Ok, Ok, it’s another funny picture of my nephew, Jude.
I make no apology.
Well … He’s me nephew, what CAN I tell you … ?
Apart from “Lets get moving on with the post” … ?
Yes …
Lets …
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Now, you probably remember me complaining, a few weeks ago, now, that I’d not received either a final payslip, or a P45 from my previous employers.
Well, there was one bit of good news, last Monday.
CeX finally managed to get a replacement final payslip to me.
Which I promptly took down to the local benefits office, complete with an explanation of what was going on, that CeX Brentwood hadn’t supplied me with a P45, and that I didn’t think they would.
The benefits people … ?
Told me to phone back on Friday: they’d be able to let me know what was going on.
Which is exactly what I did.
Thankfully … ?
I’ve been put on full benefits: which, while it’s not much, it does — with careful budgeting* — mean I can survive more easily.
Not only that, but I’m also due some backdated benefits: something I’m grateful for as it means I can settle some outstanding bills and arrears.
Not to put too fine a point on things, but finances have been getting seriously tough: I’m just grateful for the help I’ve had from both friends and family.
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There’s just one irony, though …
Just one.
You see, not long AFTER making the initial phone call to the Department of Work and Pensionsº about whether or not I’d be getting anything from them, I got a call from Brentwood CeX.
Guess what … ?
A week after I’d got the final payslip, and some three months after I’d been given the boot … ?
The P45 had turned up.
You know, there’s possibly a lot of very cynical — and very vernacular — comments I could make, here.
ESPECIALLY in light of two facts.
Firstly … ?
It had turned up after a HELL of a lot of badgering, on my part.
Secondly … ?
It was a photocopy …
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Wouldn’t you know it … ?
Actually, you possibly would: or at least, you’d be taking a good guess … !
But, at ANY rate, I headed BACK to the local benefits office, after heading into town to pick the form up.
AND visit Brentwood Library to scan the various parts into digital formª: just to make sure I’ve got a copy …
And just when I got to the benefit office in Brentwood, to see whether it was still worth my while, sending it in … ?
Is when I got the phone-call from their Basildon branch, to tell me the benefit — and the backlog — had gone through.
Wouldn’t you bloody well know it … ?
* Something I’m sure most of my ex-girlfriends will tell you I’m not good at …
º The government department that handle pensions and the various benefits here in the UK.
ª My multi-function printer/scanner/copier bit the dust a long time ago: although I MAY just dig it out of the attic‡ to see if the scanner functions still work.
‡ OK, I live in a flat. It’s a metaphorical attic, that’s physically located in the same place as my fuse box. In the airing cupboard.
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