Scams pulled by supermarkets

I have just come back from shopping and noticed a special offer on a cleaning product, the product was FLASH MULTI SURFACE CONCENTRATED CLEANER 400ml the original price was £2.05, but reduced to 96p.
There was two fragrances on the shelf CRISP LEMON and BLOSSOM & BREEZE I put the blossom & breeze into my basket and continued on round the corner where it was noticed that only the LEMON was 96p all the others were reduced to £1.17, 21p more and the original price for the other fragrances were marked at a full price of £2.49 (£1.17 reduced price).
I have known supermarkets reduce one product while at the same time increasing the same product because it is in a different container, or having the same product on sale at two different prices in the same store, how they do that when they use a bar-code is beyond me.
I wonder how many people just saw the 96p and thought they had the option of two fragrances when on closer inspection of the label it stated CRISP LEMON was the only fragrance on offer at 96p and all the others were 21p dearer. How many didn't even check the receipt after paying for the BLOSSOM & BREEZE fragrance, thinking they would be paying 96p but in fact paid £1.17.
Maybe this was a one off by an employee who just wanted to get the product on the shelf, but in my opinion it was a deliberate ploy to mislead the customer into thinking both the fragrances were on offer at 96p as the customer normally only sees the price not that it relates to just one fragrance.
I emailed the CEO of Morrison's to tell him exactly what I thought, lets see if he replies personally of sends it down the chain for one of his customer service staff to deal with.

Just over 2 years ago

Just over 2 years ago I picked an argument with the DWP, one they had no chance of winning.
They sent me an ESA50 (Employment And Support Allowance) form at the end of April 2013 but I had to hand I had a copy of the previous ESA72 which stated on page to that THEY WOULD CONTACT ME AGAIN ON OR AFTER a time in June, around the 20th, so I sent the ESA50 back blank along with a copy of the second page of the ESA72, and a letter of complaint, then 48 hours later I emailed the DWP with a letter of complaint and a copy of page 2 of the ESA72. About 2 weeks later received a letter from the DWP saying they had told ATOS to issue another ESA50, by the time it turned up I had all my answers written and all the supporting evidence prepared, I waited until they sent the reminder letter after 3 weeks to call them and say I needed more time, all delaying tactics as everything had been sitting ready to go for over two weeks, they gave another 14 days, taking the contact after over the date for returning the ESA50.

After I sent the ESA50 back I then got a letter off the DWP saying that they issued the ESA50 around 2 months before the date on the ESA72 so that the person would have an assessment on or about the date on the ESA72.
I did an email to the DWP saying that they were full of bullshit and I would go to court and page 2 of the ESA72 would be the only evidence I would produce. around the 30th July I got a ESA72 from the DWP saying they had placed me in WRAG, again, and page 2 said the same thing, WE WILL CONTACT YOU AGAIN ON OR AFTER 25/7/15 there was, of course the standard bullshit of they could contact sooner, so I sent another email to the DWP saying as the original ESA50 was received at the end of April please supply copy's of the evidence you had to contact me 2 months before the contact on or after date on the original ESA72 and I sent it as a subject access request, after 45 days I sent another email with the subject heading NOTICE OF INTENT TO PROSECUTE They replied to that within 4 days stating they could not find any evidence to send that would be necessary for me to be contacted sooner than the contact on or after date on the ESA72.
I intended to do a freedom of information request for a copy of the ESA72 in 2013 but totally forgot, when I did put in the request it was late 2014 and they had changed the ESA72 and removed the section about contacting ON OR AFTER, it is my opinion that after my threats to the DWP they shit a ton of bricks and reworded the ESA72 from April 2014. 

There are still signs on ESA85 reports that they are abusing their power and contacting some people early, and that is the ESA85 saying A RETURN TO WORK IN THE LONGER TERM IS NOT ADVISABLE, that normally means 2 years of ESA so even though an ESA72 doesn't state a contact date people on ESA could email the DWP and say that they have read the ESA85 and it advises THAT A RETURN TO WORK IN THE LONGER TERM IS NOT ADVISABLE so as according to their rules the LONGER TERM is usually 2 years you expect a reply of 2 years from the date on the ESA85 that the DWP decision maker has agreed with and you do not expect to be contacted until 2 years after the date on the report.

At the moment the DWP & MAXIMUS are in meltdown and assessment can be delayed by 12 months, or longer, I was looking forward to sending them another blank ESA50 and copy of the ESA 72 but my contact ON OR AFTER DATE has passed so I now leave it up to those with CONTACT ON OR AFTER DATES, which if I am right, could go into 2017, or at least the end of March 2016  to take what action they believe is right for them. 

