Pollyanna

ChopinonaBudget

Wow, this is trickier than I thought.

I've had one email back from a publisher who wants to know how many print runs I'm going to do, the selling price of my edition, and how many other protected copies in my edition. :eek: I know none of this!!! :eek:

I've emailed a publishing house and asked them if they would be interested in publishing all of my arrangements as a whole load, which would be great from my point of view as it would mean I would get an entire volume of works, and it would also mean they would deal with the copyrighting issues. I doubt they'll go for it though so I'll probably end up self publishing

It's certainly interesting learning about all this....

ChopinonaBudget

Oh and I got the letter back from Tex credits, I get £286 every 4 weeks, that's about £130 more than I was expecting! (They're not overpaying me, I just wildly undersetimated my claim) :T

ChopinonaBudget

And with minutes to go before my first student gets here, I found a public domain copy of another of my arrangements. Copyright not needed for that either! 2 down, several million to go

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Daughter still looks like she crawled out of something infested and plague ridden. Bless.
I'm working my way through IMSLP looking for a rather elusive piece of music, whilst keeping my email open in the vague hope that someone at Faber might be working late (hahahahahah!) Funny.

ChopinonaBudget

Hah! I'm doing a paid survey about my interest in "financial products".
That's ironic when I've got MSE open in another browser window.....

ChopinonaBudget

Silly Survey. Asking me what banks I would use for a "premier account" My answer? "I never pay for accounts. Ever."

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b****y survey! Kept me going for a shed load of questions than stopped dead "We have enough responses in this group" - well you could have found that out ten minutes previously without asking me 25 questions about banking and credit cards.
I sent complaint email. I don't usually do that for petty things but I'm in a petty mood and that p****d me off :mad:

ani_26

ChopinonaBudget wrote: »

Oh and I got the letter back from Tex credits, I get £286 every 4 weeks, that's about £130 more than I was expecting! (They're not overpaying me, I just wildly undersetimated my claim) :T

Hi coab :hello:

I couldn't help thinking when i read this, i would tread carefully with ( tex?) credits. If it's £130 more than you were expecting, it could well be? I had an income of less than £6k a year, and i was receiving ALOT less than £286 every 4 weeks, and now it's overpayments, pay back time. They have a tendency to come back and bite you in the bum, so to speak, and they don't take no, for an answer. I assume having one? dependant won't affect your claim to a great extent?


The experience i've had with tc's would defintitely make me think twice before applying for them in the future, however poor i am. You only have to look on the benefits board to see how many people have problems regarding overpayment of tc's, especially if you are self employed / have a fluctuating income. xx

ChopinonaBudget

Thank you I know what you mean about overpayments, I get stung every year for them as I guess my income based as the precious year's and I always goes up. I also had a student 6 or 7 years ago who was almost made destitute by the original big overpayments disaster I do think this figure is right tho, I checked the figures they're using and it's all correct. To be fair, every time I use online calculators for anything I gt it wrong, so I'm not that storied I got this wrong too.
Dependants do make quite a bit of difference, by the way, there is some of that figure made up of child tax credit

I can't afford to not apply, however much of a risk overpayments are, as I need these benefits. But I do know what you mean; I stopped applying for housing benefit earlier than I should have done because the hassle I use to get from them was unbelievable: 6 months of appeals EVERY single time, arguments back and forth with idiot little jobsworths who wanted to know irrelevant information. When I got badly stressed with a very bad relationship 2 years ago, I couldn't cope with their harrasment any more so stopped applying. Which does p*** me off as their plan technically worked; make it so difficult for people to get what they are entitled to that they give up.

ani_26

Looks like you've got the measure of it all, then. All i can say is good luck xx Yep, had the same experiences with hb and ctb. If you don't fit into a box, you're stuffed, and you do give up trying to claim what you know fine well, you are entitled to. On your own, and the stress is a killer. xx