WFP waiting times

Tinkerbell4484 wrote: »

I’ve never given them anything other then payslips. When my husband started I gave them 2 payslips, and then for renewal in November I also gave 2 payslips, as his p60 wasn’t available. They never asked for anything else, just worked the figures from payslip

I'd be worried about delaying it as it says on the checklist to include a P60 and the most recent payslip

Email received today said they are currently working on the last week of November so probably about four more weeks for my claim

Crunchymomma wrote: »

Any new updates?? The wait time for this is ridiculous!

Our application is in over a week and we haven't even received confirmation that they've gotten it yet. I'm guessing from the posts about them working on Novembers backlog that they're into December's by now. Things looking rather bleak here if we're in for an 8 week wait just to be acknowledged

Crunchymomma wrote: »

The date they say they received mine was about three weeks after if sent in and it took at least two weeks more for the letter saying that to reach me

In fairness, it wasn’t opened the day it arrived .

Crunchymomma wrote: »

I appreciate that but I do think the amount of time it all takes is incredibly long. They should be better staffed to handle the amount of applications they receive.

Wait times have been longer than expected for a while now so I would have thought that maybe some more tcos would be taken on to assist with the backlog

I rang Carers Allowance one day and hung on for 25 minutes. By the time someone answered I’d forgotten what I wanted. The person who answered the phone told me that there were 5 people assigned to Carers that day.
Staff have been taken away from ordinary pensions to deal with the new pension review section.
The current minister has no interest whatsoever and is hopeless. The Taoiseach is not interested in SW at all.

Applies Jan 11th 2019 and paid today 08/02/2019 so 4 weeks which is super fast was not expecting it.

Crunchymomma wrote: »

Was yours a new application or a renewal??

Would like to know this too - we applied on the 28th of January!

ShaShaBear wrote: »

Would like to know this too - we applied on the 28th of January!

New Application was not expecting it until April!

lisa_celtic wrote: »

Brand new application, money in bank this morning, back dated and i havnt even got a letter I qualify yet, I rang them up and they confirmed everything on the phone that the payment is from them.

Happy days!

Received mine last week.


Does it get paid with your wages or separately into the bank,
Just curious.

splinter65 wrote: »

Into the bank or the PO whichever option you picked on the application form.

Thanks
It's the bank so

Crunchymomma wrote: »

I think yours was sent off around the same time as mine. Hopefully the woman today was wrong and mine might be faster than two or three weeks more

Hopefully you get sorted soon

ShaShaBear wrote: »

Got a letter in the post today to say that our application has been received (we posted it off on the 28th of January) and that there is "some delay" in processing applications. It also said there was no need to contact them, that they would be in touch with a result or if further information was required. Hopefully not too much longer now!

Got the same letter today, we posted our application on the 31st January. Hopefully it’s not too long a wait now.

Crunchymomma wrote: »

Received letter today stating that my application was approved from 14/2/19. It was received into the wfp section on 21/12.

So when do you think it will be back dated from?

It’s so frustrating
My application was received by them on December 10th
New application
I rang 2 weeks ago and was told it was with deciding officer
I rang again today and it’s STILL with deciding officer
It’s getting annoying now
How long does it take to make a decision