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blackberry444I finally got myself together enough to telephone the DLA people asking about my missing DLA. They said they had already transferred responsibility for these payments to the State Pension people. This explains the extra payment I received from them last week. However, it was one week short of what I was owed.
So I rang the Pensions People and it turns out that they had paid me a week's DLA along with my State Pension in December and I hadn't even noticed!
It's really infuriating when you gear yourself up for an argument with Officialdom and they turn out to be in the right after all, and it just adds insult to injury when they answer the phone almost immediately and are courteous, helpful and jolly! What is the Welfare State coming to? I remember an uncle (who I shan't name to protect the guilty), who was a post office cashier in a big main post office, and who really enjoyed pulling down his "Not available" blind at the very second he was able to do so, never mind the poor hooter who had been queueing for 15 minutes and had finally got to the head of the queue.
I'm very fond of this uncle, but he was also the one who wrote to the Local Authority complaining about a tree which kept shedding leaves, like once a year, which blew into his garden, and succeeded in having it cut down. It was the only tree for miles!
So I rang the Pensions People and it turns out that they had paid me a week's DLA along with my State Pension in December and I hadn't even noticed!
It's really infuriating when you gear yourself up for an argument with Officialdom and they turn out to be in the right after all, and it just adds insult to injury when they answer the phone almost immediately and are courteous, helpful and jolly! What is the Welfare State coming to? I remember an uncle (who I shan't name to protect the guilty), who was a post office cashier in a big main post office, and who really enjoyed pulling down his "Not available" blind at the very second he was able to do so, never mind the poor hooter who had been queueing for 15 minutes and had finally got to the head of the queue.
I'm very fond of this uncle, but he was also the one who wrote to the Local Authority complaining about a tree which kept shedding leaves, like once a year, which blew into his garden, and succeeded in having it cut down. It was the only tree for miles!
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Date: 2009-01-13 06:52 pm (UTC)Never have geared myself up to argue with officialdom.They seem to have got everything right when it comes to me and mine.
Though I maybe having a quiet word with the Teachers Pensions people to get some advice soon.
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Date: 2009-01-18 01:31 pm (UTC)Don't see why not. He proudly told me these things himself and I can't see him reading my blog, even if he knew what my LJ name was. Has he even got a PC?
As for his daughter, I doubt very much whether she reads this, even if she remembers it's here and I'm sure she'd be the first to agree.