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Approaching my creditors after redundancy and Sainsburys Bank most unhelpful
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illuminate
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I was made redundant at Christmas from a very well paid job.
Plenty of debts but all manageable up to that point.
Done what I believed to be the correct thing by approaching my creditors BEFORE direct debits started bouncing and bank charges could exacerbate the problem.
All have been most helpful, agreeing to freeze payments and interests for various periods of time until my circumstances change.
Sainsburys however, with whom I have a credit card, flatly refused to do anything until AFTER I fall into arrears. Brilliant eh !?!
Yet to approach the utility companies. Given that that isn't a debt, what assistance might I expect if any ?
Plenty of debts but all manageable up to that point.
Done what I believed to be the correct thing by approaching my creditors BEFORE direct debits started bouncing and bank charges could exacerbate the problem.
All have been most helpful, agreeing to freeze payments and interests for various periods of time until my circumstances change.
Sainsburys however, with whom I have a credit card, flatly refused to do anything until AFTER I fall into arrears. Brilliant eh !?!
Yet to approach the utility companies. Given that that isn't a debt, what assistance might I expect if any ?
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illuminate wrote: »I was made redundant at Christmas from a very well paid job.
Plenty of debts but all manageable up to that point.
Done what I believed to be the correct thing by approaching my creditors BEFORE direct debits started bouncing and bank charges could exacerbate the problem.
All have been most helpful, agreeing to freeze payments and interests for various periods of time until my circumstances change.
Sainsburys however, with whom I have a credit card, flatly refused to do anything until AFTER I fall into arrears. Brilliant eh !?!
Yet to approach the utility companies. Given that that isn't a debt, what assistance might I expect if any ?
What is your redundancy package0 -
Redundancy = zero.
Let me go 4 days short of the required 2 years. I was fully "unioned up". They did it by the book.0 -
illuminate wrote: »Redundancy = zero.
Let me go 4 days short of the required 2 years. I was fully "unioned up". They did it by the book.0 -
illuminate wrote: »
Yet to approach the utility companies. Given that that isn't a debt, what assistance might I expect if any ?
Water can be turned quarterly.
With the energy company - I remember getting a month's payment holiday before I started a worse case repayment plan last year so should be something for you.
Paid £141 for 6 months and now received a your payment now decreasing to £83 letter so it can be sorted. Even then I remember them offering longer repayment plans and the DCA just handing me back to the energy company no trouble.0
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