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Very *********** Call centre and Claims department regarding a claim made last year on the 30 September 2020 Kindly note your email trail
katlego osborne <***> Jan 7, 2021, 1:58 PM (6 days ago) to CCRFAdmin, bcc: Admin
To whom it may concern
Kindly assist with the below enquiry.
Please advise regarding my payout for Retirement or provident funds from Affinity Health with Scheme Number: 21362.
Membership Number :M***3.
Claim Number: ***
kindly note my two reference numbers: Complaint Ref: RMU-547 and Callback Ref:L1 - 2FE for my enquiries none with any feedback.
Kind regards
Katlego Osborn Mohlahlo.
Customer Complaints Office <***> Fri, Jan 8, 8:32 AM (5 days ago) to me
Dear Katlego
Member number: M***3
Fund name: Affinity Health (Pty) Ltd
Complaint reference: RMU-547
At Alexander Forbes, our clients are important to us and I am sorry to learn that you’re dissatisfied with our service. Thank you for taking time to bring this to my attention.
I will be dealing with your complaint and aim to resolve it within four (4) working days. If your complaint is complex and takes longer to resolve, I’ll inform you and give you regular progress updates.
Please read our complaints procedure, as it explains how we will deal with your complaint and what you can do if you are unhappy with the outcome or the way it is handled.
Thank you
Kind Regards
Mpho Mohlabi l Client Liaison Officer l Customer Experience l Group Shared Services l FINANCIAL SERVICES
Tel +***6 l Sharecall ***l Fax +***5 l ***
Alexander Forbes Financial Services (Pty) Ltd | +***0 | PO Box 787240, Sandton, 2146, South Africa | Alexander Forbes, 115 West Street, Sandown Co. Reg. No. *** | FAIS Licence No.1177 | An authorised financial services provider | www.alexanderforbes.co.za
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katlego osborne <***> Fri, Jan 8, 8:39 AM (5 days ago) to Customer
Thank you for your response.
I will kindly be patient and let progress of your procedure take place only if I get constant feedback from you.
im happy to provide you with the claim documents supposedly sent through to you guys for the claim that i made.
Kind regards
katlego Mohlahlo
katlego osborne <***> Attachments Jan 8, 2021, 8:50 AM (5 days ago) to Customer
Good day to whom it may concern.
Kindly note the claim form and also the withdrawal claim form i filled on the 30 September 2020 till to this day no feedback from your institutions.
Please be advised that if no feedback by end of the day I'm logging a complaint with the ombudsman along with other financial bodies that are in place to regulate your services towards clients satisfaction.
Kind regards
Katlego Mohlahlo
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Claim form receipt Inbox
Admin via aforbes.com Sun, Jan 10, 9:21 PM (3 days ago) to me
Dear Katlego Osborn Mohlahlo
Thank you for contacting the Alexander Forbes Help Desk.
With reference to your below email kindly be advised your claim was received.
Please note disinvestment was initiated on 08/01/2021 and will be finalized within 3-5 working days.
Kindly be advised the standard timeframe for claims to be settled is between 4 and 6 weeks after disinvestment is finalized. This is provided;
There is no outstanding information pending from the company and There are no issues with SARS
Should you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us either on ***or at ***
Regards,
Alexander Forbes Client Interaction Centre l FINANCIAL SERVICE
Automatic reply: Employer pension and provident Fund Enquiry for Claim No:*** Inbox
CcRFAdmin via aforbes.com Thu, Jan 7, 1:58 PM (6 days ago) to me
Thank you for your enquiry.
This is an automated response from Alexander Forbes acknowledging receipt of your e-mail.
We endeavor to attend to your query within 3 working days.
Our office hours are from 08:00 am to 05:00 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
NOTE: The disclaimers at https://www.alexanderforbes.co.za/email-legal-notice apply to this email and attachments. Should you not have Web access, send an email to *** and a copy will be sent to you..
Admin via aforbes.com Thu, Jan 7, 1:58 PM (6 days ago) to me
Thank you for your enquiry.
This is an automated response from Alexander Forbes acknowledging receipt of your e-mail.
We endeavor to provide a response within 3 working days
Please note that ALL Withdrawal Claims Take 4 - 6 Weeks to finalise provided that your Last contribution has been received and allocated, Your tax affairs are in order and the bank validation passes.
Please note that ALL Switch Forms must be sent directly to ***
Please note that ALL Divorce Order Claim Queries must be sent directly to ***
For information on how the Coronavirus may affect your retirement fund saving, please visit the Alexander Forbes website - www.alexanderforbes.co.za – AF Online and the AF Mobile to view the 6 March 2020 member communication – “The coronavirus and your retirement fund savings”.
For security purposes, The Contact Centre does not provide any Fund values and We encourage All Active members to login / register on the AFonline Platform for Fund Values.
Our office hours are from 08:00 am to 05:00 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
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katlego osborne <***> Fri, Jan 8, 10:37 AM (5 days ago) to Admin
so if you app**** on the end of september dont you think 4 - 6 weeks has long passed.
