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I'm an IT contractor with SC (government clearance).
Long story short, I've already lost one contract and have had a 6 week delay starting another one. Normally SC is transferred from previous place to new place in about a week.
In this case, even though I had a letter from 2017, the previous place had "lost" all record of it.
Its taken them this long to investigate and they've admitted they made an error in 2017 and did not record it properly. Its all sorted now - no thanks to them - I had to apply for SC from scratch.
I've had 6 weeks of no income because of this. (I was offered contract Dec 23rd with expectation that SC would be transferred in a week or so - my start date is now 28th Feb). Notwithstanding the one contract lost, I'm massively out of pocket because of this. I appreciate people make mistakes but its been a very tough 6 weeks financially.
Am I even able to sue a government department? Is there any point? Where would I start?
Long story short, I've already lost one contract and have had a 6 week delay starting another one. Normally SC is transferred from previous place to new place in about a week.
In this case, even though I had a letter from 2017, the previous place had "lost" all record of it.
Its taken them this long to investigate and they've admitted they made an error in 2017 and did not record it properly. Its all sorted now - no thanks to them - I had to apply for SC from scratch.
I've had 6 weeks of no income because of this. (I was offered contract Dec 23rd with expectation that SC would be transferred in a week or so - my start date is now 28th Feb). Notwithstanding the one contract lost, I'm massively out of pocket because of this. I appreciate people make mistakes but its been a very tough 6 weeks financially.
Am I even able to sue a government department? Is there any point? Where would I start?
