Will I get a Crisis Loan

bestpud

Did you apply, OP?

It does look very suspicious, it has to be said, but I'm sure these things do happen from time to time.

Never seen a similar question from a working person though. :cool:

sniggings

dreamylittledream wrote: »

What's that you say - a lost wallet, on pay day, on the bus?

Living with mum who is also on benefits and no-one else in the world can help and mummy dear will allow her poor son to starve if a crisis loan can't help?

My my its almost like a round of crisis loan bingo all in one application - what a cracking debut. Still these things can happen...

FWIW the OP will probabaly have got paid if it was his first application - but 13 days at the >25 non householder rate gives a max award of £31.46 so I suspect he may not have found the whole experience worth his while.

so bitter, it is a loan not free money!

missapril75

sniggings wrote: »

so bitter, it is a loan not free money!

It's only a loan if it actually is paid back. There are threads here where debts from the 1990s have just been resurrected.:eek:

Many aren't and never will be. And they aren't all piddling amounts.

I don't know the limits now but when it was a thousand, you'd have couples owing say £600 each (from claims as 'singles') and the £1200 debt would prevent a further loan. (these debts could be a mixture of Crisis and Budgeting loans)

So they would "separate" and have another loan (sometimes each one), then reconcile (:rotfl:) so the debt was even bigger with just one repayment.

Then there are those continually topping up with a lifetime on benefits ahead of them.

The amount never paid back is not small.

Can any current staff confirm this stuff still happens?