WPP1 Question

Ross Millaney

Hello,

Maybe someone is more familiar with this than I?

I'm currently doing a WPP1 scheme - have been receiving the full 188 etc up until this week where I was means adjusted to 120 odd. Is this a mistake on their part?

I'm not sure why this has occured, and no explanation has been given. I need to take time off work next week to go to the local office to ask them, so it would be very helpful if I can find out any information beforehand.

Many thanks

Lugh Ildanach

Ross Millaney wrote: »

Hello,

Maybe someone is more familiar with this than I?

I'm currently doing a WPP1 scheme - have been receiving the full 188 etc up until this week where I was means adjusted to 120 odd. Is this a mistake on their part?

I'm not sure why this has occured, and no explanation has been given. I need to take time off work next week to go to the local office to ask them, so it would be very helpful if I can find out any information beforehand.

Many thanks

If there has been no other change in your circumstances, or unless your previous claim had been miscalculated and this is just coming to light, then your payment should have stayed the same.

Ross Millaney

Thanks for the reply.

That's what I thought. and I've no change in circumstances.

Is the only way to fix this: take day off work, to go to the welfare office, make an appointment, come in another day for that appointment?

They don't answer the phone and no email service, such an inept system.

cee_jay

Have you been receiving Jobseekers benefit or allowance?
How much exactly did you get this week? Was it 125.40? If so that is payment for 4 days. If you have been on Jobseekers benefit aforementioned around a year or so it could mean that is coming to an end and you will now be means tested for Jobseekers allowance.

Ross Millaney

On jobseekers allowance,

was receiving 188 - cheque i received this week was 12X...could the four day thing be due to the St patricks day holiday?

although the cheque says the deduction was due to a means adjustment.

thanks.

mrsbyrne

ross, cee-jay is pointing out that if the amount is exactly 125.40EU then it is a straightforward adjustment which would be a one-off.

Lugh Ildanach

They should have told you what the reason for the adjustment was, but unfortunately they rarely do. You could phone your local office to find out, and complain that you didn't get the adjusted means assessment in writing, although most offices are hard to get through to, so a trip down to the office may be the only thing to do.

If you have been deducted for one day, then you would want to know why, if you're fully unemployed, there shouldn't have been any such deduction.