The above story was told to me by another person, who said I could print it if I changed it to as if it was me that had gone through it so any DWP Muppet who thinks they can harass me by this been posted think again because it's not me personally who told this I am just the storyteller not the person who made the DWP and all the top Muppets shit bricks!   

 

The Budget 8/7/15

THE BUDGET, JULY 2015

“Taken together, all the welfare reforms I’ve announced will save £12 billion by 2019/20 and will be legislated for in the year ahead, starting in the ‘Welfare Reform and Work Bill’ that will be published tomorrow.”
SOCIAL HOUSING
Rents in social housing sector to be reduced by 1% a year for the next four years.
Social housing tenants who earn more than £40,000 in London or £30,000 outside london will be forced to pay the market rent for their home.
TAX CREDITS
Income threshold at which tax credits start to be withdrawn to be reduced from £6,420 to £3,850. The taper rate will be raised to 48%. Income rise disregard will be reduced from £5,000 to £2,500.
Support from tax credits and universal credit will be limited to two children. Families who have a third or subsequent child after 2017 will not receive additional payments for that child.
'Similar changes' to be made for housing benefit.
Tax credit spending will be returned to 2007/08 levels in real terms.
HOUSEHOLD BENEFITS CAP
The household benefit cap will be lowered from £26,000 nationally to £23,000 in London and £20,000 in the rest of the UK. The DWP’s very conservative estimate is that an additional 90,000 households will be hit and that an additional 40,000 children will be forced into poverty as a result. Many families are likely to face eviction.
SUPPORT FOR MORTGAGE INTEREST PAYMENTS
Support for mortgage interest payments changes from a benefit to a loan
WORKING AGE BENEFITS
Working age benefits to be frozen for 4 years. PIP, DLA and ESA support group excluded from freeze.
ESA
ESA Work-related activity group . For future claimants only, ESA WRAG will be paid at same rate as JSA.  Osborne says:
"No current claimants will be affected by this change"
BENEFIT CUTS
Osborne says:
“The welfare system should always support the elderly, the vulnerable and disabled people.”
“We will not tax or means-test disability benefits.”
“Those who can work will be expected to look for work and take it when it is offered.The best route out of poverty is work.”
“For those aged 18-21 we’re introducing a new youth obligation that says they must either earn or learn.”
“We’re also abolishing the automatic entitlement to housing benefit for 18-21 year olds. There will be exceptions made for vulnerable people and other hard cases.”
INHERITANCE TAX
No inheritance tax on the first £1 million.  Not something that will affect many of our members, but they will be paying for it from benefits cuts.
STUDENT MAINTENANCE GRANTS
Maintenance grants for students whose families are on low incomes will be scrapped from 2016/17 yearand replaced by loans.
EXTENT OF CUTS
Osborne says £17bn of savings will be announced today, out of £37bn needed. £12bn will come from benefits cuts and £5bn from tackling tax avoidance.
PRE-BUDGET SPECULATION
Benefits and Work will be keeping you posted about budget measures most likely to affect our members.
At the moment, there is speculation that:

• The £12 billion in cuts will be spread over three years instead of two. £8 billion will be cut by 2017/18 and a further £4 billion by 2018/19.
• The household benefit cap will be lowered from £26,000 nationally to £23,000 in London and £20,000 in the rest of the UK. The DWP’s very conservative estimate is that an additional 90,000 households will be hit and that an additional 40,000 children will be forced into poverty as a result. Many families are likely to face eviction.
• Tax credits for people in work will be cut, possibly by cutting the amount of tax credits paid to families with more than two children.
• Social housing tenants who earn more than £40,000 in London or £30,000 outside london will be forced to pay the market rent for their home.
• Tenants will be obliged to pay the first 10% of their housing benefit themselves.
• Maintenance grants for students whose families are on low incomes will be scrapped and replaced by loans.
• Personal independence payment (PIP) and disability living allowance (DLA) will be subject to income tax.
• The work-related activity component of employment and support allowance (ESA) will be abolished, meaning a cut of £29.05 a week for claimants in the work-related activity group.

