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Johannes A

1 reviews | Active since Jun 2018

22 Apr 2024, 12:03

Worst service ever

I was contacted by a partner company of Alex forbes about my previous company's provident find that I never claimed. I filled in all the paperwork and submitted it and end of Oct 2023 they sent me confirmation that it would take 3 months for me to receive my payout. Because of the amount of time I almost forgot about it but when I remembered in March 2024, I checked back and saw it had been more than 3 months. For the last almost month and a half i have been phoning atleast once a week, just to be told they don't know why it has not been processed yet, they will escalate and give me feedback withing 48 hours, then I don't hear jack from them untill I call for feedback, in which case I get told EXACTLY the same thing again. The last 2 weeks I've been phoning them almost every single day just to be told the same nonsense. Last week I checked if I ever received anything from them through email that I maybe missed and saw something from them but it was addressed to and relating to a claim of another person. In the mail they said they couldn't link the person's employment. I noticed this was not for me after responding to the mail and asking why the call center couldn't give me this info long ago already. When noticing it wasn't even my info and documents on the mail, I called the call center who said they apologize and it was a mistake and that all my stuff was fine and payment will be processed the next day. The next day I decided to just check in, in which case I was informed there was some kind of system error which caused them NOT to pay my funds but the administrator or some other useless person will call me during the day or email me to explain what went wrong. That was early last Friday. I'm still waiting for ANY kind of feedback. The person I was speaking to over email, I had informed them that the incorrect person's details that they had sent to me is a breach of the POPI act but I won't go into it, they must just finalize my stuff and after I told them that, I have not heard from them either. I honestly don't know what I stand to do.

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Replies (3)
Alexander Forbes Financial Services
Alexander Forbes Financial Services's reply22 Apr 2024, 12:11
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Dear Johannes,
 
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 the 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
Customer Insights and Escalations 
JA
Johannes A's update05 May 2024, 17:07
Reviewer Update
After posting this I still waited about a week to finaly get my money. I worked for my previous employer for a couple of years, yes my salary was low but the amount I finally got was R310. For years of service and over 10 years of the money staying in your accounts for which I believe your company would be getting some kinds of interest. The complaints agent who was dealing with me, I contacted her again after receiving the payment inquiring how it was possible that the amount could be so low and as to why my claim had to be sent for tax 2 times when the amount is so low and I'm still waiting for a response for quite a few days now. Looking at how many bad service queries have been posted after mine I honestly can't believe this company has not been closed by some kind of governing entity. This company cares nothing for their clients.
Alexander Forbes Financial Services
Alexander Forbes Financial Services's reply06 May 2024, 11:36
Official
Dear Johannes,

Please be advised that one of our specialists will contact you shortly.

Kind Regards
Customer Insights and Escalations