Insult to Injury
Oh, bureaucracy.
To qualify for financial support, I have to send the Finnish government my results for the previous year as well as confirmation that I am continuing as a student. I originally sent both my transcript for last year as well as a certificate of registration for 2007-2008 in October. I received a letter back stating that they were not sufficient and to send a paper with “the number of completed credits” and a statement that I “have advanced to the next year”. The LSE doesn’t issue any other documents than the ones I sent, and I got a letter stating just that to accompany my transcripts when I sent them again.
Yesterday I received a letter stating “since you have not provided us with documentation in the form that we ask, we have to cancel your financial support effective the first of December”. Great. I wouldn’t be as pissed off or indeed desperate if this wasn’t just insult to the injury of my wages being delayed. I have talked to another Finnish student in my department, and he said that LSE documentation was sufficient for his applications. So why not mine?
I fired off a rather caustic email to Kela last night. It seems that I’ve been stuck with some nazi support officer that enjoys making poor students living overseas squirm. Maybe a supervisor will read my email and beat some sense into her. What part of “no other documentation supplied by my university” does she not understand?