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First Plus Interest Rate Rise

Hi,

I'm aware there are plenty of threads on First Plus already but can't find anything the same as this....

We took out a First Plus loan in 2007 and, somewhere around 2008/9, just as the BofE interest rates were dropping through the floor we received a letter from First Plus telling us that the rate on our loan was going up by 1%.

I know that FP are able to vary their interest rates to protect their profits or somesuch, but I believe the rules also state that they are only able to increase their rates by 2 x whatever the BofE does. To my mind this would mean that they were completely breaking the rules increasing the rates at a time when the BofE were reducing theirs.

Since that time, for a variety of reasons, I have got into real financial trouble which we are only just beginning to come through now. I can't lay all the blame at FP and their rate rise but the £50 or so a month it added to the loan certainly didn't help!

Is there anything at all I can do about this? I don;t even know where to start. It's always irked me thinking about this but I've only just started to think about doing anything now, mainly because I've been such a mess recently that I can only really start to think about it now.

Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rich
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