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by Middo » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:26 am
I made the application myself - reading carefully through the guidance notes and everything. My understanding was you needed to have two pieces of evidence - payslips and a tax letter (P60 as i'm in UK), which I had.
I get paid weekly, so I had a lot of pay slips to submit. I had lost one pay slip, but the total earnings still added up to more than £29,000 for 30 points.
They added up the weekly pay for the pay slips I had provided, ignored the total earnings figure, and calculated £28,926.89, which made me about £73 short of receiving 30 points.
I got the points claimed for everything else - age, education etc. But only 25 for earnings left me short of the 75 points needed.
As I see it now, I have no option now but to make a request for review of the decision, and appeal that the total still adds up to more than £29,000 therefore I should get the extra 5 points for a successful application.
Fingers crossed I guess....