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Splitting the CAB board into sub-boards
Hi all After a suggestion made last week we’re planning to split the CAB board into four sub-boards, one for each of the current areas CAB covers. The current plan is to make the changes later this week and hopefully you’ll then be able to see more easily which topics are covered and which aren't, as well as helping the…
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Who should be kicked out of this council house?
I feel this matter is quite serious and should be addressed to my local council business assurance/fraud team. I have reason to suspect my father hasn't declared an occupant living at this address. I'm a 26 year old male living in a three bedroom house and paying rent, there are three registered occupants living here and…
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Returning Earrings
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Debenhams Sales Tactics
Hi Hoping for a little advice Re: Debenhams Sale, last weekend. I ordered some glasses online, to be collected in store. After payment was taken, I received an email, saying order was being processed and would be contacted shortly (18/11). On 19/11 received new email saying order had been cancelled- unable to fulfil,…
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is my son a british citizen?
hi me and the wife are both british born our oldest son was born in australia and we returned here when he was 3 months old.he had a british passport as a baby when we left oz. is he a british citizen or do we need to do any thing thanx
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Southern Electric gave me rebate by mistake... now they want it back
Hello all, some advice needed please... a brief synopsis I moved out of a property 7 months ago and gave a final meter reading. Some bright spark (;)) at SE decided this was too high, and amended the total I sent them on their system to something they thought was more appropriate. This triggered an automated rebate of…
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International Car Movement - refund?
Hello all, I paid to have a vehicle shipped to the US. However between paying for it and the date it was arranged to be shipped the vehicle was involved in an accident and was quite seriously damaged. I contacted the shipping company informing of this and that I wished to suspend the shipping until the vehicle was…
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HELP - Outstanding debt from previous tenant
Hi all......really need advice on the below!!! Basically just had letting agent email me to say British Gas have forcibly entered my property (empty now as not got a tenant) and changed the front lock. After speaking to British Gas they are chasing an unpaid bill for the period my ex tenant was in the property and state…
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Pension credit and council tax benefit
My husband is currently receiving pension credit but at the end of the month this is changing to state pension instead. It looks as though we will then lose the council tax benefits which is worth about £150pm. Can you help. We have savings of about £14000 and I earn about £750pm. Our savings won't last very long if we…
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My Rights as a Tenant
Hi Guys, Here's the suitation I've been living in my council flat for 2 years, and since day number one my flat has got serious damp coming in via the roof. I've reported it to the council so many times, and they just come back and say it condensation. But now I've literally got water dripping down off the ceiling in my…
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Landlord Won't Return Deposit
Hi all I have recently moved out of a rented property after being there for just over 6 years. The whole place was cleaned top to bottom before I moved. The landlord told me that the blinds and some carpets need replacing as they were old/dirty. The carpet in the hall was damaged near the door. The blinds were dirty. I…
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Debenhams Sales Tactics
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Health and Safety Laws Re Accident Book
Could someone help me with this, my daughter had an accident in a major department store. Staff where told, and acknowledged by the physical evdience of that happened. I was in shock and had a very very upset child, when i have spoke with various people re the accident i was told due to Health and Safety law this should…
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Fly Tipping Dispute
Hi, Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but hopefully it is. We moved house in March of this year, on the day we moved we left a small wooden shelf unit in the bin store, and contacted the council to arrange collection. Another resident noticed us leaving the unit, and demanded we take our rubbish with us,…
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Housing association refused my application to run a business from home??
Hi i want to run my own Cake Business from home and have the space to do so but after asking the Housing association if i could to this, it was a flat no! they said please read your tenancy agreement as it states no business's to be run from the property..and that was that! i am so upset as i have always dreamed of having…
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Fixed penalty notice
Hi, I received a fixed penalty notice yesterday under their description of littering. I tried to pay the fine to avoid the hassle of having to pay more if not paid in a certain amount of days. The FPN hadn't been updated on newham councils records yet. Which is when I noticed the mistake the enforcement officer had put on…
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conveyancing bill
Sale of my property and my intended purchase fell through due to my bungling Estate Agents. I was close to exchange on my flat but had not commenced any searches or anything on the house I intended to purchase. The solicitor has slapped me with a bill for £1730, saying she had done in fact carried out £2600 worth of work.…
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Default Notice for Early payment
I'm not entirely sure this is even Legal, but Natwest bank have issued (well, skipped the default notice, actually) a termination of account letter because i paid early! I have a payment plan that Natwest have agreed to and i have stuck to religiously and because i have been paying two or three weeks early, according to…
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Work problems
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Is my local/authority/coucil negligent
The flat upstairs from me has been empty for some time now, over 18 month ago someone went through the close loft and managed to get into the flat above me and stole the copper and at the same time flooded my house quite badly, that time the council gave me around £200 compensation(what a joke). Then in September the same…
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no benefits
my husband has been off work for some time after back surgery. he has certs from the gp stating he is unable to work, he was getting esa money but that stopped after a year. he has had a work medical assesssement and they state he is fit to work, albeit he gets no money whatsoever. we live on my wage which is the minimum…