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I Have Messed Up My Life Bigtime

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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    I think MU that this is absolutely the best thing for you at the moment - it is unsecured so even if things do go wrong, your house is not at risk, and you are back in control again.

    The rate is fine - you can overpay, or stash money away to pay off early etc and it is at an affordable monthly amount, so day to day living is not as difficult as it has been recently.

    Hopefully this will give you the "space" that you need to get on with your life - never forgetting the past, good, bad and indifferent, but allowing you to move on with your family to new, good things.

    Remember, you are in control now - this is no longer controlling you xx
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
    Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)
  • messedup_3
    messedup_3 Posts: 112 Forumite
    Hi Everyone..... Hope you're all OK and keeping your chins up....

    I wanted to ask a question, this is the last time I will use this post to post on.I will start a new one next time so you dont have to trawl thru it.

    I have got my loan now, and feel devastated inside about things still, but I am grateful .

    Anyway I recieved an email and a form from the financial ombudsman to put a complaint in with Lloyds about irresponsible lending etc (I asked 4 times for my overdrafts to be zeroed through phone bank etc....

    My question is I still bank with Lloyds as I find them otherwise OK and have used them for years, they have recently sorted me out in a big way, however I am by law entitled to complain (I dont like complaining , I just find it astounding they could lend so much online and through loans . Do they have any right to shut my bank account down once they recieve my complaint.

    Can anyone help.........I would hate to add more stress to my situation...

    thankyou once again......
  • Triker
    Triker Posts: 7,247 Forumite
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    Hi MU, Just wanted to say :wave: good to see you back here.

    My advice re Lloyds is; please do not think you have to be loyal to the bank, its their job to make as much money from people as possible and dare I say exploit vulnerable people when they need support not seeing it as a money making opportunity.


    If possible I would set up another account with someone else just for piece of mind.

    Complain away and good luck XX
    DFW Nerd 267. DEBT FREE 11.06.08
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    It matters not if you try and fail,
    And fail, and try again; But it matters much if you try and fail, And fail to try again.
  • LJD1_2
    LJD1_2 Posts: 2,173 Forumite
    Good luck with your complaint. It real is time that banks were more responsible lenders. I know people argue that you can always say no but sometimes you can't and they need to be accountable. Good luck xx
    January budget
    Nothing left!
  • PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ADVISE ME.

    I have been believe it or not at 38 yo diagosed with invasive brest cancer...I have a mastectomy on 9th and chemo I will be ill for a long time..what the hell do i do about my 2 loans...to all my many friends on here ...I am sorry to shock you....but what the hell.....I never saw this coming...
    No ppi as anyway the loans are that fresh they wouldnt stand WHAT WILL THE BNK DO....can they freeze interst and just accept 100 a month...for 6 months
    please help

    I am scared enough
  • I am working till 9th even tho I am rundown and my employer may or nor pay me...I am salaried ...I knwo he is on a tight budget and I have to have a plan. I wont lose my job but I wont have enough to pay my loans...I just wnated to work and pay them...I plan on going bak to work FINGERS CROSSED...mainn loan is TSB other one is NROCK
  • Just read your news and can only send you a huge hug and lots of love. I don't know what else to say. x
    Official DFW Nerd Club Member no:219
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  • Tustastic
    Tustastic Posts: 2,096 Forumite
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    So sorry to hear your serious health news. All the very best for getting through the op and treatment successfully.
    I think you need to tell the lenders what is going on ASAP and also check with outfits like the CAB about where you stand. Why not post your budget here - people may be able to advise and this is also the kind of information other people will need to be able to help you.
    Thinking of you.
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  • thankyou Dizzy ...I am distraught..got diagnosed last Monday...and only tonight I worry bout my debts.....I never in my deepest nightmares could have nitemared this. My consolidatio with tsb is only 2 months in...ANY ADVICE...do you think they will give me 6 months leniancy PLEASE HELP
  • MY BUDGET is very simplistic...save you trawling thru this post
    income appx 1200

    loan 130 loan 347 food 120 ccard 100

    forget car I will take it off the road....but everything else apart from bills was used with my disposable....just worried bout loans...
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