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  1. @F18 the issue that may come up is that ECP will probably say that you have to submit it through their formal appeals process. ECP, like most of the PPCs, have it as a condition of submitting an appeal that you name the driver, otherwise they won't accept the appeal. On the ECP page you linked in Post #21 it says "Please review our FAQs before submitting an appeal", go to the FAQ about appeals and it says [my bold] "All correspondence must include the Parking Charge Notice reference number, your vehicle registration mark, your name, address and the name of the driver (if different) and any supporting evidence." That's one reason why we normally advise people never to appeal, it's how PPCs try to force you to reveal the driver when you aren't legally required to do so. You then lose important legal protections. (The other reason for not appealing is that they rarely accept them!)
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    You can complain to the NHS Trust that runs the hospital, either directly or contact their PALS service (Patient Advice and Liaison Service). Details will be on the hospital website. Compensation? Doubt it but you could ask if your injuries are serious enough to justify a personal injuries claim. If you are going to pursue this for money you need to get an independent medical reprot now to confirm the injuries you have suffered (which will need to be a medical report at your own expense).
  3. They have form for this HB. A few years ago there were lots of complaints about phone waiting times and the Parliament committee reviewing them told them they needed to dramatically reduce the number of callers waiting more than 20 minutes. HMRC were proud that a year later they had achieved this - by changing their phone system so that after 20 minutes callers just got cut off! Ultimately though this is all the result of years of government cuts to public services and a government obsession since 2010 with everything being "digital" irrespective of whether that is actually more efficient or whether people would in fact rather talk to a human being. HMRC have been forced to shed staff, or redirect them away from helping people, because of reduced funding. Real people on telephone helplines are expensive, chatbots are cheap. I appreciate none of this directly helps the OP @gerson but the background might be useful for others in the future.
  4. According to this article HMRC's cunning plan to avoid long waits to get through to them by phone is that they are going to close down the phonelines! https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/hmrc-to-close-phone-lines-over-summer-permanently/ar-BB1k9jw2
  5. For which debt has your car been clamped? You need to give us more specific information about why Marston (I think that's who you mean, nor Marsdon or Marsfon) have clamped your car. Has the debtor taken you to court and won judgement against you? It's not easy to work out from your post what has happened.
  6. To judge by media stories you were lucky to find a NHS dentist at all! The shortage of them probably does mean they can be picky about what they are willing to do, and they are independent businesses not NHS employees even when carrying out NHS dentistry. I've no personal experience but I suspect the reality is you do it his way or you'll end up with no NHS dentist at all and have to go back to private. As far as visits to the hygienist are concerned the NHS rules seem vague and open to interpretation. NHS funding covers "a scale and polish if clinically needed" but does that mean that routine hygienist visits are covered? I suspect not, scale and polsh is only covered if for clinical reasons it has to be done by the dentist not the hygienist, ie it needs the skills of a qualified dentist for reasons specific to your dental health. Understanding NHS dental charges - NHS (www.nhs.uk) Just my guess though, I'm not an expert on this. In theory there are various complaint procedures you could use but I suspect using them would result in the dentist refusing to have you as a patient any longer. It's the market place at work. Most dentists have new customers queuing to registered at the practice whereas we all know how hard it is for people to find an NHS dental practice that is accepting new patients.
  7. OK, so this is a council Penalty Charge Notice now at the 'further notice of enforcement' stage as, for whatever reason, you didn't get any correspondence from them after you submitted an initial appeal. Did you move house after the PCN was issued? Did you write tell them your new address? I guess from your previous parking posts here that you are aware that councils have greater powers than private parking companies for PCNs. Collegues on here may suggest any actions you could take to challenge it, but it seems that you don't dispute the offence and knew you had parked in a street you weren't allowed to park in, and had seen and understood the signage, but were appealing it on 'extenuating circumstances' grounds - new to the area, medical condition, urgent hospital appointment, etc - but council did not accept it. Is that correct? The answer might actually be to pay this before it escalates further. From what you say it's not obvious you would have any defence if it went to court. Are you able to pay it? I ask that mindful of what you say about your declining mental health and the extra stress that challenging this further might put on you. Is your car now correctly registered to your current address with DVLA, ie your current address is what is shown as the Registered Keeper on the car's V5C registration document/'log book'? Because when council and baliffs attempt to contact car owners they use the address of the Registered Keeper as recorded by DVLA.
