Well I suppose the beginning is the best place to start!
On 15th June I went for a treadmill test at Abergavenny hospital and it was found that I had stress angina and that was effectively the end of my HGV licence for the time being I thought. It turns out that my thinking was right but it was totally the end of it as I was not bad enough for a bypass operation but too bad to hold an HGV! Catch 22 situation.
I was told not to go to work but to go and see my GP the following day and was duly signed off. I stayed off work until 19th October when Next terminated my employment as I was no good to them with no licence. They had (bless them) tried everything to keep me, even to trying to persuade head office to acquire a 7.5 tonne vehicle for me to use as I had at that time retained that licence.
I went to the job centre on my way home and was told by them that I was to ring a number to give details to get unemployment benefit.
I did this the next day only to be told that as my chances ,with my skills, were less than 1% of getting another job I would be passed on to the department of works and pesions and get pension credits, thereby getting early retirement.
Well you can imagine my consternation, in one foul swoop I went from a joint income for myself and Sue of around £44,000 (thats around £850 a week) to a total joint income of £198 a week on pension credits.
TO BE CONTINUED !!!
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