Hi,
you write in your letter that I didn't apply for Income Support when I got the vacancy I found on the Jobcentre website, in March 2007.
This was a job working as self-employed, on behalf of a company named Packaging Europe/Positive Publications, in Norwich.
I worked from home in Liverpool, doing reserach about packaging-companies in Scandinavia.
I couldn't know then how much I was going to earn, because this job wasn't paid on a monthly basis, but I was paid for each company I did research about.
If I did this job properly then it could take me an hour, to call the company and get all the information.
And I would only get one or two pounds, for each company.
But I couldn't know in the beginning that this job wasn't paid as well as the National Minimum Income, since it wasn't paid per hour but per company one 'cleaned'.
And I'm a thorow person so I wanted to do it properly.
And I also was tired after the last job I had, in 2006, for Arvato, who I have an employement-case against.
So I couldn't know this in 2007.
The company in Norwich gave me the impression that I would get paid like national minimum income, but I didn't.
And it isn't like I've first contacted you about this now.
I've contacted you several years ago, about the possibility of getting Income Support for the time I worked on behalf of Packaging Europe, from March 2007 to November/December 2008.
I therefore want to please escalate this to stage 2 of your complaints procedure.
Please contact me if you want me to find my initial e-mail to you about Income Support from around 2009 I guess it must have been.
(Something like this).
I also send a copy e-mail to Packaging Europe so that you can contact them if you want to check how much, (or little), I earned in this job.
Thanks for escalating this to the next step of your complaint procedure!
Yours sincerely,
Erik Ribsskog
