Perhaps melodramatic (please no poor bashing or asking why we don't have savings as we are a student/ recent graduate, also just moved house) but...
Long story short- I'm a student though I pay half of rent, things for DC etc, DH works full time but has recently lost his job. He has since found another better paid job but isn't starting for a month.
Anyway, the night he lost his job we filled in the forms for Job Seekers, Housing Benefit etc realising that we would very quickly run out of money. Needs must, it's a safety net and all that.
DHdoes everything they ask, brings in all the evidence and attends all the meetings and workshops. Anyway, we wait and wait and eventually receive a letter asking for all the evidence that he brought in because the Job Centre didn't send it. DH schleps to the post box to post it. We wait again...they don't receive it. This time DH brings it into the Job Centre so they can send it again.
Later that day, a letter arrives from Housing Benefit- they don't have the evidence from the Job Centre. DH heads over to drop it to the council. They tell us it could be days (rent due tomorrow).
Today the Jobseekers claim finally went live and thus should be backdated. We finally relax, thinking we can do some food shopping and even pay our late council tax. No- it's hugely reduced because they've classed all of my student finance as income, though the vast majority goes straight to nursery for DC, though I did keep specifying that only £4000 pa could be classed as income.
Not only that but we weren't due anything for the first week of DH being unemployed ('waiting period') and now we won't receive anything from the time DH signs off until when he gets his wages after working a month because they 'don't do that anymore'. Four weeks with no money coming in and I have no idea how we will buy food or live. Even if Housing Benefit pull through, we will be well over £1000 overdrawn/ in debt.
That's it really. I just need to rant and vent
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MrsSquishy · 17/08/2016 18:02
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