Did you know water companies can take money direct from benefit?

SuziQ

In my experience water companies take no prisoners with non-payers. I had a problem where essex and suffolk water mistakenly told me I hadn't paid my DDR. When I phoned up to sort it out the operator was so sarcastic I eventually put the phone down on him. I gave it a few days to cool off (after all I had the proof I had paid it) and I recieved in that short time a letter saying that they had applied for a CCJ if I didn't immediately pay the full amount. I had to pay the money to the court because of the time scale involved and that included a fee for court solicitor etc-nearly doubling the debt. I have been trying to get this sorted since November as I feel they should compensate me by repaying the court costs,I was never in arrears at all it was their error. In future I will try to pay in full as I have found to my cost that they will take immediate action if they think you have defaulted in any way.

savemoney

There a list of some trust funds below

http://www.ywct.org.uk/usefullinks/index.html

socrates

Water Companies CANNOT cut you off!

Under any circumstances

mouseymousey99

Not at the moment, but AW is trying to introduce 'trickle' meters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7829364.stm