Mobile calls to claim benefits go free
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From: Lars Homestead on 18 Jan 2010 06:24 From: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_184160 Published: Friday, 15 January 2010 From next week, call to claims benefits and pensions from a mobile phone will be free, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has said. Calls to the 0800 numbers affected are already free from BT land lines. Most mobile calls to claim benefits will be free Need to claim a benefit? Call the national number: 0800 0 55 66 88 From next week, six of the biggest mobile phone network companies will no longer charge their customers for calls to DWP 0800 Benefit Claim lines. Calls to claim benefits and state pension use 0800 numbers, and are already free to customers using BT land lines. But 12 per cent of UK households use only mobile phones. Calls to around 70 of the DWP 0800 numbers will be free as of 18 January. These numbers are used by people making initial claims for benefit and pensions and to request emergency payments, such as crisis loans. Dates for the call rate to change vary The calls will be free from 18 January if your phone is with: O2 Orange Tesco Mobile Vodafone The free calls will start as of 25 January if your phone is with: T-Mobile Virgin Mobile Together, the six companies with whom the DWP has signed agreements cover over 90 per cent of the UK's mobile market. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, said: "We don't want people who lose their jobs or the poorest pensioners to be penalised when they need to claim benefits." ---- Good idea but it's about time 0800 calls from mobiles were free anyway.
From: Graham. on 18 Jan 2010 18:15 "Lars Homestead" <lars.homestead(a)sky.com> wrote in message news:hj1gcb$ce6$1(a)news.albasani.net... > From: > http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_184160 > > Published: Friday, 15 January 2010 > > From next week, call to claims benefits and pensions from a mobile phone will be free, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) > has said. Calls to the 0800 numbers affected are already free from BT land lines. > Most mobile calls to claim benefits will be free > > Need to claim a benefit? > Call the national number: 0800 0 55 66 88 > > From next week, six of the biggest mobile phone network companies will no longer charge their customers for calls to DWP 0800 > Benefit Claim lines. > > Calls to claim benefits and state pension use 0800 numbers, and are already free to customers using BT land lines. But 12 per cent > of UK households use only mobile phones. > > Calls to around 70 of the DWP 0800 numbers will be free as of 18 January. These numbers are used by people making initial claims > for benefit and pensions and to request emergency payments, such as crisis loans. > > Dates for the call rate to change vary > The calls will be free from 18 January if your phone is with: > > O2 > > Orange > > Tesco Mobile > > Vodafone > The free calls will start as of 25 January if your phone is with: > T-Mobile > Virgin Mobile > > Together, the six companies with whom the DWP has signed agreements cover over 90 per cent of the UK's mobile market. > Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, said: "We don't want people who lose their jobs or the poorest pensioners > to be penalised when they need to claim benefits." > > ---- > > Good idea but it's about time 0800 calls from mobiles were free anyway. I remember when they were free on one network One2one IIRC. -- Graham. %Profound_observation%
From: Theo Markettos on 18 Jan 2010 19:38 Graham. <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > "Lars Homestead" <lars.homestead(a)sky.com> wrote in message news:hj1gcb$ce6$1(a)news.albasani.net... > > Good idea but it's about time 0800 calls from mobiles were free anyway. > > I remember when they were free on one network One2one IIRC. They're free today on giffgaff. Or are, until they get fed up chasing dialthrough numbers getting round the system and start charging for them :( Theo
From: Up Yours! on 19 Jan 2010 01:20 "Graham." <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:hj2q1q$nfc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > > "Lars Homestead" <lars.homestead(a)sky.com> wrote in message > news:hj1gcb$ce6$1(a)news.albasani.net... >> From: >> http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_184160 >> >> Published: Friday, 15 January 2010 >> >> From next week, call to claims benefits and pensions from a mobile phone >> will be free, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has said. Calls >> to the 0800 numbers affected are already free from BT land lines. >> Most mobile calls to claim benefits will be free >> >> Need to claim a benefit? >> Call the national number: 0800 0 55 66 88 >> >> From next week, six of the biggest mobile phone network companies will no >> longer charge their customers for calls to DWP 0800 Benefit Claim lines. >> >> Calls to claim benefits and state pension use 0800 numbers, and are >> already free to customers using BT land lines. But 12 per cent of UK >> households use only mobile phones. >> >> Calls to around 70 of the DWP 0800 numbers will be free as of 18 January. >> These numbers are used by people making initial claims for benefit and >> pensions and to request emergency payments, such as crisis loans. >> >> Dates for the call rate to change vary >> The calls will be free from 18 January if your phone is with: >> >> O2 >> >> Orange >> >> Tesco Mobile >> >> Vodafone >> The free calls will start as of 25 January if your phone is with: >> T-Mobile >> Virgin Mobile >> >> Together, the six companies with whom the DWP has signed agreements cover >> over 90 per cent of the UK's mobile market. >> Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Yvette Cooper, said: "We don't >> want people who lose their jobs or the poorest pensioners to be penalised >> when they need to claim benefits." >> >> ---- >> >> Good idea but it's about time 0800 calls from mobiles were free anyway. > > I remember when they were free on one network One2one IIRC. Also 0800 used to be free frrom Orange contract phones...
From: Steve Terry on 20 Jan 2010 01:39
"Graham." <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:hj2q1q$nfc$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Lars Homestead" <lars.homestead(a)sky.com> wrote in message > news:hj1gcb$ce6$1(a)news.albasani.net... >> From: >> http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_184160 <snip> >> Good idea but it's about time 0800 calls from mobiles were free anyway. > > I remember when they were free on one network One2one IIRC. > > 121 ended free 0800 long before Orange which was the last, although new Giffgaff on O2 have reintroduced them Ironic as Cellnet / O2 had never offered free 0800 (except to some special services) Steve Terry -- Get a free Three 3pay Sim with �2 bonus after �10 top up http://freeagent.three.co.uk/stand/view/id/5276 |