My council are breaking the law and ignoring my complaints
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I guess this isn't an issue you can grasp one bit. I'm sure you'd think differently if you were visually impaired.
There's also a huge difference between not understanding your mail and not being able to read it because someone's far too lazy to put it in the format they're required to do so by law.
You're right, it will cost them money. It'll cost them pence. Meanwhile, I've got to pay £174 per year for my council tax. So why on earth can't they use some of that money I'm forced to pay them to do things properly? The law states they have to do that. -
Username_removed said:1) You need to sort out who needs to do large print; make sure they know and give them a chance to comply.
2) You need to explore other RAs like low vision aids and if they work then brilliant. If they do not then you need to explain what you’ve tried and what happened.
3) If neither of the above work then you get an EA 10 solicitor and explore a clai, for damages in the county court amongst other options.
if you do anything less than this then I am happy to predict, once again, that thus will run and run.
2) Low vision aids don't work at all. Believe me, I've tried. My local low vision clinic and the hearing and sight centre have both worked with me on and off for the last 11 years or so and tried to come up with solutions for my problems. But they can't. Not helped by the constant tiredness, the hearing difficulties (which means no text to speech software) and my sight slowly going which makes using any low vision aid difficult. -
But what are the exceptions? The only ones I'm aware of (health and safety and it being impossible to make an adjustment) don't apply here.
They're well aware I live alone and I'm not taking my mail to my parents house every time it needs to be sorted. -
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Not on the priority register for water. Electricity, yes.
Not had a problem getting any large print letters from anywhere else. Just the council.
The only alternative that would work for me is putting everything large print. But according to the complaints I've sent over the years, this has to be done manually and apparently, there's no option for it. It takes 2 minutes to copy and paste it into Microsoft Word.
This has been going on for far too long and I'm getting seriously fed up of it. All I want to do is to read my own mail. Is that really too much to ask? -
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IvecwalkI'v into their office and they've printed a copy there for me which does show they can do it.
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Yes actually...
Which tells me they're ************ about their claims about it costing them far too much money.
Not sure what exactly they expect me to do - magnifying aids don't help one bit and I'd rather not sign up, especially when there are constant reports of websites / users details being compromised. And no, I'm not (as a former bank suggested) going into their office every time I need them to do something.
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