A true Victorian budget by Osborne, benefits capped to £23,000, £20,000 outside London, ESA Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) dropped to JSA rate for new claimants from April 2016, student grants to be replaced by loans. Only 2 benefits will escape the freeze ESA (SG), DLA/PIP. 
So there you have it rents going up council tax up but your benefits frozen for 4 years as the freeze is likely to start from next year that will see the them up to the election they are going to lose, but not give people a rise for 4 years. But as the amount they say they give you states it's the least you can get by on, within 4 years people will be living in poverty, if not by next April. By 2020 those on JSA will be in poverty relying on food banks
Next April we see those who need support because they cannot work will get just JSA rates if they pass the assessment phase and are placed in WRAG, I personally have been told I should be in the support group but thought what's the point when the assessment phase of ESA meant the amount I got jumped to over £131 overnight then to nearly £160 a week when I got full ESA in 2010, the £5+ seemed just not worth it, in 5 years 5 months I have had just 2 Work Focused Interviews (WFI'S), I don't count the one I had on 27/7/12 that turned into a maternity benefits claim for my daughter, because the person I was supposed to see had a family emergency. 

Just in from Cameron

This has just come to my in-box from that parasite that likes to be known as the PM of the UK!

I'm determined not to waste a second in delivering our manifesto commitments.
So since the election, we have:

• Announced important measures to cut down on waste in the NHS, so that every penny goes on getting patients the best possible treatments
• Carried on backing businesses so they can keep creating jobs - with 2 million more people in work since 2010
• Continued to help people secure a home of their own, with over 100,000 families now helped onto the housing ladder through our Help to Buy scheme
• Introduced the Referendum
• Announced new plans to turn all failing schools into Academies and to make sure all children study key academic subjects, so they get the skills they need
• m Bill to Parliament to give everyone in Britain a say before the end of 2017
• Brought forward plans to help families who want to work hard and get on by giving 30 hours' free childcare to working parents of three- and four-year-olds

We will keep working through our plan to create more security and opportunity in our country - and, with your help, we can secure a brighter future for everyone in Britain.

The NHS spends too much on branded drugs when there are cheaper alternatives, they would rather spend 30p per tablet when you can get the same tablet for 1p . They are paying some company for the name on the box that a patient never sees. I was once in hospital and refused to hand over my medication, stating I was going to self medicate, so when I went to the bathroom a nurse went through my stuff and removed them.

Backing businesses is the Tory way of saying backing work scams where benefit claimants have to work for just their benefits for at least 30 hours a week, so if you divide £74.10 by 30 it's just £2.47 per hour, even less if you're on under 25 rates, it's only £1.93 per hour, even an apprentice earn £2.73 per hour so let's tell Cameron where to stick his head!

100,000 new home owners what happens when the interest rates go up and they are hit with hundreds of pounds per month extra in payments the government cannot keep interest rates as low as they are and keep people buying homes the bubble has to burst sooner or later, IMHO I think another 20/23 years and interest will rocket, and new home owners will find their home and need a place to live and the council will be swamped with homeless people, possibly riots against the organisations the people think are responsible for the crisis.

The referendum is just Cameron's last swan song before he comes out with a fixed result of staying in the EU then he will stay on until 2019 before he stands down to let Osborne take over a party that will be crucified in 2020, that's if he lasts that long. Give people their say on the EU before the end of 2017 not by the end of 2017. With the referendum Cameron could tell the population that it will be 31/12 2017 then he will still have kept his promise of a referendum in 2017

Failing schools are failing schools no matter what they are called be it a school, an academy, a college, or a university, it's just a failure under another name. It's either the teachers are not up to standard or the pupils just aren't interested in what the school wants to teach them, in short the pupils think the subject is not of interest, political correctness has already ruined sports in schools so why not take it further and ruin every other subject?

30 hours childcare may still mean parents can only work 20 hours a week as they may have to drop off the child get across town then put in a shift then travel back across town to pick up the children meaning parents cannot work full time but part time and any overtime would require that they pay for childcare

AND FINALLY
Creating more security really means more snooping on the emails you send, things you post on-line, your text messages, your phone calls, in short they are going to make every one a PERSON of INTEREST, the machine has been created and now your only a number  

SMART METERS AND BT SPORTS

So everyone is supposed to have a smart meter by 2020, or the end of, for nearly a year now I have been waiting to be informed that they can provide me with a smart meter, well last week I got an email saying I could upgrade to one.
The thing is that although the GAS METER is outside the ELECTRIC METER is inside in a cabinet behind 2 sliding doors and it says that if access is restricted to call them. I am not going to call them, instead I am not going to bother I will continue to send in meter readings as and when,  I don't mind doing this even though others I know, my mother been one, saying I should have it installed. But to be honest I got my utility bills down to less than £10 a week for both, and I intend to get them down more.
The utility company will have to knock on my door whenever they decide to do them as they are going to get no help from me. I am fully prepared to submit readings to them every few months and continue to do so, my eyes maybe getting a bit old but I can still send them the readings on the phone app.

