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Benefits overpayments
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I asked them to explain the reasons why this was overpaid and they emailed back that it was too long ago and is now written off.
Moral of the story is, make sure they are serious before you pay.1 -
Brilliant well done for questioning it0
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What benefit was it? Given that there is no law that time bars benefits I assume you got lucky.
Well done!Proud to have dealt with our debtsStarting debt 2005 £65.7K.
Current debt ZERO.DEBT FREE0 -
I've had a couple of other nonsense demands for payment, one from a council for an address they invented and didn't exist and another for a mobile. phone for £600 for 3 days data, they admitted it was impossible then sold the debt to a debt company that chased me for a year and then sold it to another debt company.
The tactic of wasting their time until they see there's no profit in it and write it off seems to work.1
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