Help! Spent housing benefit repaying old debt

PETIE

Nada666 wrote: »

Of course you can, don't be preposterous. Do you really think anyone on benefits doesn't have to do that as a matter of course, anyway?

Six weeks to the end of March so £420 plus the balance of whatever he has left now. So that's £120 spare for six weeks. Yes, that has to include bills, too.

Do you seriously think that anyone on benefits does not frequently have to make do with living on a fiver's worth of food for the second week? Indeed, frequently, for longer than just that second week?

Single man living on his own, probably gets around £70 a week to pay bills and food, saving £300 on that in a few weeks is impossible

helping_hand2014

Poppie68 wrote: »

Sadly reporting people like this very rarely ends well for the person doing the 'grassing'...These type of scum pray on the weak and vulnerable and always have others looking out for them, unless you are a strong minded and practical person with the back up of a strong network its best to move on and learn from your mistake.....Someone will always bring scum down in time but it will be a strong minded person that does it and the OP seems to be in a bad place and needs to concentrate on getting out of this HB mess before it escalates.

the point i was making was if it was a debt company people should not feel threatened or bullied by any kind of debt company the reason they get away with this type of behaviour is because they dont get reported and are not held accountable for their actions.

the OP had mentioned they have a mental health issue and there are steps the debt agency should have taken for vulnerable people when it comes to these debt collection goons.

i can agree slightly with your post however people should not be put of reporting them as they have no right to threaten and bully anyone especially a vulnerable person im sure that breaks the code of practice when it comes to the collection of a debt

Nada666

PETIE wrote: »

Single man living on his own, probably gets around £70 a week to pay bills and food, saving £300 on that in a few weeks is impossible

Not every one can but it is perfectly feasible for many.

SnooksNJ

nannytone wrote: »

you haven't read my post properly, or have decided to mis interpret it.
finding an extra £300 in a 'few weeks' by eating less, while you're on benefit is impossible. most people get less than £100 a week.
pay their bills, and they're lucky to have £20 a week for food.
so even if they ate NOTHING it would take almost 4 months to save that amount.

A few weeks ago someone on these very boards said that £30K a year on benefits is pittance so based on that assumption I can understand why someone would feel it would be would be impossible to save any money and are lucky to have £20 a week in food.
But if I didn't pay taxes or commute everyday I think I could do it. If someone threatened to hurt me I would call the cops.

Ziggazee

Aww, isn't it nice that someone already living on handouts from the state can go running to them for further help when they f*ck up. No such help for us mere mortals that work for a living

rubytuesday

Ziggazee wrote: »

Aww, isn't it nice that someone already living on handouts from the state can go running to them for further help when they f*ck up. No such help for us mere mortals that work for a living

Try living with Bipolar Disorder then you might not be so smug!

helping_hand2014

Ziggazee wrote: »

Aww, isn't it nice that someone already living on handouts from the state can go running to them for further help when they f*ck up. No such help for us mere mortals that work for a living

working people get child benefit,working tax credits child tax credits, and even housing benefits if they are on a low income the majority of working people are subsidised by the taxpayer too not just people on benefits

people always seem to think and assume the tax they pay pays only for other peoples benefits which is not always the case

why dont you contact the government and moan as their ridiculous expenses their shofer driven cars expenses bonuses 4 bed houses they dont use lunches that are paid for paid for by the taxpayer

Poppie68

helping_hand2014 wrote: »

the point i was making was if it was a debt company people should not feel threatened or bullied by any kind of debt company the reason they get away with this type of behaviour is because they dont get reported and are not held accountable for their actions.

the OP had mentioned they have a mental health issue and there are steps the debt agency should have taken for vulnerable people when it comes to these debt collection goons.

i can agree slightly with your post however people should not be put of reporting them as they have no right to threaten and bully anyone especially a vulnerable person im sure that breaks the code of practice when it comes to the collection of a debt

Im assuming from what the OP said is that the debt was owed to a loan shark and while some people wouldn't think twice about reporting threats the OP doesn't strike me as someone who is capable of dealing with the consequences of that.

helping_hand2014

Poppie68 wrote: »

Im assuming from what the OP said is that the debt was owed to a loan shark and while some people wouldn't think twice about reporting threats the OP doesn't strike me as someone who is capable of dealing with the consequences of that.

no where in the post does the OP state is was a loan shark or a debt collection agency so assuming would not be the correct thing to do

however if it was debt company they need to be reported as stated in a previous post.

loan sharks are illegal and should also be reported but i do agrre that this could make things worse for the OP as that's how those kinds of people operate by bullying and scaring people

NYM

Posted by the OP,

...A debt from my past turned up demanding what was owed and was prepared to hurt me to get it....

I've no experience of Debt Collectors nor Loan sharks, but I doubt the former would use strong arm tactics but the latter is by definition, more likely to use the threat of violence to enforce payment.