Old electricity debt (allegedly)

apples76

My wife has just received a demand from a debt collector for several hundred pounds.

The debt is from a house she owned over 4 years ago and is dated from after we moved out (by weeks).

As far as we are concerned we cleared all outstanding bills at the time we moved.

Could someone please help, and advise on what we should do.


Thanks

fatbelly

Who's the debt collector? That will give us some idea of whether it's likely to be valid.

apples76

Hi,

Sorry for the delay, the letter is from Advantis Credit Ltd.

RAS

HAve you contact the originbal supplier and ensured that they have allocated the bill to the riught person?

And based on a message from George, utilities only have one year in which to chase a bill.

They updated the legislation for utility bills in the last few years.
If it was the company's error then they could reclaim back only 2 years. This was changed in 2007 to one year. I'll try to look out the link i saw for this.

http://www.consumerfocus.org.uk/en/c..._question.aspx

apples76

thanks for that RAS but the link isn't working. (will try and find the article)

Was waiting for advice from here before we contacted them.