Oftel accused of 192 fiasco [Archive]

Stephen Robb

09-09-2003, 10:42

It's the old maxim matey, if it ain't broke don't fix it! It was the same with the Tax credits. Everything running smoothly! Ah, we will change the name and give it to the Inland Revenue to work out. As if they didn't have enough work of their own to do.

Result. My ex is still waiting to be paid from January. She, like a lot of other families are now getting into serious debt. She is getting leaned on (plus half of the estate where she lives) by the Housing Association that owns the estate, because they can't pay the rent.

The last announcement by this Government, we are having serious problems with software running this scheme, and people may be paid very late, or not even paid at all