Anthony Price, 58, retired from the prison service last June for health reasons and had agreed a compensation payment because he was unable to continue working there because of his condition.<\/p>\n
However, despite multiple calls to Capita, waiting on hold for more than four hours, he has still not received the money.<\/p>\n
Anthony, from St Helens, told the BBC he had been forced to borrow money from family to cover his rent and bills.<\/p>\n
With his wife also unwell, Anthony said the issue had caused them a huge amount of stress and was affecting his mental health.<\/p>\n
“I’ve not been able to cope. It’s keeping me awake,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Christmas and New Year were cancelled – we couldn’t do anything.”<\/p>\n
After his MP intervened in his case, Anthony was told he would be paid within five days.<\/p>\n
But he fears if he has to wait any longer he will not be able to pay his rent and could lose his home.<\/p>\n
Anthony said the offer of an interest-free loan from government was “too little, too late” as he had already been forced to borrow money for January and February.<\/p>\n
“It’s so embarrassing,” he said. “I shouldn’t be feeling like this.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Price, 58, retired from the prison service last June for health reasons and had agreed a compensation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-440859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}