UC Review.

HillStreetBlues

Have my UC review, this will be fun!
Went to upload my bank statements, but limit is 16 files,  yet I have 48. Does anyone know if I can do multiple uploads after I submit the first 16.

EDIT, ended up just merging them into one PDF and uploaded that.

Muttleythefrog

Yeah was just about to say.. merge pdfs.. free websites online to do it

HillStreetBlues

Muttleythefrog said:

Yeah was just about to say.. merge pdfs.. free websites online to do it

I thought it was going to be harder than it was, but my PDF software allowed me to open the first one then add the other 47. Being bank statements I wasn't going to use anything on-line.
I had a phone call a few hours after uploading my photo id, he said the the one next to my face were blurry, told then that was the best I could do, and referred him to a couple of months ago when I had to go to JCP when I changed banks that seems to do the trick.

I expect only to be asked about a couple of transactions, one is my gardener, the other is a cash withdrawal. The last one will be fun, as I'm going to tell them that was my escort, and she doesn't accept credit cards, I looking forward to their reply.

HillStreetBlues

Had a call today, all rather underwhelming, only asked about one transactions (guess there would be about 2,000 transactions in the 120 pages of bank statements) and this was "you were paid £750 by a Hill Street Blues, who is that?"  "That would be me"  I replied.
They did ask about my Paypal account balance and that was zero, not asked for any proof so far. call lasted about 5 minutes.
I await another call, but wouldn't be surprised if he simple gives up as to to work everything out on my accounts would I expect take days.

peteuk

HillStreetBlues said:

Had a call today, all rather underwhelming, only asked about one transactions (guess there would be about 2,000 transactions in the 120 pages of bank statements) and this was "you were paid £750 by a Hill Street Blues, who is that?"  "That would be me"  I replied.
They did ask about my Paypal account balance and that was zero, not asked for any proof so far. call lasted about 5 minutes.
I await another call, but wouldn't be surprised if he simple gives up as to to work everything out on my accounts would I expect take days.

Like my sons last year, we took days prep him for a phone call (he wont answer unless he knows the person ringing). The pre bumf call said it can take an hour.  I made sure i was available to support him.

Security check took longer than the questioning.  Who’s this that you paid X amount to?  Was the only question, my sister was the answer.

End of call. It was a joke.

HillStreetBlues

Your Universal Credit Claim Review is now complete.

Following our interview, and the information you provided, we can confirm there is no change to your Universal Credit.

Just received that message.
10th Mar asked to submit banks statements, 12th Mar submitted then, 14th Mar 10 min call and then closed 30 mins later.

I was never concerned about having one as my capital is always under £6k at the end of my AP, but lately it's been close £5,950 at the end of my last AP. My actual monies were far above that (income & CoL payments). My reviewer is either very very good and calculated everything correctly ( I need spreadsheets to keep track of everything in my 12 accounts) or was overwhelmed with it all.

kaMelo

You almost sound disappointed that you weren't challenged more. 🙂

HillStreetBlues

kaMelo said:

You almost sound disappointed that you weren't challenged more. 🙂

TBH I was.
I can understand them knowing my monies because of any capital deduction, but once shown under £6k then any payments they don't need to know. If they had asked to see credit card statements I would have refused.
I buy nearly everything on my credit cards, it's only a couple of bill via direct debits and the credit card payments. The only person (apart from me) I transfer money to in the gardener, and take cash a bit of cash out from time to time.
My first thought were to say the transfers of money was to my drug dealer and the cash went on hookers, but dropped the idea of the first one as I don't think my gardener would be please getting raided by the drug squad. But I was really looking forward to the reaction when asked about the cash, but never enquired about it..

I might be the only person who has a review that will be disappointed how easy it was. 

Spoonie_Turtle

Which PDF software do you use, that allowed to merge so easily?  The UC review has made its way to me (unannounced, yet I get an e-mail to tell me each time I get the journal message informing me I'm claiming ESA), and I have one programme I use but yours sounds like it might be simpler.

EDIT: I found PDF Gear and it even works on Android, so all sorted.

HillStreetBlues

 PDF Gear is what I use, not tried it on Android thou.

born_again

Word will also output in PDF 👍