"THOUSANDS of unemployed, disabled and elderly people in South Yorkshire are being forced to use ‘rip-off’ 0845 phone numbers when enquiring about benefits, jobs and pensions.

Wentworth and Dearne Labour MP John Healey has highlighted how 148 of the Department for Work and Pensions’ phone lines - some 87 per cent - are 0845 numbers."

See story here:  http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/thousands-in-south-yorkshire-ripped-off-by-0845-numbers-1-5115991

It amused me  ;D to see the article/page was sponsored  by a solicitors using a 0845 number.

bigjohn wrote on Nov 11^th, 2012 at 6:42pm:

"THOUSANDS of unemployed, disabled and elderly people in South Yorkshire are being forced to use ‘rip-off’ 0845 phone numbers when enquiring about benefits, jobs and pensions. Wentworth and Dearne Labour MP John Healey has highlighted how 148 of the Department for Work and Pensions’ phone lines - some 87 per cent - are 0845 numbers." See story here:  http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/thousands-in-south-yorkshire-ripped-off-by-0845-numbers-1-5115991 It amused me  ;D to see the article/page was sponsored  by a solicitors using a 0845 number.

Same solicitors who last year claimed their 0845 was Freephone:-

http://www.saynoto0870.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.cgi?num=1321709981/6#6


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