Now BT SPORTS they have just informed me that unless I renew for 18 months they will charge me £5 a month for their sports channels. And as they have got the Euro stuff as well that leaves BT, along with sky holding just about all the sports rights for football in the UK, but as I have said regardless of been a customer of theirs if they start to charge for watching they can whistle I will move Broadband provider, even if I have some months left on my yearly subscription to the line rental (12 months for the price of 10) I will even buy the son a SMART TV and cancel the TV license. They won't get through the door if they turn up, I subscribe to NETFLIX but will subscribe to other services as well to get the best of all.
I did the 18month renewal but if they ever want payment for sports then it either goes or I change my provider.

MAXIMUS in Austrailia

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/02/23/4183437.htm

If you ever thought Maximus would be any different than the current corrupt lot, think again. They are corrupt in America and Australia. So why should they be different in the UK? The answer is they aren't, they are the same ex ATOS employees, the same LIMA software.

Just like the UK, Australia has areas that were vibrant 50 years ago, just as they was areas in the UK in the 1900's. In Australia Maximus use the name MAX employment solutions, but they are anything but an employment solution.
They are corrupt using any tactic they can think of to say a person has a job or should be sanctioned even just the person not handing over the sheet or the adviser not been there.
Why don't they write out a contract for the adviser to sign saying

1. Any errors notified to you and not corrected the company promise to pay me $50 for each error on each occasion
2. Any forging of a signature, copy and pasting included, the company promise to pay me $1000 for each occurrence 
3. In every case of me providing a signature a duplicate will be provided for me to sign and take with me as evidence, if another form has to be requested the company will pay me $100
4.  The claimant has the right to fully read any paperwork they are asked to sign and refuse to sign anything they do not agree with, without any loss or penalty.
5. Anything signed, and later found that the company in order to obtain a signature the company agrees to pay the claimant $10,000
6. In no circumstances will I (the claimant) sign anything to receive something that is offered to me as free.
7.  I [NAME] act as a witness to agreeing these terms with [CLAIMANTS NAME] and I been the manager [MANAGERS NAME] agree to the terms and conditions in the above document, on behalf of [Company] all payment to be made within 7 days or they increase by 50% of the original amount.

Take 3 copy's so the manager and the adviser can be given one and one can be taken away as evidence, they won't sign so just do as little as possible with them to find work

YOUR SANCTIONED

Just imagine you turn up at the job centre plus for your usual signing on or other appointment, like a work focused interview, only to be told you are going to be sanctioned because they sent you a previous letter and you didn't turn up.
This is the first you've heard of this, you think there is nothing you can do about it and will just have to ride it out the best you can. Well actually you can do something you can fight the corrupt bastards by asking them to supply a copy of the proof of postage and, HERE'S THE CLINCHER, proof of receipt!

In my opinion I call the second part the CLINCHER because they cannot provide any proof of receipt. These letters, if they are ever sent out, will just be pushed through your letterbox with the everyday mail. I have a little trick that you can use to get them to admit this and that is email the cunts!
Your email should go along the lines of

[NAME]                           [FIRST LINE OF ADDRESS]                              [NINO]
                                                                                                                 national insurance number

SUBJECT ACCESS REQUEST

Please make sure this gets to the correct department

On [DATE] I was informed I would be sanctioned because of a missed appointment, please provide me with the following information

1. A copy of the appointment letter showing the date and time of the missed appointment
2. The date this letter was posted with a copy of proof of postage
3. Proof of postage of receipt of such letter by the claimant or someone at the said address

For each action that you cannot comply with please state a vilid reason as this will be used as evidence against the DWP/JCP in any future action for compensation and prosection of department staff/managers for FRAUD.
In this action I will claim 3/5/10 times the weekly stoppages, or part of the week.

Yours

[NAME]
[PRINT NAME]

If they cannot prove you received a letter, usually a proof of receipt, then a court should have no option but to find against the DWP/JCP.
Amend in yellow to chosen option

 If you follow this through be prepared for a long fight, they may cave in, but they expect the claimant to be the one to cave first. This is only natural as the DWP/JCP think that without money the claimant will submit, but don't be fooled sometimes the county courts will take cases where money is the hardship for free. You could also let local papers know the DWP are been taken to their local court for fraud you never know it may gain interest.