Child Benefit

beverlyj

My personal information was one of 25 million lost by the government. I have been informed that I can claim compensation via the following website www.thismoney.co.uk/disc-claim
When I have been on the website it appears that I have to pay a fee of around £5.99 in order to claim.

Why do I have to pay in order to claim for something that isn't my fault?

immoral_angeluk

Who contacted you?

Boppy_2

I think it'll be a scam, sorry!y information was lost too but i have never receieved anything about compensation.

astonsmummy

What are they compensating you for? you havent lost any money, deffo i scam i think.
Just read it and apparently you can put in a claim, the company just provides a pack to help you do it, if you really wanted to claim compensation from the already overstreatched government, i'm sure you could do it without paying someone else for the info, i'm sure you could find it free online.

Marker_2

Yes mine wa slost too, majority was, and I havent received anything, If its not a scam I will want to know why I havent received a letter.

Best advise would be to ring Child benefit yourself. If this is indeed a scam more people need to be made aware of it.

DaisyFlower

Compensation is supposed to compensate you for a financial loss - what exactly have you lost to back up your claim??

beverlyj

Sorry if I have misled you all. I've just realised that the I got the information in the financial section of the Mail on Sunday newspaper.

Once again,
Sorry!

emsywoo123

Are we sure that this was not a spam thread?

beverlyj

Being new to this sort of thing I'm not too sure what you are implying.
I found the newspaper cutting again after posting my question yesterday.

I may be gullible but since it was published in the Mail on Sunday I took it to be credible.

darcyvuqua

what have they lost well the same as myself all my personnal details and banking details regardless that nothing has gone missing money wise its not right that they just loss this info!!! so you can tell daisyflowers details were not lost or you would see where the op was coming from!!!!!!!!!

Mips

darcyvuqua wrote: »

what have they lost well the same as myself all my personnal details and banking details regardless that nothing has gone missing money wise its not right that they just loss this info!!! so you can tell daisyflowers details were not lost or you would see where the op was coming from!!!!!!!!!

I got a letter saying my details were lost.. but that was from the Tax Credits!