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smokingboot ([personal profile] smokingboot) wrote2013-08-30 11:44 am

Compensation from the Criminal Injuries Board.

Nothing like a laugh first thing.

[identity profile] nyarbaggytep.livejournal.com 2013-08-30 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm, a kind of hollow sickened sort of laugh that prevents you from screaming? Or an actual jolly belly laugh? I'm assuming the former...

[identity profile] smokingboot.livejournal.com 2013-08-30 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Your assumption is bang on the money!

[identity profile] november-girl.livejournal.com 2013-08-30 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Appeal it. I used to deal with that fairly often at work, and almost everyone that was appealled increased substantially. That was about a decade ago, but still...

[identity profile] smokingboot.livejournal.com 2013-08-30 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you lady, I remember you giving me this advice when you came to visit...and I followed it.

The sum they are offering me now is after appeal; and it's exactly the same :-(

[identity profile] november-girl.livejournal.com 2013-08-31 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Oh dear. So sorry to hear that.

[identity profile] cat-that-walks.livejournal.com 2013-08-31 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, but you expect the govt to play fair?
If so, I got some prime bottom land I could sell you...

The Big Society

[identity profile] smokingboot.livejournal.com 2013-08-31 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
Big bonuses for big earners, big bottoms for everyone else.

But there are folk in far worse situations, so I guess it's not the end of the world.