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Legal notice/final demand letter
rumred
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Not sure if this is in quite the right place.
I get home on Friday night to find a letter stating:
"Despite our previous reminders, payment of the amount £906.75 remains overdue... [edit] ...we shall hereby commence legal proceedings" from a debt collection agency acting on behalf of a former employer.
I have lived at my current address for 11 months and have never been sent any kind of reminder.
I worked for previous employer for about four years. I submitted several applications for posts within the organisation during the course of that employment, so they had access to my most up to date contact details, and I was never contacted by them with regard to this matter.
I was contacted by them once, in 2005 and I responded. It's a bit complicated but the order of events is something like:
Sep 05 I start work.
End of Sep 05 I get paid, think it's too much and contact payroll who agree it's too much.
End of Oct, get paid lesser rate.
End of Nov, get paid original pay that I got in Sep 05 - a new pay scale for staff was rolled out. Around this time, get a letter from ?HR saying, to the effect of "this is our second letter [I never got the first], you have been overpaid, contact us to sort overpayment". I phone the contact number and explain about yo-yo wages and say it looks like it evens out. Person on phone agrees and I hear no more.
Summer 07 I get a new job in a different department. New line manager is emailed re: my move and mentions that they have said I owe them money. We mutually agree that I will wait to hear from HR. Hear nothing. Not long after this, I am signed off by my GP for stress, unrelated to this issue.
Now: I get this letter!
I have left a message with the agency asking them to phone me and I will endeavour to get in contact with my local CRB when they open on Monday. I'm not handing any money over (not least because I can't!) but I wondered what peoples' experiences were of anything similar and how I deal with this agency if I end up speaking to them before the CAB?
I get home on Friday night to find a letter stating:
"Despite our previous reminders, payment of the amount £906.75 remains overdue... [edit] ...we shall hereby commence legal proceedings" from a debt collection agency acting on behalf of a former employer.
I have lived at my current address for 11 months and have never been sent any kind of reminder.
I worked for previous employer for about four years. I submitted several applications for posts within the organisation during the course of that employment, so they had access to my most up to date contact details, and I was never contacted by them with regard to this matter.
I was contacted by them once, in 2005 and I responded. It's a bit complicated but the order of events is something like:
Sep 05 I start work.
End of Sep 05 I get paid, think it's too much and contact payroll who agree it's too much.
End of Oct, get paid lesser rate.
End of Nov, get paid original pay that I got in Sep 05 - a new pay scale for staff was rolled out. Around this time, get a letter from ?HR saying, to the effect of "this is our second letter [I never got the first], you have been overpaid, contact us to sort overpayment". I phone the contact number and explain about yo-yo wages and say it looks like it evens out. Person on phone agrees and I hear no more.
Summer 07 I get a new job in a different department. New line manager is emailed re: my move and mentions that they have said I owe them money. We mutually agree that I will wait to hear from HR. Hear nothing. Not long after this, I am signed off by my GP for stress, unrelated to this issue.
Now: I get this letter!
I have left a message with the agency asking them to phone me and I will endeavour to get in contact with my local CRB when they open on Monday. I'm not handing any money over (not least because I can't!) but I wondered what peoples' experiences were of anything similar and how I deal with this agency if I end up speaking to them before the CAB?
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You should send the prove it letter, they need to get information from the company to prove the amount they say you owe is correct.
They can't charge you for debt collection as there is no contract for them to charge you, so you need a full breakdown of costs.
Migt be easier to get in touch with your employerAlthough no trees were harmed during the creation of this post, a large number of electrons were greatly inconvenienced.
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