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dear sirs: is there any chance you could do a documentary on one if not all of the credit bureaus e.g. expedian?
i am an american living in the uk.(now also a british citizen). the reason i left the usa was because of these companies collecting information on me and everyone in the usa without their consent. i recently had problems with expedian because of some mis- information that the bank, HALIFAX, gave them. first of all, i want to know who gave expedian permission to collect information on me and the rest of the uk. and why they just accept information from big companies, e.g. banks, without clarifing it whether it is correct or not. 1984 is slowing creeping into england like a cancer. HALIFAX has ruined my credit-because they gave expedian the wrong information, leaving my dependent daughter, my cat and dog and me homeless at the age of 61. halifax can't even balance their own books, much less mine. when is this policing going to stop? can't you do something to expose these companies by showing the public how they can destroy many peoples lives. thank you in advance for any comments you can give me.
The reality of work in the UK is quite simply that it doesn't pay to work, i`m not on the sick (incapacity benefit or whatever), I am just on JSA which is less, and it doesn't pay for me to work. So people who are on the sick and get more than me definatly won't benefit from working. You can do your calculations and try to tell people that we would be better off working, but there is all sorts of things you have to worry about while working (and pay for) which you simply don't need to do while on JSA or other benefits. For example Rent costs a fortune if you work, or nothing if you are on JSA. You only have to pay many taxes if you work. You have to pay for the dentists if you work. You have to pay to travel to (and from) work. You lose JSA (thats over £60 a week). So when everything is taken into consideration and you work out just how much better off you are for working, you divide that amount by the number of hours you work, you will see you are actualy working for some silly amount like 30p an hour. I don't know about you but I consider my time to be worth much more than that. And of course I don't need to work because I manage to save about £100 a month while on JSA. There is nothing to temp people to work these days because benefits are so generous.