My OH fell for a scam

denibabe

wow this read is unbelievable from a scam to low income ,what next the other persons misses scammed the housing lol.

Caroline73_2

Sorry I have digressed from the original post but I think that ILW had it spot on the the OP's other half may not be giving the full story, not necessarily intentionally though.

lavandergirl_2

BlueAngelCV wrote: »

According to the NHS website £15,000.00 for nurse seems about right

http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/Default.aspx?Id=766

That is just a banding for employees of the NHS.
A Registered Nurse usually starts with Band 5

never-in-doubt

terryw wrote: »

I am perplexed about the following

"the council are evicting her for not paying back the extra money that housing benefit have been giving her, even though she was told that she updated the housing benefit folks that her situation has changed as she is working - they of course didn't reflect this on the system and is now facing the eviction."

The question of eviction will not be taken by the HB section of the council. The question of eviction proceedings will be the Rent section. It looks as though your girlfriend has been issued with eviction proceedings for non-payment of rent, but at the same time she has been overpaid housing benefit for some reason and the HB section are asking for this back. I think that you will find that these are two separate issues and the eviction proceedings are not for the reason you've stated.

Just to clarify, HB do chase outstanding overpayments via their recoveries dept (all councils have one, different names). They used to be called EMO's (Estate Management Officers) but when the LA's re-graded a couple of years ago all local collections went internal, some councils even started to outsource to ALMO's.

In the case of the OP, they cannot and do not just threaten evection - it is a very long and drawn out process that takes months, not days/weeks but months (at least 9 in the case of no rent and possibly never in the case of overpayments as they would seek legal action for fraud in this case). If they issued these threats all the time then the local counsellor would never have a minute to himself because the norm is to run to your local counsellor.

I suspect your OH is not being entirely honest or you're being ambiguous to the truth - however for clarity your OH will not be evicted and she needs to contact the enforcement dept (whoever wrote the letter to her - not HB) and explain to them what has happened. As she has now paid 2 grand they will not pay it back to her and they say pay us weekly, they'll simply write the debt off with it.

Regards to Western Union, sorry but there has been news story after news story and if she is a nurse, no disrespect, common sense prevails and only someone lacking basic IQ would send money to Western Union for a loan! That is just bonkers and my 12 year old wouldn't even fall for that - sorry to sound harsh but i'd certainly not want her treating me at hospital if this is how she thinks business is done in the UK? She must have seen the news etc regards to these scams, they've been never-ending for the last 5 years.......

Charlie1986

A fully qualified nurse is band 5 which starts at £20,000. Im a band 3 health care assistant and i'm on £15,000