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  • Zedicus
    Zedicus Posts: 246 Forumite
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    Azari wrote: »
    Maybe the above is an on-line version and the OP is using a paper version?

    Sort of, but I think its the other way round.

    If you complete the application on line you have to print a single page yourself, sign it, and send it off with your bits and pieces.

    No idea what the wording was but the form looked nothing like the section 9 pointed to in this thread.
  • peachyprice
    peachyprice Posts: 22,346 Forumite
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    The paper version is the same as the one Powerful Rogue posted a link to, except it's brown.

    The online version only presents you with the pages that you need and a declaration sheet to sign, there are no 'extra' boxes on it, and as Zedicus has said, it's nothing like the paper one.
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  • Zedicus
    Zedicus Posts: 246 Forumite
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    Ha!

    Found the PDF file.

    This is the declaration

    Make of that what you will.
  • Admittedly the declaration linked to by Zedicus isn't 100% foolproof (what is!) but if I were completing it I'd only complete the two boxes on the bottom right if I were applying on "behalf" of someone else.
  • Poppie68
    Poppie68 Posts: 4,881 Forumite
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    edited 7 January 2016 at 8:37AM
    The op was venting his/anger as this is the appropriate forum for that, if they had come on for advice I'm sure they would of chosen one of the others, preferably the holiday board!
  • Azari
    Azari Posts: 4,317 Forumite
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    Admittedly the declaration linked to by Zedicus isn't 100% foolproof (what is!)

    Well, the form linked to by powerfulrogue seemed to manage it. ;)

    You have to wonder why they would change a completely unambiguous box caption to one that is unclear for no apparent reason.
    There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.
  • Zedicus wrote: »
    Ha!

    Found the PDF file.

    This is the declaration

    Make of that what you will.

    Still seems pretty straightforward to me. Even the guidance notes talk about if you are making the application on behalf of somebody else.
  • powerful_Rogue
    powerful_Rogue Posts: 8,488 Forumite
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    edited 7 January 2016 at 8:37AM
    I think its pretty obvious that you only fill those boxes in if you are applying on behalf of somebody else such as a child.

    Not exactly rocket science.
  • photome
    photome Posts: 16,685 Forumite
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    Zedicus wrote: »
    Ha!

    Found the PDF file.

    This is the declaration

    Make of that what you will.

    Looks straight forward to me
  • hollydays
    hollydays Posts: 19,812 Forumite
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    Did the op apply online?
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