Got all the usual forms.....which were 20 times worse than the last one.....spent night after night filling them in.....sent them off with a sigh of relief and then shock horror back came a letter with all the forms....I had forgotten to sign them...well excuse me...I was completely and utterly brain dead by the time I came to the signy bit.
Enclosed with all this bumph was an explanatory booklet.....not a good choice of name....you needed an explanatory booklet just to fathom out the explanatory booklet...but a little paragraph popped out at me......
Quote " if you wish to be given an estimate of the pension you are likely to receive......log on to www.gov/pension.....blah.... blah... OK...nosey old me.....logs on.....fills out more forms......gets to last page eventually......."YOU HAVE NOW REGISTERED FOR THIS SERVICE" and will be sent a code to activate. OK we are getting somewhere now.....code arrives one week later and you wouldn't believe......it's about 30 digits long.....OK...keep calm......enter code and what message do I get......
"THIS SERVICE IS UNAVAILABLE"
so why in the name of the wee man (that's a Scottish saying) did you send me the bloody code in the first place if the service doesn't work. To be perfectly honest I have given up and will be grateful for any amount......just please don't make me fill in any more forms. Me thinks this may be the latest Government ploy.....get all these oldies so stressed out...that they pop their clogs and save us lots of money in unclaimed pensions.....Government and Finance......gee.....not a surprise then that the country is in such a state.
Am now off to have a lie down in a very dark room...have totally lost the will to live.
Love Kath xxxxxx
Love Kath xxxxxx