money makes de vorld go round.
The DWP sent me back some reading matter concerning my claims. I'm all sorted for Income Support now, so that means I have little amount of money coming in, hurrah! But they've rejected my other claim, saying I had no National Insurance contributations or something... anyway, to cut a long story short, I was completely misguided in all the information they've given me over the past six months, and I'm going to contact Welfare Rights to see what they can sort out for me (*Fanfare for the Common Man* sounds in the distance.) This also means that I probably should have been getting Income Support since October, when I first applied, but they stopped that application and I just thought it was tied up with my Incapacity Benefit claim, but as I now realise, that's not quite the case. Am seriously pissed off.
But anyway, I have an interview with the benefits office which is linked into my Income Support stuff, so I'm going to interrogate this woman when I see her and see what comes of it. Luckily, I also have the second half of my assesment with Keith (the chronic fatigue specialist) this week as well, so hopefully he can give me some further info about benefits I may be entitled too. I just can't believe the amount of stress this has caused just because a bunch of idiots have lead me up the garden path with this. I'm only lucky I have parents who know a fair bit about the benefits system, so can help me work through it a bit (even though even they had no idea what was going on because of the ineptitude of the DWP)... but just imagine I was on my own doing this? I'd be well and truly fucked. My mum was telling me about people she sees that apply for Disability Living Allowance, apparently people claiming that have their claims immediately rejected, you always have to reapply, it's like a test to see how much you want/need it. Isn't that sick? Fucking government fucking with the benefits! This is what this is. [/rant]
But in all seriousness, hurrah that some money is coming in. I need to sort my bank account out, but once that's done, hopefully I can get started up on lovefilm.com again. I have a major list of films I want to rent out. ;) After I've paid off the new clothes, debts and other things... le sigh.
In happier news, we received a dowsing of snow yesterday. I took Gus for a walk along by the railway and managed to finish of the film in my camera with a few snaps of ramshackle outbuildings and interesting front gates of the houses that are around here, I've suddenly realised there are some rather fascinating ones around, so I'm going to turn them into a 'Things That I Look Out For' photographic subject. It's handy to have a hook like that to remind me to keep my eyes peeled... so often I can walk around in a trance. So, I shall get those developed when I head into town on Monday for this interview.
I finally got my yoga going again today, hurrah! Let's see how long it lasts this time.
But anyway, I have an interview with the benefits office which is linked into my Income Support stuff, so I'm going to interrogate this woman when I see her and see what comes of it. Luckily, I also have the second half of my assesment with Keith (the chronic fatigue specialist) this week as well, so hopefully he can give me some further info about benefits I may be entitled too. I just can't believe the amount of stress this has caused just because a bunch of idiots have lead me up the garden path with this. I'm only lucky I have parents who know a fair bit about the benefits system, so can help me work through it a bit (even though even they had no idea what was going on because of the ineptitude of the DWP)... but just imagine I was on my own doing this? I'd be well and truly fucked. My mum was telling me about people she sees that apply for Disability Living Allowance, apparently people claiming that have their claims immediately rejected, you always have to reapply, it's like a test to see how much you want/need it. Isn't that sick? Fucking government fucking with the benefits! This is what this is. [/rant]
But in all seriousness, hurrah that some money is coming in. I need to sort my bank account out, but once that's done, hopefully I can get started up on lovefilm.com again. I have a major list of films I want to rent out. ;) After I've paid off the new clothes, debts and other things... le sigh.
In happier news, we received a dowsing of snow yesterday. I took Gus for a walk along by the railway and managed to finish of the film in my camera with a few snaps of ramshackle outbuildings and interesting front gates of the houses that are around here, I've suddenly realised there are some rather fascinating ones around, so I'm going to turn them into a 'Things That I Look Out For' photographic subject. It's handy to have a hook like that to remind me to keep my eyes peeled... so often I can walk around in a trance. So, I shall get those developed when I head into town on Monday for this interview.
I finally got my yoga going again today, hurrah! Let's see how long it lasts this time.