Is there anyone in the public sector.......

[Loosehead]

...who knows their arse from their elbow?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5032170.stm

[LeMarchand]

...and yet, after a period of living off my redundancy money rather than claiming benefits, I was sent a letter informing me that I had made insufficient NI contributions and needed to do something about it! Grrrrrr!

[admarlow]

no (and I used to be a recruitment consultant for Benefits assessors, fraud officers and council tax officers) they are either incompetent or are on the fiddle. (oh and most of them are not british but have come over from somewhere else to do the job, I can only comment to the temp ones though (who get �20 - �32 per hour!)

[goldenboy]

yes, i do, im a civil servant.

[goldenboy]

i posted a longer more informed answer twice that failed to go through and now cannot be bothered to post a cogent retort to you. sorry

[Gef]

Trying again. As with goldenboy can't post answer and AB won't let me post answer to your knife amnesty thred.

[Gef]

Is someone at AB reading the answers as we post them. I know it sounds impossible.

[johnlambert]

spooky, the same thing happened to me this afrernoon

[fat rascal]

i work in the NHS ,and yep i certainly know my arse from my elbow

[THECORBYLOON]

I do.

[Coobeastie]

Yes we do but we are more open to public scrutiny. You don't hear about mistakes made in the private sector because its not news worthy.

[flip-flop]

...........or it could be because those of us in the private sector are dealing with paying clients who would not tolerate incompetency.

[JudgeJ]

The trouble with the family tax credit system, loosehead, is that it works by estimating the recipient�s income for six months and paying them tax credit accordingly. If the recipient sees an increase in their salary (which would result in a decrease in their tax credit) nothing can be done for six months until their income is reassessed. They thus become �overpaid�.

The fault with this lies not with the public sector workers. They are simply operating a system in the way they have been told to. The fault (not surprisingly) lies once again with the policies of this preposterous government, and more specifically the Greatest Chancellor The World Has Ever Known, one Gordon Brown. It was he who introduces his flagship �Family Tax Credit� system.

The country had a perfectly adequate system of providing tax relief to those families with children. It was administered via the PAYE system and needed no estimates of income for it to work. Of course, something working so well could not possibly be left alone, hence the current chaos.

[Loosehead]

Thanks Judge, If it aint broke fix it anyway then, good old Gordon!

[THECORBYLOON]

flip-flop what's yir job?

[flashpig]

Yes.

[flip-flop]

I'm in the private sector.

[THECORBYLOON]

I gathered that flip-flop but what is yir job?

[flip-flop]

Compliance officer for an American bank.