Covid-19 has increased bereavement process delays
Research indicates that 73% of legal firms say lockdown has exacerbated the probate process problem.
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When are people going to realise this is a WORLD problem and fings aint what they used to be.
Get a grip lads and lassies (alphabetical). Although we would all like to work the same we can't. It's not nice but it is a fact of life. What is really worrying is how fragile the world really is when something like this changes everything.
Lockdown Rules state:-
"You can leave home for work purposes, or to provide voluntary or charitable services, where you cannot do this from home."
Clearly they cannot do the work from home, so go to work!
I have not missed a day since January, as I cannot do my work effectively from home.
HMRC and Councils still expect to be paid on time. Covid is not an all purpose excuse!
you've hit the nail on the head. The civil servants don't lose any pay if they get less work done than normal
The delays have become extreme, I have a friend who has been waiting almost 6 months for probate to be granted and it has led to delays in house sale completion and funding issues for his mother's care home fees.
Probably not helped by a solicitor who promises to get things done then doesn't...
Come on Ian, you're a realist, like me, so you know that those that are getting paid regardless of the situation will take their time.
There is no delay in protesters, protesting about something. There is no delay in winos getting money for their booze, walking up and down the town in 4's 5's and 6's. I asked one of our local bobbies about it and he said what's the point in fining them?
Unfortunately lockdown makes some people lethargic and this has a knock on effect.
There is a similar delay in setting up Power of Attorney arrangements - and for the same reasons.
In mid September the Office of the Public Guardian Scotland was working on submission from mid February. By mid November, they are now dealing with submission from mid March. Things are going backwards.
Will one single member of staff be losing income? Are they failing to get the work done by whatever working from home system they have? If NOT getting job done at home they should be at work.