ERUDIO student loans help

What irritates me is that I have paid my ICR loan since I got it without fail, even when overseas. I've not tried to shirk my duty to repay it I have always deferred by MS loan, but genuinely for the first time I'm looking at this and thinking, 'what does it matter now if I bump them? I'm miles away and will be for the forseable future',

I'm really anxious about all this. Unlike most people here I did not find SLC or their annual deferment ritual a walk in the park at all. As an adult with autism and ADD I found the form and the requirement for stamps and supporting letters an organisational nightmare. I had only just succeeded in getting SLC to send someone round to coach me through the form for the first time last autumn. The reasonable adjustment that actually would have helped me was if they had said just send a letter, get it countersigned by your third party support and that will be fine. Ironically after reading this thread I learn that I could indeed have done that but SLC insisted it had to be their form and that year after year I should tramp down the benefits office (a sensory nightmare) to get the form stamped for a few quid of child benefit. So frankly to read all this about Etudio is making me really anxious and depressed and my deferment has another 7 months to go yet. On the basis that I cannot be treated worse than before, it seems Etudio cannot notify CRAs about my pre 1998 loans because although they legally can, that's definitely worse treatment so is excluded by the sale agreement? Can anyone suggest what I should do? I honestly don't want this debt collection shark to be handling (and sharing) info about my disabilities.

just keep emailing or twittering martin lewis, BIS, the guy at the independent who did the story last week, news papers/organaisations, MPs etc etc. The more people outside who know the problem, the more chance one of them will actually perform a serious investigation or speak to someone in government with gravitas to get it sorted. I cant stress how important it is to contact people with our stories. We dont know how many people actually have problems with this as forum posters arent in their thousands, so we have to speak out when we can. We have all already got the story to the BBC, MPs and other news outlets, so every individual with a gripe must contact someone outside the forums because we are all in this pathetically imposed boat together. Bombard twitter etc. Spread our concerns and encountered problems.

After a very exhausting fortnight, I've come to the conclusion I'm stressing it no more!
I've not commented for a week or so, as I've been writing to, emailing, and phoning government bodies, MPs, Erudio themselves and credit reference agencies. Every avenue a dead end and every answer to a question no more informative than anything the press has reported.
It has literally felt as if I have two jobs. Finish work every day and then work late into the night trying to root out the facts and just where we stand on everything. This is a situation I never ever expected to occur in my life, as I'm law-abiding and always play by the rules. I've known for 15 years the student loan needed to be paid off, but as I've always been under the earnings threshold (and still am) I've always deferred. I wasn't being dishonest and believe you me, if I could get a salary of over £28k I'd gladly start paying the loan back with knobs on!
Whenever I've spoken to Erudio I've been promised things verbally with a promise to back up in writing. The letters never get written. The emails never get answered. You call back to complain and they say sorry and promise to follow it up. And the circle begins again.
If you write to Erudio, special delivery, the letters are signed for at Rotherham, as required by Royal Mail, but there's never any come back.
When you phone to query it, they say they'll chase it up.
Whether it's smoke and mirrors, in a bid to stall us for time until our deferment periods are up, or if it's simply pure chaos and badly handled (I suspect a bit of both) we'll probably not know for sure until we're either deferred successfully (if entitled) or paying through our noses.
We know what it's like now. I was very amused by a comment on either this forum or one of the others (I'm flitting so frequently between them, I can't remember) which said "...phoned Erudio again today.... for a laugh".
Sadly it's not much of a laugh, but it's all laughable. Erudio's promises of 'fair processing' and dealing with us to the same standards SLC did are there to see in black and white. But either we're all dyslexic, or Erudio has a very sketchy picture of how the set up worked under SLC!
One thing I do know is I've sent off the form now, along with all they've asked for, pay slips, P60 etc. I'm just hoping Erudio and Experian's assurances that even if CRAs do find out we're seemingly all now very naughty little girls and boys, are correct and that they keep to their word.
It all seemed a bit more promising when Paul Lewis, on BBC Breakfast, told us to simply say we don't want grassing up!
Then within hours, our hopes were dashed by BIS and their sneaky little 'section 16'. And the subsequent reports by MSE seem to confirm this.
I despise the situation we're all in, but I don't completely blame Erudio or Arrow Global.
I think Danny Alexander is a sneaky little turd to be honest, who has a backbone made of Play-doh.
If these caveats and veiled threats of CRA slurs were always within reach of SLC, free for them to use as they felt fit, why the !!!!!!' beggary didn't they put them in force themselves, while they were dithering for the past 20 years about how to claw back cash from a student loans system they suddenly realised put their cash in jeopardy? If my suspicions are correct, it was far too easy for the government to shy away from acting the bully boy and flog off the portfolio and let someone else feast on us like vampires. Then BIS absolve themselves of any come back and say "Nowt to do with us guv!" Spineless!
As there's a direct debit in place which Erudio has told me I can't cancel, I've just signed and sent the forms. I know others have had cash taken while in deferment, but Erudio have assured me (verbally) this won't happen while in deferment. I'm too weary now to even argue they might be fibbing.
I've spoken to a colleague in the same boat as us and he says Erudio seem to be answering calls far, far faster now, are very apologetic and are no longer asking for a copy of a P60. Just the pay slips. They are also promising to send out letters, when requested, which set out to the borrower just what will be shared with CRAs and assurance it won't negatively affect credit reports.
I also know for a fact that Radio 4 is working on an extensive report about the situation for its 'You and Yours' consumer affairs programme. I sadly don't know its air date.
Anyway, let's hope, a year from now, we're all on good enough salaries to pay back the loans, or the fog has cleared and we can all see clearly where we stand if still entitled to defer. Good luck folks.