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 Posted: 15:29 - 06 Nov 2011  Post subject: Re: DVA compensation |
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| DonnyBrago wrote: | | parkmoy wrote: | My Mod 1 was cancelled just before I arrived at the test centre due to failure of the speed measuring equipment. It was rescheduled foc and the DVA sent me a compensation cheque for £16 without any application on my part.
I travelled to the test centre by car as I was using a school bike and it was a round trip of 60 miles from my home address. I didn't lose any wages or have any other expenses. It works out at 26.6p a mile. The civil service rate is 40p per mile.
Should I claim at the civil service rate or would that be petty for the extra £8? |
They still paid you 26p a mile, didn't cost you that in fuel unless you went by helicopter. Stop being a pikey  . |
The AA give diesel car running costs based on an average of 10,000 miles per year, taking standing charges and running costs into account, as 40.15p per mile. According to them, that's what it costs me to run my car.
The Urban Dictionary defines 'pikey' as:-
"Pikey is not a racial group, the term is used to describe anyone who lives in a caravan or shares the same values and "culture" of "the travelling community", and whose main sources of income are as follows:
Stealing cars, flogging roses in pubs for "childrens' charities", nicking lead off roofs, burgling garden sheds, blagging entry to old peoples house to rob them, doing dodgy tarmac jobs ("we've got some black stuff left over from a job up the road"), sometimes with mint imperials used as a substitute for white chippings, or, reportedly, using snow to lay slabs on when the sand ran out, stealing your bollocks if they weren't in a bag and anything else that's not nailed down and anything that is nailed down but will fit in the back of an untaxed Transit when nobody's looking.
Characterised by lurchers on a string, a unintelligible language that "isn't English, it isn't Irish, it's just Pikey" (source: Film: Snatch), a penchant for harecoursing, ketamine, lighter fuel, fighting in pubs and shopping at Lidl."
I have been known to shop at Lidl, true, but it doesn't mention mugging the DVA for compensation  |
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They've actually been pretty reasonable, but on the other hand, they've also been pretty ignorant and arrogant in assuming that you had no other or higher expenses.
Eh, I dunno, I can't get any proper rage on but I'd be inclined to fire off some letters just to make the incompetent spanners do some work.
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Passed my Mod 2 today and love everybody including the DVA so I can't be arsed to chase any more compo. (Doffs helmet and says Thank you to civil servant type) |
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Why is it greedy to consider asking for compensation at what the AA considers the appropriate rate? Should we just doff our helmets and say 'Thank you sir', and accept what a civil servant somewhere has deemed is enough?
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