{"id":88641,"date":"2018-05-18T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pensioner-racks-up-80-mobile-bill-calling-council-helpline\/"},"modified":"2018-05-18T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T07:03:22","slug":"pensioner-racks-up-80-mobile-bill-calling-council-helpline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/pensioner-racks-up-80-mobile-bill-calling-council-helpline\/","title":{"rendered":"Pensioner racks up \u00a380 mobile bill calling council helpline"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCharges mounted as he was kept on hold to emergency out-of-hours serviceI\u2019m a disabled pensioner and recently incurred an \u00a380 mobile phone bill by calling my local authority emergency out-of-hours adult care department. I made several calls that day, being in extremis, and it has a queuing system which you have to wait on while the seasons change. If I\u2019d known it was going to cost that much, I might have just waited until somebody noticed they hadn\u2019t seen me around for a few weeks. How can it justify a premium-rate number for essential services? PC, Devizes, Wiltshire Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Charges mounted as he was kept on hold to emergency out-of-hours serviceI\u2019m a disabled pensioner...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-n3H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105653,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/waiting-list-grows-for-council-owned-pensioner-housing-in-tararua-district\/","url_meta":{"origin":88641,"position":0},"title":"Waiting list grows for council-owned pensioner housing in Tararua District","date":"April 2, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The Tararua District has had a large increase in residents aged 65 years and over, putting added pressure on the pensioner housing council provides. 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