What a month

[scotty73]

Well guys i been quiet for a reason, i got a nice payout from the dwp just before christmas around £1500 i made sure we had a holiday out of it 4 nights in an appartment in Saundersfoot for the new year.

Didn't enjoy much of it though i got a dwp letter the day after i booked it saying....hahaha you only get payed this for 12 months and it's back dated to 28th Feb 2012... so i think after 17 months or so of worry I'm still screwed, i have over a grand in me bank and scared to spend it and It's made me lose so much sleep i feel like a zombie...... Not ate a full meal since christmas day. Not hard to see why people kill themselves over this crap.

f*cking tossers.

[Welly]

Sorry to hear this, I thought you've been quiet.

I'm sorry but I don't understand what they're saying to you? I understood you get benefits, but should be on more, so got the 'catch up' payment in compensation of the difference - you should then be on the 'higher' regular payment from then on?

[scotty73]

Sorry to hear this, I thought you've been quiet.

I'm sorry but I don't understand what they're saying to you? I understood you get benefits, but should be on more, so got the 'catch up' payment in compensation of the difference - you should then be on the 'higher' regular payment from then on?

Yeah they've put me on the higher rate but it seems from what i read that it's from 28th feb 2012 and not when i won the tribunal in November.... i could be wrong but i been in no fit state to speek to the twats tbh... I aint even drove the 406 since christmas eve.

[DaiRees]

I don't really get it either, are they saying that you can have the higher rate for 12 months but backdated to last February, so come next month you'll be back to square 1?

[scotty73]

I don't really get it either, are they saying that you can have the higher rate for 12 months but backdated to last February, so come next month you'll be back to square 1?

You actually got it bud.

[DaiRees]

So don't they owe you 10.5 months of back payments in that case?

[trem1]

So don't they owe you 10.5 months of back payments in that case?

the £1500 in the first post perhaps

[scotty73]

So don't they owe you 10.5 months of back payments in that case?

They paid that before crimbo just over £1500..... For once I'm loaded but scared to fuckityfuck to touch it... If you saw me now Dai you'd drop me off in Prince Charles hospital because i look like death ..... Bollocks to them all I'm getting better you sly bastards.

[DaiRees]

Eh? so all this sh*t you've been through and thousands of pounds worth of the bureaucratic fuckwits' time and all for a little less than £150 a month?? Sorry I have no idea about this stuff but I thought the dole was more than that??

[scotty73]

Eh? so all this sh*t you've been through and thousands of pounds worth of the bureaucratic fuckwits' time and all for a little less than £150 a month?? Sorry I have no idea about this stuff but I thought the dole was more than that??

I see where your coming and excuse my stupidneness, They put me on whats called assesment rate from Feb 28th which is £71 per week so when i won Yeah right the tribunal i was owed the difference back which was £108 per week at the time.... but the law says it can only be claimed for 12 months and if your partner works your f*cked.

It's all to do with contributions based/income based and all that crap..... Basically i live off my wife and lose over 400 a month... f*ck em.

[steve_earwig]

Oh ffs Sorry to read this, I thought you were sorted but it looks like you're falling foul of HM government's plan to make everyone pennyless whilst awarding themselves a big fat payrise for completely shafting the country

So this isn't means tested? They make no distinction if your partner is on minimum wage or on 100k?

[lozz]

Ithink you need to ring them mate,
or atleast pop into a local C.A.B.

ithink you are just confused about how theyve Worded the letter perhaps,

They only back pay -upto 12mths, so what they might mean is, We owe you more than this but we are only backdating for 12mths. ? (perhaps)

[scotty73]

Well the crap month ended in hospital, last Tuesday i was starting to feel a bit better then in the night i started feeling bloated again this continued until i was on the toilet 7am Wednesday morning felt a little sick and suddenly vomited about 200ml of fresh blood now i have a history of internal bleeding so checked the color of my stool straight away.
Sure enough it was black (a sign of internal bleeding) so i kept an eye on it until noon when i gave in and phoned an ambulance (very clever when there's 8 inches of un touched snow in my street) luckily he turned up in a new landrover and took me straight to hospital.

f*cked about doing the normal checks in A&E and made me comfy ish for the night then Wednesday morning out of nowhere i was just lying in bed and had a seizure it was so bad the crash team were called and i was taken to resus where all my clothes were cut off so i could be revived... Not sure what really happened but my wife and mam thought i was dead....And dunno if i got the paddles because nobody wanted to go into that much detail.

Before this i had said i liked a drink and while I'm here can you put me on a detox programme to help because I'm f*cked off with drinking anyway, their reply was once we find you a bed on the ward it will all start.... Well too f*cking late a little diazipam would had avoided that seizure.

I spent the next few days having horrible dreams and illucinating like nobody's buisnes i even accused the nurses of conspiring against me and tampering with my drip to the point that i made them let me watch them make the solution up. I even text my wife at 6am Sunday morning asking her to pick me up as they've gave me the day off.

I can laugh now and so could the nurses yesterday when we were talking about it before i got discharged but for a while there it was some touch n go scary sh*t that i never want to go through again.

[lozz]

Sorry to hear that scotty,

take some rest and take it easy for a while,

Youve had a warning sighn there, Now its time to act on it or atleast you shouid be doing.
think of you wife kids and your family, thats a good enough reason to leave the bottle alone aint it?


been there mate, iwont go in to detail, but iwent through years of sh*t with alchol,

[DaiRees]

Bloody hell dude, that's rather scary!! How ya feeling now?

Take better care of yourself mun!!