September 2009
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the constant calling.
8:45am
bank calling me about how i’ll be paying my loan back everymonth and again i could not give them an answer as i’m working with minus figures. i have to speak to payplan, ccs or the citizens advice bureau again - the bank has given me 7 days for one of these three to arrange a payment plan. i have been given a fax number to send in my suggestion of how much i can afford i...
the £300 discretionary advisor fund
you might not know this depending on how well your initial interview went in the job centre. If you were in professional job previous (it seems) you do have access to a £300 fund which is based on the discretion of the advisor that you see. this fund is basically money for your first ‘back to work’ job interview and you can get things that you will need to be able to do that...
getting a post office account.
So one of the suggestions i had from the job centre is to keep my income support seperate in another account so that other bills and direct debits do not eat up any funds that i get from the government. You have to request a personal invitation document from the local job centre which is a letter that you have to take to your local post office - then two weeks later you should receive a card...
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43p
So in true ‘government don’t let me down’ fashion they did. I was half expecting that the dole would go wrong this week. i’ve been paid nothing. not the first week they said i would. i have to do the chasing via various numbers to find out what the problem was which was a ‘failsafe’ so that it never oversent money. while i totally respect and understand...
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situations & unemployment go hand in hand
I’m going to use this little blog as a spouting off point from time to time, how i fixed things and how things are getting in my way - not just for an outlet for people who on the dole and do not want to be. today is one of those days.
Three things stopped me yesterday doing what i needed to do - and all of them involved money. I’m currently £24 overdrawn in my main bank account -...
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paying the minimum.
when you have no contract and no income coming in some phone calls can seem highly entertaining especially when your working with minus numbers - but on the flipside those doors for agreements that never existed before when you had money soon swing open. if i had some of these agreements now available to me when i have little money coming in would i be in the situation i’m in now? - i...
Not really dole related.. . but...
just having a moment of pacing up and down thinking about jobs and future and am annoyed that my general lack of business and accounting skills puts me in such depressing situations. lots of my web stuff accounts are closing or getting shut down because i cannot pay the bills. even my dropbox $10 i cannot afford right now. that’s pretty lame. I’m actually starting to believe that...
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. .. the paradox of being jobless and doing...
So the job i just did was for raising money for charity and as such i was not paid for my work - the expenses of the trip was covered by the company that was working with the brand. Today, i had to go and ‘sign’ on - the number one dread for me as mr doledestroying. i really hate it, it’s ‘soledestroying’ - the staff are always nice but it is like each...
I'm going to do the signing thing.
So, i’m back from a trip that was all funded by the organizer so i never got paid or received any money from it and today i’m back into the job centre to stare at a lady willing her to find me something to do in computers and to prove that i actually care about getting another job so the government can release £64 to me into my bank account - the one that will probably swallow up that...