ID Number Inbox
Admin via aforbes.com Mon, Jan 11, 10:09 AM (2 days ago) to me
Good Day
Thank you for contacting the Alexander Forbes Helpdesk.
Kindly confirm your ID number so as to enable me to assist with the query below.
Regards
Leandra Jood
Alexander Forbes Client Interaction Centre l FINANCIAL SERVICES
Tel +***1 l Fax +***1 l ***
Alexander Forbes Financial Services l +***0 l PO Box 652071, Benmore, 2010, South Africa l Alexander Forbes Place, 115 West Street, Sandown Co. Reg. No. *** l FAIS Licence No.1177 l An authorised financial services provider l www.alexanderforbes.co.za
------------------- Original Message ------------------- From: *** Received: Fri Jan 08 2021 10:37:55 GMT+0200 (South Africa Standard Time) To: (AF) Admin Subject: Re: Automatic reply: Employer pension and provident Fund Enquiry for Claim No:***
so if you app**** on the end of september dont you think 4 - 6 weeks has long passed.
On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:58 PM Admin <***> wrote: Thank you for your enquiry.
This is an automated response from Alexander Forbes acknowledging receipt of your e-mail.
We endeavor to provide a response within 3 working days
Please note that ALL Withdrawal Claims Take 4 - 6 Weeks to finalise provided that your Last contribution has been received and allocated, Your tax affairs are in order and the bank validation passes.
Please note that ALL Switch Forms must be sent directly to ***
Please note that ALL Divorce Order Claim Queries must be sent directly to ***
For information on how the Coronavirus may affect your retirement fund saving, please visit the Alexander Forbes website - www.alexanderforbes.co.za – AF Online and the AF Mobile to view the 6 March 2020 member communication – “The coronavirus and your retirement fund savings”.
For security purposes, The Contact Centre does not provide any Fund values and We encourage All Active members to login / register on the AFonline Platform for Fund Values.
Our office hours are from 08:00 am to 05:00 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays.
NOTE: The disclaimers at https://www.alexanderforbes.co.za/email-legal-notice apply to this email and attachments. Should you not have Web access, send an email to *** and a copy will be sent to you..
NOTE: The disclaimers at https://www.alexanderforbes.co.za/email-legal-notice apply to this email and attachments. Should you not have Web access, send an email to *** and a copy will be sent to you.. ...
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katlego osborne <***> Mon, Jan 11, 10:18 AM (2 days ago) to Admin
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Kindly note the email trail Attention: Mpho
katlego osborne <***> Attachments 9:57 AM (6 hours ago) to Customer
Hi Mpho
Kindly note attached email trail between Nicole Thaver and your finance specialist ****ha.
Kind regards
katlego Attachments area
RE: Kindly note the email trail Attention: Mpho RMU-547 CRM:*** M***3 Inbox
Customer Complaints Office 2:48 PM (1 hour ago) to me
Good Day Katlego
Thank you for your patience.
Please be informed that we have received confirmation from our team that the claim is currently in process and we have requested that the claim to be expedited .
The following steps will be taken to ensure to finalise your claim:
· We have requested for our team to applying Tax with SARS which will take 24/72hrs depending if there are not issues
· Once feedback is received from SARS we will process the payment which will take 3 to 5 working days to be finalised
A full investigation was conducted and we will look at all service failures and ensure that our corrective action process will be followed internally.
Kindly take note, I will keep you updated should there be any delays.
Kind Regards
Mpho Mohlabi l Client Liaison Officer l Customer Experience l Group Shared Services l FINANCIAL SERVICES
Tel +***6 l Sharecall ***l Fax +***5 l ***
Alexander Forbes Financial Services (Pty) Ltd | +***0 | PO Box 787240, Sandton, 2146, South Africa | Alexander Forbes, 115 West Street, Sandown
At Alexander Forbes, our clients are important to us and I am sorry to learn that you’re dissatisfied with our service. Thank you for taking time to bring this to our attention.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your complaint and apologies for the inconvenience caused.
We will investigate your query and provide feedback with the contact details provided.
Kind Regards
Client services
At Alexander Forbes, our clients are important to us and I am sorry to learn that you’re dissatisfied with our service. Thank you for taking time to bring this to our attention.
We hereby acknowledge receipt of your complaint and apologies for the inconvenience caused.
We will investigate your query and provide feedback with the contact details provided.
Kind Regards
Client services
You want to think that I should have investment confidance from your financial services that you offer still giving me this type of feedback where a claims department that has resposibility in processing peoples hard earned money to this ********* lack of quality assurances and data integrity of claims made by claimants after being taken back and forth this is type of confirmations you should be requesting from me at this time of a complaint...Financial Services bull****
Confirmation of tax number Complaint RMU-547 CRM:***
Inbox
Shamiela Johr <***>
8:50 AM (30 minutes ago)
to me, Customer
Dear Katlego
The tax number we use to apply for tax was ***. SARS informed that this number is incorrect.
