Into the mind of fords…

After speaking with a manager about the form in the previous post, it turns out that it could be fraudulent that my midwife hasn’t ticked the box.  Oh, and she filled it out with blue pen when the rest of the form is in black.  So that obviously means it’s a fraudulent claim…

/sarcasm

I’m really starting to wonder if you have to take a Stupid Test when you apply to work for the DWP?  Now I have to fill out yet another form, which will contain exactly the same details.  Luckily I’m seeing my midwife tomorrow so I can tell her how she’s broken the law or some other pile of shite.  I reckon they make it up as they go along, I really do.

Just when things were starting to pick up a little chez Fords, I’m sitting here trying my hardest not to cry out of pure frustration.

As our financial situation isn’t all that fantastic at the moment, I was advised by my midwife that I am eligible for a maternity grant from the government, which means I fill out a form, she signs it, I send it off and I get £500 for the baby.  So far so good.

I sent the form off just before Christmas and got a letter back, saying that I don’t qualify because I didn’t include some certificate.  News to me.  So I phone them up asking them what that means, only to be told that on the page where the midwife signs there is a box she should have ticked, confirming that she has given me health advice.  I point out that well dur, of course she bloody has – she’s my friggin midwife!! I then asked the woman to add this to the application, seeing as it’s such a minor detail, but she insists that I must fill out yet another form.  I point out that in the letter I have I can confirm on the phone any minor adjustments to the application but she’s having none of it.

Now, for the sake of one stupid tickbox that I could have ticked myself (or someone at the DWP for that matter) I have to fill out yet another form and wait even longer for money that I am legally entitled to.  How do I explain to a newborn that because the Department for Work and Pensions is such a fuckup of a government department Mummy and Daddy can’t afford to buy it anything?