Hi all my name is steve and i have read a few of your threads but none appear to help me directly, a few years ago you may remember an energy supplier called Swalec ( southern western electric) i left them in 2008 i think for a MUCH cheaper supplier, but at the time failed to pay off my old bill. I entered into an agreement and paid them £20 a month, in october 2008 i stopped getting these phone calls, i kept quiet, then i find out towards the end of 2008 that they have either gone bust, into liquidation or something along them lines, and in most if not all cases like this the debt gets written off, happy i was. that is until today 24th january a letter comes to my door demanding payment from a company called southern electric asking for payment of the remaining £60.00 in ten days or else... surely after 3 and a quarter years they have no right to suddenly start asking for money off me do they... i have not contacted them yet for fear of digging a whole, i was about to ring them and ask who the hell they are, when i looked at the back page and it shows all my payments, which means they probably have access to where the payments come from so to say it not my debt may spur someone to start asking for interest or something, hopefully someone out there can tell me how long they have to claim a debt, i know if a cheque goes unspent i think you only get 6 months to deposit it, and lottery tickets i think are a year or less, so why should this be any different, if i have to enter into an agrement, am i allowed to make a suggestion of say £1 a week... thanks cag for any help you can give me. regards