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    • god they've got at you haven't they. told you all the usual utter BS. a CCJ vanishes from your credit file on it's 6th B'Day regardless to being paid off or not or paying or not. same with any debt with a registered defaulted date - it vanishes from your file on the DN's 6th B'day regardless. creditfix are Knightsbridge, (they renamed) there are 100's of threads here on Knightsbridge, if i remember rightly 2 of the directors of a certain very big IVA provider were struck off for embezzling £1m's out of debtors. pers i'd stop paying now.  end of . just ignore them all. 99% of your debts are to utterly powerless DCA's and probably were never owed in the first place only goes to firm up my belief from post one..you got had blind. its very easy to deal with the debts even those with CCJ's. can you copy and paste what you credit file says regarding the IVA please?   
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    • Sorry I meant credit fix - I really wish I'd known this before - kicking myself right now  If they come back to me asking for more money I'll cancel it and start trying to deal with the debt myself let's see what they say  Feeling tempted to cancel it now but scared that some of the debts will do more CCJ's on me and I'll have to wait 6 years again.  2 of the CCJ come of this year and then I'll only have the iva in credit file - effectively if I'd have not took out the iva in 2021 I'd have clear score by now - but then again would I because I would have been hounded the last 3 years, as bad as it is it's saves me lots of headaches whilst my debt was still within the 6 year mark.  I think most of them are near there but in all honesty no point chasing them if I do cancel iva I'd jjst wait for the ones who contact me and then start the relevant letter process on them.  Of over 6 years easy if not still possible to write off. My true victory would be having the iva wiped off my credit file as mis sold or something that way I Don't have to wait till 2027 Other option is to fight back and ask for them to offer the creditors to accept payments so far and use the following method    Will your IVA firm agree to complete your IVA on the basic of funds paid to date? The Guidance lists a lot of factors to be considered in deciding whether a settlement on the basis of funds paid to date should be proposed. You should read the list. But that may not give you any feel for whether they apply to you or not. The following are my thoughts on when an IVA should be treated as settled, not failed. They assume that you have £75 or less to pay a month: if you would currently qualify for a Debt Relief Order, then your IVA should be settled now  There is no point in making your IVA fail and you have to apply for a DRO – it will not generate another penny for your creditors. If you are renting and owe less than £50,000, check the DRO criteria now and talk to National Debtline on 0808 808 4000 about whether you qualify. You may have been told at the start of your IVA that you aren’t eligible – still check now as the DRO criteria have changed, your situation has got worse, and some people were given incorrect information about DROs at the start. if you have no assets that would be realised in bankruptcy (eg a house with equity, car worth over £2000), then your IVA should be settled now Same as (1), there is no point in making you apply for bankruptcy after your IVA fails. if your only asset is a car that is worth less than £8000, then your IVA should be settled now A car that is worth say £5000 would normally be sold in bankruptcy and you would be given a small amount to buy a cheaper car. But your creditors would not get any benefit from this as the Insolvency Service takes the first £8000 raised to cover its own costs. if you have significant assets, the closer you are to the end of the IVA, the less reasonable it is to fail it If you have been paying your IVA for 4 years, you have done your best over a long period. It isn’t your fault you can no longer continue. The fact you may have had equity to release isn’t relevant as that simply isn’t going to be possible. if your situation will clearly improve soon, then it’s unlikely your IVA will be settled I mean real improvements, not hoping that prices fall. If I can get them to accept payment to date or threaten with cancellation hopefully they may accept it -  Other option is to try and borrow money and pay make a full and final offer  Or I can just ignore and hope for the best which I'm very tempted to do especially if they respond to my review with bullying tactics despite me being skint as a fart with no mortgage as renting  It's so stressful but I've just checked the iva agreement from 2021 and it's Cabot 2 accounts Lowell about 5 accounts and then lots of repeats of the same debt with for example zopa and Cabot same amount listed twice -  also loyyds banks but I'm sure that's older than 6 years and not on credit file anyway  If I can somehow remove the iva from my credit file I'd be happy 
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As some of you may know, I am currently on ESA and waiting for a tribunal hearing. Assuming I win that and I stay on ESA...what happens if I go back to college?

I read that people in Income-related ESA have to come off it unless they also claim DLA (which I don't) and contribution-based people can stay on it. When my mum was at our jobcentre last week she explained the situation and they said there was no reason why I should have to come off it.

I just phoned them and have been told I will have to come off it. There are disability advisors and she has passed my number on and they will give me a call soon, as they know more than she does.

 

I'm 20, I've been on it since April 09. I went to college when I was 16 but left early, without any full level 3 qualifications. The course I may be doing will be full time. It starts this September.

 

I know there is the Adult Learning Grant and possibly other help, but that only goes towards travel costs (and it'll be about £50 a week, it is quite far but it's my nearest college that does that Animal Management National Diploma, and I have decided it is definitely what I want to do as a career, so it's not my fault it will cost so much!).

 

I use my ESA mainly on living costs. I give most of it to my mum towards rent and bills etc, I often pay for my own shopping to help her out (up until now she was also signed off and on ESA so we've both been struggling). And I have my mobile phone which I've got as low as possible (£10 per month).

So I can't physically afford not to have ESA! How am I supposed to live? Unless I forget the college idea, but why should I? This will hopefully be the start of a career I have always wanted, I'm not missing out on the chance.

 

Does anyone know any more about this? I'm really anxious (and angry) about the possibilty of losing money I pay towards living, just because I'm doing something good and going into education! :(:mad:

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Hi. I don't know the answer but will be awaiting replies as this will effect me also

Rbs £114 + contractual at 29.84% I won total=£125 no laughing it's a win

Don't moan about it DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT :D

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I've got an interview on 23rd June so I will ask then, and in the meantime I should hear from the advisors at the Jobcentre. But I just thought I'd ask on here in the meantime as I'm quite anxious!

I phoned my CAB but they're not open today, I checked online and I can phone tomorrow from 11am so I will.

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When a person is "recieving education" they are not entitled to ESA (IR) paragraph 49091 condition 7 Chapter 41 unless they are also receiving DLA (paragraph 41551)

 

What constitutes education (for income related allowance) is outlined in the legislation here

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Thank you for that, although it's a bit confusing to me! Where it says about courses being funded by Learning and Skills Council for England. I have no idea if my course is, hopefully CAB will know when I speak to them tomorrow, if not the college definitely will so I'll find out at my interview next week.

 

But if I win the tribunal, that is proof I have limited capability for work, therefore they can't say to me "If you need money to live off, you'll have to find work." can they? That defeats the whole point!

 

I'm really worried, it's more my mum I am worried for than me. She has just started a job and will be better off financially for it, plus we are soon moving to a cheaper house, but she will still need money from me! And the council are always going on about how much I should be giving her because I'm over 18 blah blah blah, they don't seem to care that I can't give her the amount they expect me to, because I don't physically earn that amount!

They tell her I should pay her about £200 a month. Well that would be all my benefit!

 

I have wondered if it's worth me applying for DLA, as quite a few people with ASDs seem to, even people on the milder end of the spectrum. I might be elegible for the lowest care rate. Another thing to ask CAB tomorrow! But again it all comes down to embarrassment, but being 100% honest, no I often can't take care of myself, and a lot of the questions on the DLA application do apply to me. It's just embarrassing and a little upsetting to admit, and I don't really want the hassle of applying for that, after everything ESA have put me through! But at the moment, it looks like I may have to (which I know sounds wrong/bad), otherwise I won't have money to live off if I get onto this college course!

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