To add i spoke to the council involved and they have said i have to deal directly with the bailiff now. There part of the debt is £102, so Rosendales part is £180...how? I would like to fight this but have a fiance and 2 young children who are left at home when i go to work who i dont want to be left to deal with them.

Hi. I had a bailiff from Rosendales turn up on my door step on tuesday looking for council tax from a previous address, i no longer live in that borough. He didnt get into the house and nobody signed anything (i was in work at the time). The debt is from when i moved house i owed roughly owed £100, i agreed with the council at the time to pay £10 a week by direct debit, i even paid the first payment over the phone, i sent off the payment plan form and all was agreed. as far as i was aware this was paid. However about 3 months ago i got a letter from rosendales looking for the money, i ignored the letter as i felt i had paid it, then the next thing i know is there are bailiffs on the doorstep. I phoned him when i got in from work and explained i thought i had paid it but he said i will have to take it up with the council and call him back in a few days as he had been ordered to take stuff (he turned up in a van). It turns out the the direct debit was never set up by the council despite me sending them my details for it to be done. So now this Bailiff is looking for £280 from me, how its got to that amount i dont know.. I wanted to know a few things if thats possible. Is it true that Bailiffs can not enter the property if there are children under the age of 12 in the propert? Who do i request a breakdown of the debt off, Rosendales or the Bailiff himself and do they have to provide them? and whilst i am waiting for them will they call off the heavies or will they still come around whilst i am waiting? I was tempted to just borrow the money off family to pay the debt, if i paid the debt in full to the bailiff would this be the end of it or could i expect to see them again over the same debt? Can i no longer just deal with the previous council as i no longer live there and its gone beyond that stage? Im wondering when this bailiff is going to turn up again, could be any day. Thanks for any help you can offer.