{"id":1858,"date":"2013-03-26T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T05:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darlosworld.co.uk\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2013-04-02T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T09:02:29","slug":"dear-student-loan-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darlosworld.co.uk\/old-wp\/2013\/03\/26\/dear-student-loan-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Student Loan Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slc.co.uk\/\">Student Loan Company<\/a> no longer have some of my information, worryingly. Mainly the information about who can act on my behalf, and correspondence I&#8217;ve sent to them, so not too importa &#8230; oh. So in a recent letter it&#8217;s been pointed out that if I don&#8217;t get some information to the SLC as soon as possible my student loan repayments are going to boom from \u00a368 to just under \u00a3300. I&#8217;ll be sending them at lunch time, but just so that they cannot &#8216;lose&#8217; this information again (or worse, deny they had it at all) I wanted to be able to show it was available to them. Incidentally (related or not I don&#8217;t know) I can no longer access some of the old correspondence in the SLC&#8217;s own repayments website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"originallink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.darlosworld.co.uk\/2013\/03\/26\/dear-student-loan-company\/\">To read the original entry, please click here ( http:\/\/www.darlosworld.co.uk\/2013\/03\/26\/dear-student-loan-company\/ )<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(The following letter has been censored for common sense purposes)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To whom it may concern at the Student Loan Company (particularly June H, Alan B and Kevin O),<\/p>\n<p>As you can see from my hand-written letter (a copy of which will be held by X for future reference), I do not have access to a printer here.<\/p>\n<p>My income details are the same as last year, which I was horrified to learn you no longer have on your system. Similarly I was shocked to find that X has been removed from acting on my behalf.<\/p>\n<p>This letter is to act as a new letter of authority for her to act on my behalf. As you have requested, here are her details:<br \/>\nName: X<br \/>\nDate of birth: XX XX XXXX<br \/>\nAddress: XX XXXXX, XXXXX, XXXXX, XXXXXXX, XXX XXX<br \/>\nRelationship to me: X<br \/>\nPassword: X<\/p>\n<p>According to the instructions on Completing The Overseas Income Assessment form, she is now able to fill in the form on my behalf. The details of which should be:<br \/>\nNational Insurance Number: No change<br \/>\nDate of birth: No change<br \/>\nDate left the UK: 30 July 2011<br \/>\n(Potential) Date resume UK residency: XX XX XXXX<br \/>\nBox A: Employed<br \/>\nBox C: Currency &#8211; Other &#8211; Japanese Yen<br \/>\nTotal Earned income: XXX,XXX (gross) per month<br \/>\nTotal Unearned income: 0 yen.<br \/>\nSignature of X and date.<br \/>\n(Please turn over)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1855\" alt=\"My letter to the student loans company - page 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darlosworld.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/letter-to-slc1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"669\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My appointment at XXXXX is due to end on XX XX XXXX, though I will be looking for continued employment in Japan. I will be in touch then for re-assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Though I won&#8217;t comment on the apparrantly rude attitude that was encountered through your call center (because I cannot confirm for certain what happened), I am concerned about the missing data I mentioned earlier. In the letter dated 18 March 2013, Kevin O wrote <strong><em>&#8220;You must keep all evidence of your income in order for us to do so&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>. Might I suggest you do the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Yours sincerely<\/p>\n<p>Johnathan Darlington<\/p>\n<p>Customer Reference Number: XXXXXXXXXXX<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1856\" alt=\"My letter to the student loans company - page 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darlosworld.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/letter-to-slc2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"669\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1858\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/darlosworld.co.uk\/old-wp\/2013\/03\/26\/dear-student-loan-company\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a 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