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DWP's Obligation to Benefit Claimants

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  • poppy12345
    poppy12345 Posts: 18,899 Forumite
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    Regardless of what happened, as has been said many times. DWP paid the money into your bank account, what happens after that is your responsibility and not there's. You will not receive the money back from DWP.



    I'm out.
  • Poppy,

    The DWP paid my benefit entitlement into my bank account. If someone else took that benefit that I am legally entitled to then the onus is in law on the DWP to replace it.

    I don't know what they have you convinced of but it's wrong.

    Regards


    James
  • Provide a link to this specific law?
  • JamesA999 wrote: »

    Say I hand you £100 and you run off with it. Is it my problem for trusting you or can't you be trusted after you told me you would take that money buy me my shopping and bring it back with my change.

    I cannot decide if you perhaps have a mental disability as the examples you are using to prove your point make no sense.

    If you gave Poppy £100, and she ran off, you could call the police.

    Who do you think you could make give you your money back? The bank? God?

    The only person responsible for giving you back your money in that situation would be Poppy, cos she stole it. The only person responsible for giving you your money back is your 'friend' who stole it. Not the bank. Not the DWP. Not me, the taxpayer. I'm not paying for you to be daft with your financial security.
  • Silvertabby
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    JamesA999 wrote: »
    Poppy,

    The DWP paid my benefit entitlement into my bank account. If someone else took that benefit that I am legally entitled to then the onus is in law on the DWP to replace it.

    I don't know what they have you convinced of but it's wrong.

    Regards


    James


    Sorry James, but Poppy is right and you are wrong. As soon as the DWP payment hit your bank account, DWP had done their job. End of. From that point onwards, this became your money and your responsibility. It's now between you and the person you willingly gave your bank card to. Good luck with that.
  • Carrot007
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    JamesA999 wrote: »
    Poppy,

    The DWP paid my benefit entitlement into my bank account. If someone else took that benefit that I am legally entitled to then the onus is in law on the DWP to replace it.

    I don't know what they have you convinced of but it's wrong.

    Regards


    James


    You breeched the terms of your bank account by giving the card to another person.


    And I do not see why you could not go down to the hospital shoppy bit and get some cash out like in every hospital I have been in. If for some reason you could not then why not use someone you trusted.


    You are clutching at straws over a technicallity of language. Hopefully if it goes to court it will be thrown out and no costs awards. Maybe even you pay the other sides costs for wasting their time.


    Calm down, find some people you trust and move on.
  • Carot007,

    I see you know I am in the right here.

    In terms of the fact that the benefit is not mine until it has been given to me by the DWP or their agents and not to someone who the Police arrested for stealing it.

    As you also clearly know, the value on an ATM is not money or the value on a bank statement is not money until given to the claimant who has a legal right to it as money, the paper stuff not a figure on a bank statement or screen: or in exchange for something via a valid transaction by the person authorized to receive the benefit by the DWP.

    You clearly know my claim did not come in marked you are entitled to ESA and DLA now PIP and it's anyone's money who cares to try to get a hold on it.

    Thank you for taking my side.

    Regards


    James
  • sheramber
    sheramber Posts: 23,059 Forumite
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    The OP has the same arguement running on the Bank and Budgeting forum.
  • BoGoF
    BoGoF Posts: 7,098 Forumite
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    Do what I did, put him on ignore list and let this total waste of a thread die.
  • Carrot007
    Carrot007 Posts: 4,534 Forumite
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    JamesA999 wrote: »
    Carot007,

    I see you know I am in the right here.

    In terms of the fact that the benefit is not mine until it has been given to me by the DWP or their agents and not to someone who the Police arrested for stealing it.

    As you also clearly know, the value on an ATM is not money or the value on a bank statement is not money until given to the claimant who has a legal right to it as money, the paper stuff not a figure on a bank statement or screen: or in exchange for something via a valid transaction by the person authorized to receive the benefit by the DWP.

    You clearly know my claim did not come in marked you are entitled to ESA and DLA now PIP and it's anyone's money who cares to try to get a hold on it.

    Thank you for taking my side.

    Regards


    James


    Please stop drinking it is too early in the day for this.


    I think you may need to be in a secure institution while you contemplate you sanity for a bit.


    But feel free to pay out more money to lose even more. You seem to have form for it.
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