DMP Mutual Support Thread (Part 4)

Jvic28

markey77 wrote: »

There are 5 of us, me, OH and 3 very hungry boys!! Nappies and baby wipes take up roughly £10 of the budget straight away and we go though bread and milk like you wouldn't believe. About a loaf every 2 days and 3-4 pints of milk a day.

Ah...that makes sense then.

ald65

Hoping that someone here can help. DH being sent on a course with work and will be staying in a hotel.Will hotels in general accept a maestro debit card instead of credit card when booking in?

thanks

Jvic28

Yeh no problem. I've done it myself many times (pre DMP obviously as I now have an electron)

Rabbit-in-headlights

ANY_CHANCE wrote: »

Hello,

Does any one have a link for how much you are allowed to budget for cccs? eg for 1 person 35.00 per week etc

Thanks
AC X

Hi AC,

If you go onto the cccs website http://www.cccs.co.uk/ you can run the online remedy - if you put in a high figure it will prompt you with what they think is reasonable. You can over-ride it, if you need to, and save it and come back later, or not - it's up to you

It's great as it will ask you for all your income and expenditure without you having to think of everything! You can even accept whatever "remedy" they suggest online and do everything by post/email in many cases, if you prefer.

cheers,

Rabbit

sarriep

Well, made my first purchase with my Electron card at Tesco today and all ok! Was thinking of starting a thread showing which shops/ online retailers do/ do not accept Visa Electron - would that be useful? Might start it now...

Rabbit-in-headlights

Great idea, Sarriep! Let's hope the "do nots" list is a lot shorter than the "do's" :-)

Rabbit-in-headlights

Jvic28 wrote: »

For the 1st payment I don't think cccs mind if it's a couple of days late. However, are you in a position to pay it in a couple of days early. I paid my 1st payment using my online banking.

Hi Jvic, I'd lke to use my online banking to make my first cccs payment, just wondering how to find out the sort code? I have the account no. on the transcash slip they sent me but can't see a sort code?

cheers,

Rabbit

ianmak

Rabbit-in-headlights wrote: »

Hi Jvic, I'd lke to use my online banking to make my first cccs payment, just wondering how to find out the sort code? I have the account no. on the transcash slip they sent me but can't see a sort code?

cheers,

Rabbit

Assuming you have some form of card, is it not on there?

markey77

sarriep wrote: »

Well, made my first purchase with my Electron card at Tesco today and all ok! Was thinking of starting a thread showing which shops/ online retailers do/ do not accept Visa Electron - would that be useful? Might start it now...

That's a really good ides! Might save some of us having a red face in the shop lol!

sarriep

Here it is! Hope it's useful

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1171183

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