DWP Help with Mortgage Interest

Tommo1980

Then stop claiming PIP and put in a claim for AA. Job done and you can stop crying about it. At least until we get the whole 'I tried to claim AA but was refused because I let some random Job Centre employee fill in the form and they did it all wrong' saga again.

How are the grandkids these days? Still benefiting from your state handouts?

takman

Danday wrote: »

I think I have a right to criticise the DWP in the way they are treating me with regards to PIP. I really doubt many others are having to prove their entitlement every 24 months presumably for the rest of their life.

You say you on the enhanced rate which seems to amount to £83.10 a week; over two years that is £8642.40.

So your effectively being paid £8642.40 to attend an assessment once every two years and then fill out some forms to appeal it and maybe have to attend a second meeting. Yet you still feel the need to complain!.

bspm1

Tommo1980 wrote: »

Then stop claiming PIP and put in a claim for AA. Job done and you can stop crying about it. At least until we get the whole 'I tried to claim AA but was refused because I let some random Job Centre employee fill in the form and they did it all wrong' saga again.

How are the grandkids these days? Still benefiting from your state handouts?

I think it was the ESA form that was filled in at the Job Centre but easily confused Tommo with the amount of lies this delightful character types.

poppy12345

bspm1 wrote: »

I think it was the ESA form that was filled in at the Job Centre but easily confused Tommo with the amount of lies this delightful character types.

I have a feeling it was the PIP form. The last username had the story of being on DLA, refused PIP without an assessment so put in an MR then got refused. Applied for AA then got refused. :rotfl:

Tommo1980

You're right poppy. You have a better memory than I. Odds on we will get a different variation on the story soon enough lol.

borkid

Danday wrote: »

It's only now that SERCO are making contact citing the delay on the DWP for not giving them information any earlier - this was last Wednesday.

My daughter was contacted a few months ago by Serco and they have been hasselling her ever since. They haven't even managed to use the correct contact number.

TOBRUK

borkid wrote: »

My daughter was contacted a few months ago by Serco and they have been hasselling her ever since. They haven't even managed to use the correct contact number.

This is worrying, especially those who are worried about the ceasing of SMI help and the worry of taking up a loan. I have been contacted by SERCO 3 times since I declined this loan, trying to persuade me to take it up and asking what I am going to do if I can't keep up with the payments!

If you look into SERCO (you don't have to look hard) as I did, as I worry about taking up any kind of loan, it really doesn't read well. A FTSE 100 INDEX private company who in 2013 was up for fraud and tax avoidance, and is well known for overcharging. Although they got off with fraud, they had to recompense the taxpayer £68.5 million excluding VAT for the overcharging found in an audit of Ministry of Justice contracts.

They have government contracts in billions, and in different areas such as prisons (they run a few), NHS, rail etc and they have contracts in many countries. They made £82.1m profit in 2016.

As a private company who is known for its overcharging, and with taking up this loan, they can't tell me how much the interest rate will go up in future. If I wanted to pay some of the loan off, the minimum repayments would be £100 (how much of this would be interest?)per payment.

Some may think the goverment are offering this loan and will believe it is being helpful, however, it is a private (for profit) company, and if people in the future have problems with it, will the goverment do something to help?

BorisThomson

TOBRUK wrote: »

This is worrying, especially those who are worried about the ceasing of SMI help and the worry of taking up a loan. I have been contacted by SERCO 3 times since I declined this loan, trying to persuade me to take it up and asking what I am going to do if I can't keep up with the payments!

Makes you wonder if they're target/ commission driven.

TOBRUK

BorisThomson wrote: »

Makes you wonder if they're target/ commission driven.

I am wondering how long it will take them to phone me again and try to persuade me to take it up. Last time I declined, they told me that I can take it up at any time if I wish.

Danday

takman wrote: »

You say you on the enhanced rate which seems to amount to £83.10 a week; over two years that is £8642.40.

So your effectively being paid £8642.40 to attend an assessment once every two years and then fill out some forms to appeal it and maybe have to attend a second meeting. Yet you still feel the need to complain!.

As I have said and I repeat it, I have no objections to being re-assessed what I am objecting to is the re-assessment taking place every 2 years. Plus I have yet to receive a report from the assessors that bears any resemblance to the truth as to what I said or what the evidence I supplied them at the assessment. They seem hell bent on trying to make sure that I have to appeal every time. Where they come up with the idea that my difficulties will change for the better I don't know. They have been like this for over 20 years so can't see how another 2 years will make any difference.