated

cit_k

tcr wrote: »

The point of this forum is to give accurate, current advice. Not to share anecdotes from your time claiming from the Ministry of Pensions in the year nineteen hundred and oatcake.

I'm telling you that benefit sections do not refer arrears cases to Social Fund for offset. They might have done when you were still in britches, but they don't now. So my advice to the OP is sit back & wait for the backdated money coming through.

And that's that. Now toodle back off to www.insufferablepedant.com.

How come I never contacted the crisis loan people and told them when my benefits were finaly (after months) sorted out, yet not long after they were sorted out, they started to deduct the crisis loan?

Why, did they keep changing altering how much I had to pay?

Why did I never get asked how much I would agree to pay back (ever??) - it was all decided by them, with me never agreeing or having any input?

cit_k

hobbledehoy. wrote: »

Hello

I honestly find your attitude distasteful. They were good enough to give you the Crisis Loan when you needed it, yet you come out with the garbage that you don't want to make it easy for them....revenge!

Maybe in the future, should you ever need another Crisis Loan, they could say no, and that would be your fault!

Your attitude quite honestly stinks!

Woman or man, I don't care. When somebody offers their hand to give you a lift up....you turn round and shaft them.

I do wonder if you still have friends if that is how you repay people for their generosity.

The decent thing to do is repay what you had and thank them for the help they gave you in the past. But maybe you are not a decent human being!

I would say the decent thing in circumstances where the crisis loan was needed due to the DWP's own incompetance, would be for the DWP to hold their hands up, say Im sorry, you should not have had to go without benefits for such a long time, you should not have been put through all the stress of an appeal and having to claim crisis loans for money you were ALL ALONG LEGALLY ENTITLED TO, and write of the loan completely as compensation for the stress/worry caused to an ill person.

tonybur

Having worked as a senior decision maker on JSA for 4 years and a crisisloan reviewing officer for two... And seeing this play out at least once day for those two years, I can say that crisisloan debt CAN NOT be taken out of arrears payments.

The letter received will have been from Debt MAnagement- the section that chase debt that has not been repaid from benefit ( obviously because benefit was in doubt) but is a demand based on that fact and the assumption that as benefit is not in pay then the debtor must be working( you don't expect these sections to communicate do you?)

They are independent. Yes a Change of CIrcs may cause SOcial FUnd deductions to raise, but I challenge any of you to find where in law it is stated that it is a customers responsibility to notify changes to social fund when ON benefit..


Spanned your arrears and agree to deductions form your ESA going forward.

help4help2013

i hope this is not true and they stick to there agreement to pay back what you can each week instead of taking all he esa arrears that seem unfair as its money you would have got if the claim had not been stopped in the first place and the same amount would have been taken anyway