Please confirm if we can re-apply for tax with tax nr ***.
Kind regards
Shamiela Johr l Manager Complaints: Group Complaints
Tel +***6 l ***
Alexander Forbes Financial Services (Pty) Ltd l +27 *** l PO Box 787240, Sandton, 2146, South Africa l 115 West Street, Sandown
Co. Reg. No. *** l FAIS Licence No.1177 l An authorised financial services provider l www.alexanderforbes.co.za
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katlego osborne <***>
9:01 AM (19 minutes ago)
to Shamiela
Dear Shamiela
Kindly note my tax number that is being used by me.
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I hope that you able to confirm everything on your side apologies to you, but the level of professionalism in your institution leave a lot to be desired indeed.
kind regards
Shamiela Johr
9:06 AM (14 minutes ago)
to Customer, me
Dear Katlego
Thank you for the confirmation , I have sent this to our claims team who will re-submit to SARS. SARS will provide feedback by Monday as this is a re-submission.
I will provide you with feedback on Monday. I can understand your frustration.
Regards,
Shamiela
katlego osborne <***>
9:14 AM (7 minutes ago)
to Shamiela
Good day Dysfunctional Company
I won't thank anyone for bad service i have endure with this claim turns to complaint turns to level of one blunder to the another everyday more specially the claims department the is no data integrity before submissions to SARS what a high grade of incompetence the claims department it means the company lacks good ethical quality assurance team if they misses this level of professionalism.
What a week that Alexander Forbes has put me through of some change of a claim.
Kind regards
Disgruntled Claimant
Just keep on viewing your companys level of disrespect towards me and my fellow african investors in your instituation.
You want to think that I should have investment confidance from your financial services that you offer still giving me this type of feedback where a claims department that has resposibility in processing peoples hard earned money to this ********* lack of quality assurances and data integrity of claims made by claimants after being taken back and forth this is type of confirmations you should be requesting from me at this time of a complaint...Financial Services bull****
Confirmation of tax number Complaint RMU-547 CRM:***
Inbox
Shamiela Johr <***>
8:50 AM (30 minutes ago)
to me, Customer
Dear Katlego
The tax number we use to apply for tax was ***. SARS informed that this number is incorrect.
Please confirm if we can re-apply for tax with tax nr ***.
Kind regards
Shamiela Johr l Manager Complaints: Group Complaints
Tel +***6 l ***
Alexander Forbes Financial Services (Pty) Ltd l +27 *** l PO Box 787240, Sandton, 2146, South Africa l 115 West Street, Sandown
Co. Reg. No. *** l FAIS Licence No.1177 l An authorised financial services provider l www.alexanderforbes.co.za
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katlego osborne <***>
9:01 AM (19 minutes ago)
to Shamiela
Dear Shamiela
Kindly note my tax number that is being used by me.
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I hope that you able to confirm everything on your side apologies to you, but the level of professionalism in your institution leave a lot to be desired indeed.
kind regards
Shamiela Johr
9:06 AM (14 minutes ago)
to Customer, me
Dear Katlego
Thank you for the confirmation , I have sent this to our claims team who will re-submit to SARS. SARS will provide feedback by Monday as this is a re-submission.
I will provide you with feedback on Monday. I can understand your frustration.
Regards,
Shamiela
katlego osborne <***>
9:14 AM (7 minutes ago)
to Shamiela
Good day Dysfunctional Company
I won't thank anyone for bad service i have endure with this claim turns to complaint turns to level of one blunder to the another everyday more specially the claims department the is no data integrity before submissions to SARS what a high grade of incompetence the claims department it means the company lacks good ethical quality assurance team if they misses this level of professionalism.
What a week that Alexander Forbes has put me through of some change of a claim.
Kind regards
Disgruntled Claimant
Just keep on viewing your companys level of disrespect towards me and my fellow african investors in your instituation.
Shamiela Johr | 9:39 AM (13 minutes ago) | |
to me
Dear Katlego The claims team reverted and informed that the number provided is incorrect, it needs to start with 0,1,2,3 and 9. Please advise?
katlego osborne <***> | 9:48 AM (4 minutes ago) | |
to Shamiela
Dear Shamiela That number tax is my current tax number being used by my current employer.Please find a freakin way to obtain that information because i don't know any other tax number from the one I gave you.This is turning out to be busll**** now one incompetence afte another.
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Shamiela Johr | 9:39 AM (13 minutes ago) | |
to me
Dear Katlego The claims team reverted and informed that the number provided is incorrect, it needs to start with 0,1,2,3 and 9. Please advise?
katlego osborne <***> | 9:48 AM (4 minutes ago) | |
to Shamiela
Dear Shamiela That number tax is my current tax number being used by my current employer.Please find a freakin way to obtain that information because i don't know any other tax number from the one I gave you.This is turning out to be busll**** now one incompetence afte another.
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