Fingal CoCo is leaving me short

Joseph

Hi all

Just got a PDF file sent to me from Fingal CoCo detailing my third and last payment for this year. I worked it out and they are leaving me 170 euro short overall - whats the story here, should I contact them and ask them whats going on ?

Cheers

mactheknife19

do you really expect an answer.
- whats going on here.........ehh maybe ask them
- should I contact them and ask them whats going on.......ehh, no of course not, just go on the internet and ask people who can't help you. Let FCC have your 170

Is this what our taxes pay to churn out of collage

Joseph

mactheknife19 wrote: »

do you really expect an answer.
- whats going on here.........ehh maybe ask them
- should I contact them and ask them whats going on.......ehh, no of course not, just go on the internet and ask people who can't help you. Let FCC have your 170

Is this what our taxes pay to churn out of collage

Well, considering you can't even spell college correctly I wouldn't be making smart-ass comments.

mactheknife19

well you keep the faith that you brilliant spelling skills will get you through your life when you get out of college......just go and get an adult to ring FCC for you, sounds like you can't do anything for youself

RoyalMarine

Don't continue down this line of conversation..

InTouch

My suggestion:

Check if the overall reduction was applied, as in the budget the grants were under a review. Could this be the case here?

Also, they might have made a mistake. So look into that.

Do your best not to be on the defensive with them either, they are , after all, just trying to do their jobs to get money to put food on their tables, while trying to help you put food on yours.

If you get no joy there with either situation, it's 170 euro, you got other money and college is coming to a close soon so jobs can hopefully be found.

There's also the emergency funding you can avail of if you are left totally short and qualify for further assistance.

Best wishes

Lash_Alert

InTouch wrote: »

My suggestion:

Check if the overall reduction was applied, as in the budget the grants were under a review. Could this be the case here?

Also, they might have made a mistake. So look into that.

Do your best not to be on the defensive with them either, they are , after all, just trying to do their jobs to get money to put food on their tables, while trying to help you put food on yours.

If you get no joy there with either situation, it's 170 euro, you got other money and college is coming to a close soon so jobs can hopefully be found.

There's also the emergency funding you can avail of if you are left totally short and qualify for further assistance.

Best wishes

Dont listen to this poster. 170 might not be much to them, but it is to most people.

Secondly, these ppl are paid to do their jobs, and there job is the get the grant right, if they got it wrong,you tell them. Whats this food on their tables jazz about? Its not as if your asking them for money out of their pocket? Their job is to channel money from the state, to the student.

Point of the story, dont give up on it

InTouch

Lash_Alert wrote: »

Dont listen to this poster. 170 might not be much to them, but it is to most people.

Secondly, these ppl are paid to do their jobs, and there job is the get the grant right, if they got it wrong,you tell them. Whats this food on their tables jazz about? Its not as if your asking them for money out of their pocket? Their job is to channel money from the state, to the student.

Point of the story, dont give up on it

To lash_alert

I did not tell him to give up on it. I told him to pursue both options and (implied) if they should end up not working out for him, for example if the reduction really was applied and he lost out as a result, that he could go for emergency funding as the majority of higher education establishments have an emergency fund for this type of thing. So that's worth looking into.

If you had read my post about the people who work in the grants offices, I was simply asking the OPto try see the other side of the coin and consider that they probably did not intentionally cause this discrepancy. Above all I highlighted that he/she should not go contacting the offices on the defensive.

Before you go advising someone not to consider the advice someone else is offering them, at least show some form of etiquette for this forum and refrain from "txt spk".

Lash_Alert

InTouch wrote: »

To lash_alert

I did not tell him to give up on it. I told him to pursue both options and (implied) if they should end up not working out for him, for example if the reduction really was applied and he lost out as a result, that he could go for emergency funding as the majority of higher education establishments have an emergency fund for this type of thing. So that's worth looking into.

If you had read my post about the people who work in the grants offices, I was simply asking the OPto try see the other side of the coin and consider that they probably did not intentionally cause this discrepancy. Above all I highlighted that he/she should not go contacting the offices on the defensive.

Before you go advising someone not to consider the advice someone else is offering them, at least show some form of etiquette for this forum and refrain from "txt spk".

You might not have said the words, give up, but he pretty much did. You were placing more emphasis on him accepting the reduction in the grant, whether its correct or not, and were telling him to seek emergency funding.....If the man is entitled to money, this should not be an option, its his entitlment and he should not give up on it easy.

You were merely just asking him to look at the other side of the coin? you painted a litttle sob story about how they have kids to feed bla bla bla. Get a grip, these workers turn up at 9 in the morning(the earliest), are finished at 5(the latest), get nice breaks and good pay, so between these hours they are expected to perform to the best of their ability. Of course throughout this time mistakes will be made, so the least that can be expected is that when a mistake is made, it is corrected asap without a fuss. But my previous experience with Fingal has shown to me that this will not be the case.

Ps your last point is the sign of a real prat, and pretty much just ruined any stance you had. Im sorry if my spelling or whatever bothered you...deeply...

RoyalMarine

any more replies that do not benefit the OP or help to answer his question will result in moderator action.

Enough of this petty arguing.

Annasopra

Are you sure they didnt just take the budget reductions into account?

Joseph

Johnnymcg wrote: »

Are you sure they didnt just take the budget reductions into account?

Rang them this morning, helpful lady on the phone - your right it was the budget changes. The payment I received before the new year didn't have it, but the remaining two payments did. Apparently she was getting a few queries about it