re: vanstone doing a great job!!
It was acknowledged that those who were successful in obtaining assistance were mailny professionals like doctors who were constructing their finances through trusts and the like.
As a brother in law who worked for the public service pointed out later, the smart ones obtained the department's guidlines and then then it was easy. Like doing a spreadsheet backwards. Fill in the totals first and work back using the "model" and its "normal" range figures.
What a joke. For all I know they are still using these "models".
