Student fees agreed settlement.

halfabrian

My girlfriend left university a number of years ago and after leaving one home and another never got a court summons for fees owed after she left midway through a course due to a family death. She accepted that she had to pay but what was originally around 1000 became £2200 by the time it had been passed to a company called High Court Enforcement who despite their name appear to be simply debt collectors/bailffs with a scary name.

On my vague advice she spoke to the solicitors for the university directly and was told to email them a payment plan I said to offer £80 a month or £1,200 in one go which was around half the current debt.

Today have received a letter from HCE which states that "We note you have recently offered a full and final settlement of £1,200 direct to the Claimants solicitors. We can confirm the Claimants solicitors have advised the offer is acceptable on the agreement payment is received by 8th october and made through ourselves"

Should she do just that? Will they try and add on additional costs? Does paying them get them a bigger cut? Or is she best dealing with the universities solicitors directly.

Thanks.

halfabrian

I would really appreciate any help on this please.

Thanks.