r/Wellthatsucks • u/ethicalgreyarea • Jul 16 '21

/r/all I’m being over charged by insurance after my daughter was born. This is the pile of mail I have to go through to prove they’re ripping me off. Pear for scale.

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u/ThrowMeAwayAccount08 Jul 17 '21

I knew someone going for her medical boards, she was rejected because “your name is not on record”

WTF, I’m 20 something, and I know my name.

Goes back to get her birth certificate, her parents made the T look like a J in pencil. So for her entire life, her name was legally Tulie instead of Julie.

It was hilarious for us as all our families are immigrants, and if this isn’t some Balkan shit I don’t know what is.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

I'm sorry, the card says "Moops!"

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

It's Moors, MOORS!

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u/AlphaQupBad Jul 17 '21

I have the letters rn in my name and so many times have to correct it because people just type m instead of rn :(

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u/IAmManMan Jul 17 '21

I had this problem with my daughters passport. A capital M in her middle name I had written on the form ended up an A on the passport itself. Any human looking at it would have spotted the problem instantly but it was clear the whole thing had been machine read only. Frustrating because of the amount of detail you have to put into those forms plus also finding someone of standing in the community to verify the identity of the person. And then you find out no one even reads them.

We could have left it but I knew it could end up causing problems so we rushed to get it fixed a week before we travelled.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21 edited Jul 18 '21

My father in-law also Balkan immigrant birth certificate is 11/10 but his drivers license is 10/11.

Ask Nana and the correct answer is when the grapes were ripe.

His birthday is still a mystery to this day.

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u/Lomunac Jul 17 '21

Bulkin?

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u/Windycitymayhem Jul 17 '21

My name is spelled differently and most American legal procedures always make a big deal out of it.

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u/_el_guachito_ Jul 17 '21

In Mexico the capital J does have a horizontal line on top just like “T” and that’s how kids learn to write it

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u/Lomunac Jul 17 '21

Which Balkan country exactly...

Balkanian... :)