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Need copy of Income Support Entitlement Letter
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tinacee1
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I have lost my benefit entitlement letter for the period of 6th April 2012 to 31st March 2013. I need to send this to British Gas to enable me to receive the Warm home Discount Grant which they need to receive by 22nd March. Would I be able to go to my local Work and Pensions office and get another copy of this. Any advice would be appreciated as I don't have a lot of time to sort this out before the deadline. Many thanks in advance.
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just phone them up and they will send you a duplicate letter.credit card bill. £0.00
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paulwellerfan wrote: »just phone them up and they will send you a duplicate letter.
Cutting it fine
Has someone got a fax machine that you could use or could you ask them to email a copy which you could print off?0 -
you would have to phone up and make an appointment at the Jobcentre, the contact center staff will then send the section a memo, who will type you a letter of entitlement and then fax one to you at the Jobcentre
they cant send emails, or fax unless it a Jobcentre or secure number
letters of entitlement go out second class post0 -
mikey_bach wrote: »you would have to phone up and make an appointment at the Jobcentre, the contact center staff will then send the section a memo, who will type you a letter of entitlement and then fax one to you at the Jobcentre
they cant send emails, or fax unless it a Jobcentre or secure number
letters of entitlement go out second class post
Actually, they can fax, so long as they previously had the number (i.e it's on your application form). It's just as secure as Royal Mail, technically more secure...
That said, they do prefer to fax to the Job Centre instead.Be Warned: Any decision made by ATOS should be treated with the contempt and suspicion in rightly deserves. If in any doubt, make sure to appeal any and all decisions by ATOS. Do not take their word for it, do not give them an inch of trust.
When judging if ATOS were fit for work, it looks like they self-assessed. //Rant-Disclaimer End.0 -
What will happen is,
You do not always need an appointment at the Jobcentre,
You phone the contact centre and ask that they fax the letter to the local Jobcentre - if they refuse for whatever reason, you could hang up and call again. Eventually you may speak to someone who is happy to fax it to a local jobcentre. However, there may be a perfectly good reason why it cannot be faxed, if this reason is repeated on subsequent calls you know you you are being given the correct advice. ..............
Because the process may involve calling more than once and not least because the letter will be faxed to your jobcentre you might aswell use the jobcentre phones to make the calls because they are free.
Ravenshade,
Whilst what you say makes sense, faxing to the customer's phone that is given on the application form or even subsequently updated. You would not find a staff member who would agree with you. If you wanted to insist on this you would either need to quote the relevant section of DWP guidance which confirms your belief or write a letter to DWP or do a Freedom of Information request to get the answer in writing from the DWP and to be told what to say to a member of staff (i.e. what guidance reference to quote) who is refusing to do this for you. For one thing, the contact centre staff cannot see your application form, they only have computer records.0 -
In our office to get a letter entitlement sent to the jobcentre the customer has to make an appointment, they just cant walk in and request one.They have to be there when we fax it across.
We are not allowed to fax customers information to any number for obvious reasons, data protection etc.
We can of fax to solicitors to confirm entitlement or employers for pay details
But we are strict on such things and other offices may be different
but I hope not.
We don't email customers but they can email in to a section box, and they can fax in things direct to us if after a call back we give them the section fax number
Things may change when Universal Credits come out0 -
We would never be allowed to fax out information to anywhere other than a jobcentre. We can fax employer to gather information.
We generally do not accept faxed documents unless the jobcentre has seen the original and faxed it to us as it is impossible to tell on the fax copy if the document has been altered at all.Debt free = December 2010...as of March 2006 it is now January 2010..... as of December 2008 it is now December 2009 :j hopefully sooner!!:jDEBT FREE:j January 2012, took longer but I got there, all by myself, through sheer hard work and pride!0 -
I eventually got in touch with the Income support Department,to request a copy of my income support entitlement letter to send to British Gas. I have been told it will be sent to me tonight at my home address. I hope it will be here before the schemes cut off date 22nd March.
Another hurdle to cross was trying to get through to the Income Support Department to get this information. It was a marathon trying to get the number for this and for getting to speak to and actual person at the department.
In the past I could ring my local Jobcentre on a local number (which I tried but not available now) and discovered that you have to ring an 0845 number - which cost me £6.30 from my mobile phone as I don't have a land line.
There used to be an 0800 number for queries about Income Support but they have removed it as well as all the local office numbers. It is scandalous really having to pay £6.30 for a phone call to request some information from a Government body. It took me a total of 50 mins to get to speak to someone to try and get the information that I needed.
Has anyone else found it a problem to just get through to someone at DWP ? Why have all the 0800 numbers gone?0
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