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30.06.17

Dear Benefits Manager,

I am writing to ask if you would reconsider my claim for housing and council tax benefits which you informed me about with your letter dated 20th June 2017.

Please note. Unfortunately I did not receive your letter date: 11th May 2017 which I informed your office about via a phone call recently. I also did not receive the self-employed earnings form which you mentioned in your recent letter 20th June 2017; So I have enclosed my original one which I handed in at Olive Morris House on 15th May 2017. I have also added new information / amendments with todays date 30th June 2017 along with my initials.

My circumstances are that I have no income at all after signing off from JSA on the 9th May 2017. After being unemployed for just over a year I was put on a scheme, by the job centre, called the work programme with the Shaw Trust. Through these weekly meetings with my advisor (Mo) I was convinced to apply for work credits and start my own self-employed business as well as to stop signing on for JSA. At the time I had a verbal agreement for a temporary job in Prague, at a film school, which has now been indefinitely postponed.

Due to my financial difficulties it was decided along with my advisor to apply for work credits and to apply to continue receiving housing / council tax benefits to to help contribute towards my living costs. We sat down and filled in the forms, including the self-employed earnings form handed in on 15th May 2017 at Olive Morris House (attached). Since then I have not received any money from the work credits and disappointingly have now had my housing / council tax benefit stopped.

Due to owing over seven thousand pounds on credit cards and interest I took the extreme decision to undertake an experimental drug trial at Parexell at Nothwick Park hospital. Please see recent scans sent 25th June 2017 in response to your letter asking for proof of my income dated 20th May 2017. It was my hope to use this money, from a potentially dangerous situation both physically and mentally, to pay off some of these debts and buy a second hand computer to start the aforementioned business. This money has been my only source of income and has now all gone on living costs and I still have the increasing debts.

Just to be clear I have no income or potential work coming my way. I have just received your latest notification and I am at a loss on how I am going to survive and pay another months rent. I am applying for work constantly with my debts rising all the time.

I hope you will reconsider your decision. 

 

Yours hopefully,