The hopeless-ness of too much red tape

Sorry guys but this is a rant about NAV again. Can you believe they lost my application I sent in on 28 September of this year? Which might actually result in me being without any income from this month until at least mid February? 

So what happened... remember my post from way back in September? That blog explains why I actually sent in the application. After I sent all the documentation (and let me tell you, that is A LOT!) to the right department within the correct timeframe, I was informed just 2 weeks ago that they managed to loose the application. 

Loose my application. 

Right. 

Ok. 

So I sent them all the documentation again. Three days after I sent it all in I got the kind message: thank you for your information. Nothing more, nothing less. 

And now for the past week they have been asking me to send even more information and now it is all sent on to both Sweden and the Netherlands for a thorough check on how much I paid in taxes there. And that can take at least 2 months. Two whole months. So the sykepenger from NAV ended half November and now I am in the interbellum of social security agencies not thinking about their customers and just taking their own good time, preferably without communicating to said customer and then most probably coming back to the good customer with either the message that they lost some crucial information again or that they need some more or other info from the poor customer. 

I am bombarding my not so customer focused veiledere at NAV to get some answers and suggestions from her as it is a pretty daunting prospect to be without any money at all for the next months. 

Oh and yes, I am almost down to counting down the hours to my meeting on Thursday. The video meeting with the Dutch cancer specialists. I am really excited but also a bit apprehensive. I mean beforehand I can still fantasise about them suggesting a miracle cure in Thursday´s meeting whereas when I have had the meeting, the cold hard facts are what I have to deal with. Can be cold facts about a miracle cure, but can also be cold hard facts about things I´d rather not hear. 

A well, no point in worrying about that now. Thursday will be here soon enough. And in the meantime, even though it is not December yet, I am starting to feel Christmassy so I might even set up the Christmas tree and decorate together with Mik! 

#hereandnow #enjoy #livelife