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What if im off work ill?

hi there i was wondering if anyone can offer me some advice, i have recently had to take a week off work and so will be short in my wages. I currently have an IVA with baines and ernst/ blair endersby i was wondering if i contacted them do you think they would help me out and maybe let me miss my next payment or maybe reduce it ??

thanks

Mark

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  • best thing to do mark is call them and check
    dont know the iva customer number
  • taplady
    taplady Posts: 7,184 Forumite
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    When my DH was ill we arranged to miss a payment and the IP agreed for us to pay it back over the following 10 months on top of our usual payments - they wouldn't add it onto the end of the IVA so we had 10 months of higher payments which was hard but at least we kept the IVA going.
    Do what you love :happyhear
  • thanks for the replies, i contacted them and they have agreed for me to miss my next payment and they are adding it onto the end of the payments
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