Mundane News
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Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Some rather less mundane news: in 2015 I was getting income support because of illness, and as part of my Rehab I started a voluntary year, with the approval of the Job Center, as a step towards getting re qualified.
As this changed my status from "Unable to work" to "Enrolled on Federal Voluntary Programme" but I still needed income support, I organised this with the Job Center and got moving. About six weeks later I was told the I also have to tell another agency, the "Employment Agency" because my new status meant they were somehow involved and the Job Center despite being in the same building doesn't inform them of these changes, so I hand delivered a letter to make sure it went in quickly.
Fast forward to about eighteen months ago; rehab complete, three years of retraining done, job found, I sent a letter to the Job Center telling them I the new situation.
Got a very snarky letter from the Employment Agency saying I'd fraudulently been claiming benefits for (you guessed it) six weeks in 2015: they wanted the money (ca. 600€) immediately and they ware considering a charge of Gross Negligence.
When you are starting out in a career in social care you really don't need a charge of Gross Negligence hanging over you.
Much running about government offices ensued, including one helpful person from the Employment agency who was furious about this and gathered evidence on my behalf that I had spoken to the Job Center and the Employment Agency and therefore wasn't guilty of Gross negligence, a social worker and lawyer who helped me take the case to the social court in Stuttgart.
This has been rumbling away and last month I got news the Gross Negligence charge was withdrawn.
Today we got a letter that the Employment Agency wasn't claiming the 600€ either because they had recognised my complaint, an event so rare I think I may have to frame it...
As this changed my status from "Unable to work" to "Enrolled on Federal Voluntary Programme" but I still needed income support, I organised this with the Job Center and got moving. About six weeks later I was told the I also have to tell another agency, the "Employment Agency" because my new status meant they were somehow involved and the Job Center despite being in the same building doesn't inform them of these changes, so I hand delivered a letter to make sure it went in quickly.
Fast forward to about eighteen months ago; rehab complete, three years of retraining done, job found, I sent a letter to the Job Center telling them I the new situation.
Got a very snarky letter from the Employment Agency saying I'd fraudulently been claiming benefits for (you guessed it) six weeks in 2015: they wanted the money (ca. 600€) immediately and they ware considering a charge of Gross Negligence.
When you are starting out in a career in social care you really don't need a charge of Gross Negligence hanging over you.
Much running about government offices ensued, including one helpful person from the Employment agency who was furious about this and gathered evidence on my behalf that I had spoken to the Job Center and the Employment Agency and therefore wasn't guilty of Gross negligence, a social worker and lawyer who helped me take the case to the social court in Stuttgart.
This has been rumbling away and last month I got news the Gross Negligence charge was withdrawn.
Today we got a letter that the Employment Agency wasn't claiming the 600€ either because they had recognised my complaint, an event so rare I think I may have to frame it...
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Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Sunny, still and definitely not quite so cold here chez Casa Reynard.
I spent the morning doing errands. Posted some things that wanted posting and I now have all the gubbins I need to service my chainsaw. For the latter, I went to the local agricultural engineering place just up the road. Yes, I could get things much cheaper at Screwfix, but I have to get to Witchford to do that, and it's also good to support a local independent, especially in times like these.
A quiet afternoon working on my writing project is on the cards, and then I need to pop to Tesco for a few bits and a spot of yellow stickering.
I spent the morning doing errands. Posted some things that wanted posting and I now have all the gubbins I need to service my chainsaw. For the latter, I went to the local agricultural engineering place just up the road. Yes, I could get things much cheaper at Screwfix, but I have to get to Witchford to do that, and it's also good to support a local independent, especially in times like these.
A quiet afternoon working on my writing project is on the cards, and then I need to pop to Tesco for a few bits and a spot of yellow stickering.
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Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Aaargh... She only went and yanked the tail off... This morning, I found mouse and tail in completely different parts of the house...
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Just back from a refreshing 13 milesand the skies are clear and blue .
Might de Christmas the house today
They always stay up till Twelfth Night here.
Mind, I don't put them up till just a few days before Christmas.I only have a 2 ft tree on a coffee table, and the rest of the decorations is greenery from the garden, so that's just a matter of putting it in the green wheelie bin.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
That's in the garageThe loft is not a sensible place for your Zimmer frame, is it?
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Oh, and the 10kg sack of cat biscuits I ordered turned up this morning. Cue two very happy furry ones.
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
- Location
- Land of Lincoln
Ta very much!
LeetleGreyCells
Un rouleur infatigable
- Location
- Whitehaven Mansions
Christmas decorations down and away for another year.
It is snowing rather heavily here.
I am playing Cluedo Junior with the family.
I may have eaten an After Eight or two.
It is snowing rather heavily here.
I am playing Cluedo Junior with the family.
I may have eaten an After Eight or two.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Lovely lunch of turkey noodle soup, a sandwich with lox and a schmear, two 
and a clementine.
and a clementine.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
Happy Birthday .