  8. Is your partner's mother the sole executor? Was she aware that money was owing to the plumber when her husband died and she was dealing with his Estate? Please clarify one important point: do you accept that your partner's father owed money to the plumber at the time he died? And if so is the £5k about right, eg in line with estimates/quotes given before the work started? Or is the £5k disputed? As executor she could be personally liable for the £5k if she distributed the Estate without paying her husband's debts. It's irrelevant whether there is any money left in the Estate now, the question a judge would ask would be whether the Estate was solvent and able to pay the debt at date of death in February 2021. We need more information from you to understand what has happened, a bullet point timeline please. It's completely unclear from what you have posted why the debt wasn't paid, who owns the house now, who owned it when the work was done, what correspondence has passed between the plumber and the family. How many houses are we talking about? Is the house your partner's mother lives in the one the work was done on? Or was the work done on the a different house that you and your partner now live in? When was the work carried out? And please upload here a copy of the letter you have received (after covering up all information that would identify you including court reference numbers) as a single pdf.
  9. Who was executor to your partner's father's estate? Did your partner's mother offer to pay make clear she was offering as executor as it sounds like she had no personal liability to pay? Has plumber been sent a copy of the death certificate? Does he even know that your partner's father has died?
  10. If the MA has sent you the whole contract then it must state who the parties to the contract are. It wouldn't be a legal contract if it didn't. Who is named in the contract document?
  11. You mention passports and ID. When I was sorting out my mother's affairs after she died I didn't use the 'Tell us once' service (didn't know it existed) and simply wrote to all the separate government departments she had dealings with sending a photcopy of her death certificate and her passport etc. That was all that was needed. You can ask for the passport to be returned to you if you want to keep it, although they may only send to a UK address. Even with DWP that's all I did, it was just HMRC that was a bit more convoluted. If someone dies in the UK then DWP and the NHS get notified automatically by the Registrar of Deaths but presumably that doesn't happen if the person died outside the UK. I hope you get it sorted without too much hassle. Bureaucratic hurdles are the last thing you need at a sad time like this.
  12. I'm not convinced that when you become a director of the company that owns the freehold that will give you authority to direct the PPC to cancel your PCN. Authority to do that sits with the board of directors as a whole, and anyone they have delegated that power to. It's unlikely individual directors are authorised by the board of the freehold-owning company to give directions to the PPC, especially a direction to cancel their own PCN! What you can do is start making a bloody nuisance of yourself at board meetings to get the matter re-addressed. I don't understand how the parking works at the flats. If you are supposed to have a permit to park in the communal car park but even with a permit parking is limited to "1 hour parking in the Parking Bays with no return within one hour" where are residents supposed to park the rest of the time?
  13. If it's about state pension or other benefits it's DWP you need to tell. HMRC are not involved except to the extent any of the benefits received are taxable. All the information about how much state pension/benfits are paid get given to HMRC by the DWP. If your late wife was paying tax though then that is a matter for HMRC. Is this the contact info for HMRC you have been using? Bereavement and deceased estate - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) It does include a postal address but I'd avoid that if possible. I've heard (may not be literally true) that HMRC have everything internally focussed on online/phone contact and they have months worth of unopened post sitting in warehouses. Did you find this page? Was it any help? What to do after someone dies: Report the death without a Tell Us Once reference number - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
  14. Write to them as I suggested then ignore any further contacts. Just get proof of posting from a post office in case you ever need it. As you say they give no dates so don't get into SB, not necessary, save that for if they take it further. Given the trivial sum involved I'll be surpised if you hear any more.
  15. What London1971 says, zero chance. Apart from anything else they never even asked you to pay the balance did they? They would have had to come back to you and serve a demand for payment for the difference between the £5k in the judgement and what they sold it for at auction. They never did that so you didn't have an unsatisfied CCJ. If you are thinking a buying a house check your credit record at all the main CRAs, not only to satisfy yourself that this VW Finance isn't there but as a general bit a prudent housekeeping before applying for a mortgage to check there's nothing else lurking there that shouldn't be.
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