Under charged for nursery fees

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

OP it’s best to offer them something, if you can’t afford £1000 a month that’s understandable, doubtful they will agree to 50p a week so make a fair offer based upon what you can pay. 

If they go to court and you show you offered a fair amount but they declined the court won’t look upon the nursery favourably.

If you can’t agree anything with them it might be wise paying something weekly anyway, £25 a week would clear £3000 in 30 months for example. Again this would show despite not being able to come to an agreement you have done something to clear the debt. 

The other option is to offer a lump sum, say £2000 to have it done and dusted. I understand that’s a lot of money but it might save you in the long run, if you have any family or life long friends who can help that might be a solution but please don’t borrow money from unknown people or people you sort of know, even neighbours or other parents, etc, as it could cause you a lot of problems  

born_again

storybookgirl said:

No, I don't want the children to continue at the nursery.  We're moving out of the area in July and will be attending a new nursery at that point.

The bill is correct as per the contract but I questioned whether the invoices were correct and was told they were.  Because of this I didn't save any additional money in case this happened.

I'm on a very tight budget and I would have budgeted for the fees.  Now with paying the correct fees I truly cannot afford the additional debt.

I've gone back to them to say that I can't afford the £1000 a month they are asking for.  I just don't have that. 

So you knew the amount being charged in total was wrong, just questioned the 2 invoices.
How long have they been issuing incorrect invoices?
How long have you children been going? As £3K is a heck of a amount, given you knew the amount due compared to the invoice amount only being £4 out on 2 invoices.

£3K @ £4 a month is 750 months or 62.5 years...

Something does not add up here 🤷‍♂️

sheramber

born_again said:

storybookgirl said:

No, I don't want the children to continue at the nursery.  We're moving out of the area in July and will be attending a new nursery at that point.

The bill is correct as per the contract but I questioned whether the invoices were correct and was told they were.  Because of this I didn't save any additional money in case this happened.

I'm on a very tight budget and I would have budgeted for the fees.  Now with paying the correct fees I truly cannot afford the additional debt.

I've gone back to them to say that I can't afford the £1000 a month they are asking for.  I just don't have that. 

So you knew the amount being charged in total was wrong, just questioned the 2 invoices.
How long have they been issuing incorrect invoices?
How long have you children been going? As £3K is a heck of a amount, given you knew the amount due compared to the invoice amount only being £4 out on 2 invoices.

£3K @ £4 a month is 750 months or 62.5 years...

Something does not add up here 🤷‍♂️

£4 was the underpayment on one child's fees but fees for the other child were not charged so the underpayment is for both set of fees.

unholyangel

sheramber said:

born_again said:

storybookgirl said:

No, I don't want the children to continue at the nursery.  We're moving out of the area in July and will be attending a new nursery at that point.

The bill is correct as per the contract but I questioned whether the invoices were correct and was told they were.  Because of this I didn't save any additional money in case this happened.

I'm on a very tight budget and I would have budgeted for the fees.  Now with paying the correct fees I truly cannot afford the additional debt.

I've gone back to them to say that I can't afford the £1000 a month they are asking for.  I just don't have that. 

So you knew the amount being charged in total was wrong, just questioned the 2 invoices.
How long have they been issuing incorrect invoices?
How long have you children been going? As £3K is a heck of a amount, given you knew the amount due compared to the invoice amount only being £4 out on 2 invoices.

£3K @ £4 a month is 750 months or 62.5 years...

Something does not add up here 🤷‍♂️

£4 was the underpayment on one child's fees but fees for the other child were not charged so the underpayment is for both set of fees.

I don't think either of you are correct tbh. 

OP hasn't ever told us how much the undercharge was, for child 1 or child 2. The £4 was a underpay by the OP rather than an undercharge by the nursery.

The OP has also said she paid the missing £4's as soon as they made OP aware, so that issue would appear to be resolved and not part of the current outstanding amount. 

Ergates

I'd think a reasonable *minimum* monthly repayment amount would be the amount of the monthly underpayment.

TELLIT01

How long was the underpayment going on for?  £3000 underpayment not being noticed by either the OP or the nursery seems very odd.

k3lvc

TELLIT01 said:

How long was the underpayment going on for?  £3000 underpayment not being noticed by either the OP or the nursery seems very odd.

Esp seeing as OP in another post is quoting paying c.£400pm for nursery fees