Aziz wrote:You best contact the DWP for a definitive answer - failure to do so might be construed as fraud.
Axtol wrote:Hey, any of you guys know about Universal Credit? My UC got paid near the end of every month and I got a job which was due to start halfway through one of those months, so I assumed I'd get about 50% of my UC for half the month, and nothing for the other half as I'd get paid for that from wages. But my payment came in and I got the entire monthly amount. Was I overpaid or is this a thing now?
Trapper John wrote:Axtol wrote:Hey, any of you guys know about Universal Credit? My UC got paid near the end of every month and I got a job which was due to start halfway through one of those months, so I assumed I'd get about 50% of my UC for half the month, and nothing for the other half as I'd get paid for that from wages. But my payment came in and I got the entire monthly amount. Was I overpaid or is this a thing now?
Just keep the money for fuck sake ...... don't take any notice of Aziz ..... they'll only take it back off you and give it to an immigrant anyway.
Depending how long you been out of work (I think it's six months) - I'm pretty sure they give you the whole amount anyway to give you a head start.
PS. If you are an immigrant - give it back you thieving scummy leech.
Axtol wrote:Aziz wrote:You best contact the DWP for a definitive answer - failure to do so might be construed as fraud.
Yeah will do that. I spent a bit of the money before wondering if it could be a mistake, so I probably couldn't pay it all back like right now if they asked for it on the spot. I assume they don't demand it back all at once, or they let you pay it back in increments? It was their mistake, and I have kept proof that I informed them when I was starting my job.
Axtol wrote:Trapper John wrote:Axtol wrote:Hey, any of you guys know about Universal Credit? My UC got paid near the end of every month and I got a job which was due to start halfway through one of those months, so I assumed I'd get about 50% of my UC for half the month, and nothing for the other half as I'd get paid for that from wages. But my payment came in and I got the entire monthly amount. Was I overpaid or is this a thing now?
Just keep the money for fuck sake ...... don't take any notice of Aziz ..... they'll only take it back off you and give it to an immigrant anyway.
Depending how long you been out of work (I think it's six months) - I'm pretty sure they give you the whole amount anyway to give you a head start.
PS. If you are an immigrant - give it back you thieving scummy leech.
Lol. I've been out of work since November but I only started claiming in December when my saved up wages ran out. Don't get me wrong I'm not criticizing the fact that I've been given a load more than I thought I'd get but the more I think about the more I think maybe there has been a mistake. Do you have any source for the "giving you a head start". When I was on jobseekers last year they said I'd get paid up until the date I started work and I assumed that would be the same on Universal Credit. And the day I started work would be about halfway through the claim month, so I thought I'd get about 50% of my usual UC amount.
Axtol wrote:Trapper John wrote:Axtol wrote:Hey, any of you guys know about Universal Credit? My UC got paid near the end of every month and I got a job which was due to start halfway through one of those months, so I assumed I'd get about 50% of my UC for half the month, and nothing for the other half as I'd get paid for that from wages. But my payment came in and I got the entire monthly amount. Was I overpaid or is this a thing now?
Just keep the money for fuck sake ...... don't take any notice of Aziz ..... they'll only take it back off you and give it to an immigrant anyway.
Depending how long you been out of work (I think it's six months) - I'm pretty sure they give you the whole amount anyway to give you a head start.
PS. If you are an immigrant - give it back you thieving scummy leech.
Lol. I've been out of work since November but I only started claiming in December when my saved up wages ran out. Don't get me wrong I'm not criticizing the fact that I've been given a load more than I thought I'd get but the more I think about the more I think maybe there has been a mistake. Do you have any source for the "giving you a head start". When I was on jobseekers last year they said I'd get paid up until the date I started work and I assumed that would be the same on Universal Credit. And the day I started work would be about halfway through the claim month, so I thought I'd get about 50% of my usual UC amount.
Trapper John wrote:Axtol wrote:Trapper John wrote:Axtol wrote:Hey, any of you guys know about Universal Credit? My UC got paid near the end of every month and I got a job which was due to start halfway through one of those months, so I assumed I'd get about 50% of my UC for half the month, and nothing for the other half as I'd get paid for that from wages. But my payment came in and I got the entire monthly amount. Was I overpaid or is this a thing now?
Just keep the money for fuck sake ...... don't take any notice of Aziz ..... they'll only take it back off you and give it to an immigrant anyway.
Depending how long you been out of work (I think it's six months) - I'm pretty sure they give you the whole amount anyway to give you a head start.
PS. If you are an immigrant - give it back you thieving scummy leech.
Lol. I've been out of work since November but I only started claiming in December when my saved up wages ran out. Don't get me wrong I'm not criticizing the fact that I've been given a load more than I thought I'd get but the more I think about the more I think maybe there has been a mistake. Do you have any source for the "giving you a head start". When I was on jobseekers last year they said I'd get paid up until the date I started work and I assumed that would be the same on Universal Credit. And the day I started work would be about halfway through the claim month, so I thought I'd get about 50% of my usual UC amount.
Yeah the source is me, about 8 years ago I had an altercation with a company I worked for and got the heave ho! ..... so I signed on for a while as I took them to a tribunal. As I'd never been out of work my entire life, I thought here's my chance for some pay-back .... I won the case and then got a job almost instantly ..... I remember the woman at the job centre saying oh dear, another two weeks and you'd have got all your benefits paid for another month ...... come to think of it, I think it's three months, not six.
Just keep schtum ...... if there is anything amiss and they catch up with you, say you didn't know and you'll pay them back at £10 a month ...... it's their mistake so they have to accept that......as long as you pay back something, even £1 a month, they can't do anything about it.
I got a tax rebate from inland revenue once for £900 or so about 20 years ago. The following week I got another for exactly the same amount, then a week later another exactly the same.....it was like Christmas every week ..... I kept the money unspent, a few months later I started spending it ..... never heard a thing from them to this day.
Maddog wrote:It's almost like government workers throw money around like someone else earned it.
Aziz wrote:Maddog wrote:It's almost like government workers throw money around like someone else earned it.
Almost but not quite - the benefit which is the subject of this thread is administered by a Capita plc, a private leech.
Maddog wrote:Aziz wrote:Maddog wrote:It's almost like government workers throw money around like someone else earned it.
Almost but not quite - the benefit which is the subject of this thread is administered by a Capita plc, a private leech.
Who gave the money to Capita and who should make sure Capita is competent?
You seem to miss the big picture. Confiscated funds will be squandered by the government directly, or by those the government hires to squander the money.
Aziz wrote:Maddog wrote:Aziz wrote:Maddog wrote:It's almost like government workers throw money around like someone else earned it.
Almost but not quite - the benefit which is the subject of this thread is administered by a Capita plc, a private leech.
Who gave the money to Capita and who should make sure Capita is competent?
You seem to miss the big picture. Confiscated funds will be squandered by the government directly, or by those the government hires to squander the money.
This thread is about the mishandling of public funds (a possible overpayment in this case) - this instance of mishandling was by Capita plc - no-one authorised Capita to mishandle or squander anything, moreover Capita is not staffed "government workers" who "throw money around".
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