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Never received tickets or reminders...but huge fines and with bailiffs. Help!
Hello,
Would be grateful for any words of advice on this situation.
We moved house in February this year and a few weeks after I sent off, what I thought was, the change of address form to the DVLA.
Just over a week ago I received an envelope of post forwarded from our old address and within there were 8 or 9 letters informing that I hadn't paid a parking ticket etc etc.
I spoke to the council and told them that a) I had never seen the parking tickets and that this, truthfully, was the first I'd heard. Explained that everything had obviously gone to old address-they confirmed that the DVLA were giving them my old address.
I have since found out that 5 tickets "are with the bailiffs" and there are a couple more waiting to go. Hundreds of pounds worth.
The tickets are definitely for my car but not when I was driving it.
The chap I spoke to at the council informed me that I needed to speak to the court and make an "out of time declaration"-just received those forms this morning and will be sending them back to the court and tell them what happened (to be fair the council officer was a great help and very reasonable about the whole). I explained to the council that I obviously wasn't trying to avoid payment as I had called them and given them my correct details!!
I spoke to the DVLA-who were spectacularly unhelpful and abrasive-who told me that I'd sent them the wrong form "obviously" (described the form and apparently I sent the part of the log book I'm supposed to keep!!).
So, eventually-sorry for long post, my question. This is a large debt-£8/900 and I do not have anywhere near that amount of money. Do I have grounds to offer a repayment schedule that I can afford? And, based on anyboy elses experience are they likely to accept?
Thanks in advance. Would be very grateful for any responses as this is a huge concern for me.
Re: Never received tickets or reminders...but huge fines and with bailiffs. Help!
At the Court hearing, you will be able to have your say and explain why you didn't
respond to any of the demands.
Then you will have the opportunity to say who was responsible for the tickets. And
if the Court decide that you are still liable for the payment [because the fines were incurred by a member of your family for example],as you will already have been asked to supply a Breakdown of your income and expenditure, the Court will arrive at
a total for the fines, possibly squashing some or all the bailiffs fees, and then
arriving at a repayment scheme with you that is acceptable to both you and them.
PS Don't get in a panic, the people presiding in the Court are sympathetic in these cases
and will try to help as much as they can.
Never received tickets or reminders...but huge fines and with bailiffs. Help!
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