Extortionate Bailiffs

bris

The Bailiffs are only instructed after it's been to court and not before. They always send out letters giving you the chance to pay, and then the papers telling you it's going to court. Somewhere down the line you either ignored them or moved and they had to serve notice at your last known address.

Bailiffs charges are fixed and will continue to mount up depending on what steps they need to take to recover the money. They are unscrupulous, but the point remains that they will have tried to contact you on a number of occasions.

arcon5

Something doesn't seem quite right here.

Can you list a series of events trying to keep the issues of council tax arrears and the eviction seperate? Unless they are linked in which case please clarify the situation?

Luffy321

I hadnt paid my council tax for November and December last year.

With no notice, the council sent me a letter saying I owed X and that it was deferred to bailiffs to collect.

Since January I have been paying council tax normally and also paying bayliffs on a monthly installment.

I missed one payment to the bailiffs in May but paid May and June installment in full (as agreed when I said I would be late on one payment) on the 26th.

What I am disputing is the extra £130 incur I have caused by defaulting even though I never defaulted and paid them as agreed with the bailiffs. The letter/enforcement notice arrived today and took me by surprised because as far as I knew I was up to date and had not defaulted as the bailiffs now seem to be arguing.

neilmcl

Either tell them to accept the repayment as is, without charge, or demand to have the debt passed back to the council. In fact contact the council themselves and deal directly with them. It seems by your posts that nothing has been to court so the bailiffs are acting as agents for the council.

CIS

It seems by your posts that nothing has been to court so the bailiffs are acting as agents for the council.

The bailiff's can't act until the case has been court so it is safe to say the liability order has already been granted.

Matt_Fry

I found this to be very informative, albeit rather brutal in its advice. It has a checklist and resolution approach.

www.dealingwithbailiffs.co.uk

CIS

Parts of that site are misleading to say the least.

Luffy321

Guys, thanks for the advice. The problem is that they are saying that I defaulted on payment when I did not, since they were aware of payment arrangement (I have the reference number to prove it).

The way I see it, I had two more payments left and I would be done with them, and they just want to balloon costs as a means of extracting more revenue from me. In the scheme of it £258 is petty money but the idea is for you to remain on their books so they can extract more and more.

I going to speak to the managing director on Monday. If that doesnt go in a civilised manner, then I am going to raise bloody hell. Im going to pay them the remaining money as if I never incurred a debt. If they continue to bother me, Im going to get the council involved and ask for all necessary papers and documents just to be a pain in !!!. And if I am forced to pay this unnecessary fine, I am going to claw it back from the council anyway I can.

Even after all this, Im going to take some kind of action against the council. Obviously I should pay my council tax on time, but i still think it was unfair for them to give the debt to bailiffs after two months missed payments (without taking into account I have been paying promptly for 10 years beforehand) without any notice but a letter saying action has already been taken.

Anywho, thanks for the advice and info.

transient

I think people wanted clarity on how the eviction part comes into it if this is for Council Tax arrears

Dee_Tails

CIS wrote: »

Parts of that site are misleading to say the least.

I have just enjoyed a very good read of that site. why did you think it was misleading?