Please help

RedCola

I am in the process of paying off my debts. I am paying a couple at a time, before moving to the next ones.

This morning I received a letter which stated it was an 'order for recovery of award'. What does this mean please?

RedCola

Also to add, at the bottom of the letter it says this is form N322A ?

RedCola

Please, if anyone has any advice on this? I'm very worried about it and what it means.

MarkSimms

An order for recovery will be issued if you do not pay a Charge Certificate that you receive. You will receive a Charge Certificate if you do not appeal or pay. A Charge Certificate increases the original penalty charge by 50% and allows 21 days for payment, beginning with the date of posting?

Grumpelstiltskin

Who did the letter come from?

RedCola

The letter came from the County Court

timbstoke

What does it relate to? [strike]It'll almost certainly be either Council Tax or a parking fine. If it's a parking fine and this is the first you've heard of it, get over to the Parking forum and they'll walk you through a statutory declaration. If it's council tax then I'm not sure what the process is, but I imagine it's more complex since CT isn't something that you would be unaware of. [/strike] Edit: OP has a duplicate thread suggesting it's a HB overpayment.

Either way, the end result is that this bill has just jumped the queue to the top of your list of things to deal with.

Grumpelstiltskin

So what was the debt for?

timbstoke

OPs duplicate thread suggests it was an overpayment of HB. In which case, this is now the number one debt to clear, and OP needs to contact the HB people and reach an agreement to pay.

OP, don't worry too much - the OfR means this one is further along the line than your other debts, and needs to be prioritised, but as long as you agree repayments and stick to them, there's no reason for it to escalate to bailiffs.

RedCola

Thank you for all the replies. I'm sorry about the brief, non informative start to this thread ( I had a clingy toddler and trying to get ready for school run etc etc)
Its for overpayment of Housing Benefit, from a previous County. I don't have the money to pay off in one, and was panicking when I got the letter, that they would send bailiffs round here.
Feel a bit better after reading the replies, still about worried about how to go about it all though. The letter had no details on what I should do next, or what the next step will be.

Sazzie23

RedCola wrote: »

Thank you for all the replies. I'm sorry about the brief, non informative start to this thread ( I had a clingy toddler and trying to get ready for school run etc etc)
Its for overpayment of Housing Benefit, from a previous County. I don't have the money to pay off in one, and was panicking when I got the letter, that they would send bailiffs round here.
Feel a bit better after reading the replies, still about worried about how to go about it all though. The letter had no details on what I should do next, or what the next step will be.

I'd ring the court to ask what to do, find staff are often really helpful if you fess up that you don't know what to do. Defo need to take some action, maybe get to CAB ASAP.