Universal Credit Review - data protection breach!

This is absolutely disgraceful!!!!!

Thanks for the reply.Sorry to be a pest but i have two queriues…

1.Would it be best for me,in the first instAnce,to complain to the Job Centre involved,or email the Data Protection Officer direct?

2.What would i have to gain even if my complaint is upheld?

Thanks agAin

JW.

Thanks for the reply.

I get why these checks are done due to fraud etc, I've seen many posts here and elsewhere with people panicking due to undeclared property, capital that hasn't been reported etc.

However as a claimant it's a gross invasion of privacy and humiliating to have to submit full bank statements and be quizzed about how I spend my money - all but one of my questions related to household bills or a window cleaner who costs me the grand sum of £12pm!

I'd love to see these checks stopped especially as it seems they have misappropriated legislation meant for something else as justification for being allowed to do so.

I haven’t been affected by this, it’s, for my family member. They haven’t asked for statements….yet but when they do they aren’t getting them, and if they stop her money they will have a fight on their hands because it doesn’t affect the entitlement, and it’s really that simple. All their wording is “may lose your money”. They are leaning on people hoping they just do as they say. I won’t allow it and my family won’t either. I would happily fight this with you today. As and when they do try this with us, I will be in touch and am willing to help in any way possible!

I would definitely join a class action.

Since I last posted on here the DWP have been making my life hell.

I changed my current account in July as my other one I’d had for over 20 years and it was rubbish.

I finally bucked up courage to move. Th bank did it all for me and closed the old one. I notified PIP by phone and UC through my journal to report the change and give them my new account details.

PIP implemented the change immediately and my payment went in just a few days later.

UC told me that I would need to go into ‘Report a change’ which I did, filled in all fields with the new details as requested then up popped a phone number telling me to ring and make an appointment.

I did so and was told that in order to get any further UC payments I have to go into the job centre with my bank details and my id.

I told them that I am six months of state pension age, chronically sick, cannot walk very far and fall over.

They insisted that despite being in this state as well as immunocompromised, I must still go into Report.

The job centre is miles away, not in my town and not even the same county!

I’m due to be paid on the 12th and I go into hospital for major surgery on the 11th, they have already been told about this.

Still they insisted I must attend even though a taxi will cost £50 there and back and I cannot afford that.

I live alone and they said to get someone else to go into Report. I explained that all my family work full time and live nowhere near there either.

I also told them that I do not discuss my personal affairs with anyone and it will be staying the same way.

They won’t budge and I will come out of hospital with several weeks recovery ahead of me with no UC.

They even had the cheek to use this as an opportunity to get me to bring in the four months bank statements which I have absolutely no intention of giving them.

I’ve even had the horrible bloke who is doing my review leaving voice mails today after I demanded to know why they’re making my life hell and that I will be escalating this.

I am in such a state already over having surgery and they’ve just pushed me right to the edge.

I have a previously booked appointment tomorrow with my mental health nurse and I am going to tell her what they’ve been doing now.

I am beside myself and feel sick to my stomach and tearful.

They are cruel bullies.