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    • Hi @LilMissM   I guess you could call me our resident CIFAS Specialist - Personally have been through all of what you have and now have come out the other side when my marker fell off in May 2023. For a start Monzo may close your account but as I had a Marker for App Fraud (Vodafone ended up making a whole hoohah of the account I had with them) - I was with them and still am from Oct 2017 till today. And not once did they close my account. I actually spoke to a couple of current account providers at the time that I had accounts with - Nationwide and Barclays - Told them what was going on and provided all the evidence to them. They advised they may do so but it was highly unlikely now that they understood why it happened and what I was doing to fight it.    Anyway - On to your marker. MCB is My Community Bank?  I can say to you that on experience that On Monday you can be on top of the world then on Tuesday you whole life changes in a flash of an eye. Suddenly you cant pay your bills, Work isnt feasible and you are left with no other choice but to scrape by.  If this has happened to you, then join the club.  - Why is this important? Well Financial institutions get one whiff of potential fraud and you are guilty without a chance to respond. You found out the hard way   If it sounds like I'm waffling, I'm not - Its important to your issue. They have deemed you guilty by the fact that no payments have been made and potentially entered into a loan agreement knowing looking not to pay (Although thats how it may appear, there will always be factors against that)    First off - Questions - What Category of Marker do you have? If unsure, check my signature for a Credit File Guide which will tell you all you need to know about what Categories apply.  - When did you raise the complaint? They will have 8 weeks to respond. More on this in a mo.  - Do you have Correspondence / Audit Trails of communications showing that you were in severe financial strain due to an event AFTER you took the loan?   My next suggestions, Send this complaint to the CEOs office - CEOEMAIL.COM Let them make the decision as per the Complaint Procedure. Then if they refuse to remove the marker. take it to the FOS who can force the company to remove it if found in favour.  Some companies do need a slap or 2 once in a while to bring them down a peg. You could be looking at this right now.   
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    • Page 2 – document 10 and 11 – you should include the fact that it is a Law reform commission report. Best to give it its full name if you can I suggest that you move paragraph 10 up to the first position – paragraph 5 and move everything down. I think other than that – it is good to go. I suggest you don't bother to do any more drafts. Simply rearrange the paragraphs as I suggested above then the title of the documents that you are relying on in the index page. Send it off and post your final version here so that everybody can see. I'm sorry about the delay. Thanks for reminding me
    • I have recently found myself in financial difficulties and with the help of forum members in another thread regarding this, I think I can get myself sorted. My query here is how to deal with a Cifas marker that has been logged against me by one of my creditors for "evasion of payment". Admittedly yes I did get a £5000 loan with them and have not paid any payment but at the start of the year, which is when the loan landed, I realised I was going to be struggling to repay that and other debts and I contacted MCB to ask if there was any way I could extend the loan from 24 months to 36 months. I explained my situation and that I was going with a DMP and asked them if they could help me with this. They did not reply. I then emailed them again a month later explaining that my DMP was going ahead and could they confirm that the direct debit was indeed cancelled. Again, they did not reply. The DMP fell apart and so did everything else thereafter. My bank withdrew my overdraft and said I could not stay with them (I thought initially that it was because of the DMP) so I opened another account (Starling) and set up all my direct debits etc with the new bank. A month into being with the new bank, they contacted me and said they were closing my account in three months. So I started applying for other basic accounts and every single one of them either refused or revoked.  Through the help in the other thread, I requested a SAR from Cifas and discovered that I have this marker against my name for "evasion of payment". I have logged a complaint with MCB on the advice of other forum members, but my query really is do you think the marker is fair given that I did ask them for help and I did explain that I was going to be struggling financially to repay the loan over the original two years, and is there any way that I can get it removed? I fully admit that I have yet to make a payment to them and I suppose in my naivety and panic I thought if I emailed them early on they could extend the loan and help me out, but they didn't even reply  I did manage to open an account with Monzo before the marker was in place, but I am very concerned that if Monzo do what Starling did, I will have no bank account to pay my bills or get my wages paid into.  Realistically based on the information I have given here, what do you think my chances are of getting this marker removed? Any help/advice on this would be greatly appreciated x
    • Thank you dx, that is what I intend to do now. I have gone through all the SAR documents, a lot of which I am seeing for the first time! As per my previous post #116 letters and statements alleged to have been sent to me, as recorded on their system notes I have not received. Letters I have sent requesting information and account statements have not been recorded as being received by them, all were sent either by Recorded or Special Delivery. I have all the proof you menrtioned from my files for payments and from their SAR info for fees added. Thanks t
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Hi.. I was diagnosed wioth HIV 7 years ago and was awarded DLA. I have mental health issues on going / ocd and recently had cancer / Lymphoma which caused Small fibre neuropathy which flares up badly at intervals. I also have a back issue and have been seeing neurologist / pain clinic / gp / HIV consultant. I have managed to work and really need to work for fulfilment but could not survive if DLA higher / lower rate was removed. I use it for travel fares / phone costs re support and attend private therapy at £200.00 per month as long term therapy to support me to work does not exist on NHS! I am also facing possible redundancy re Voluntary sector cuts..Life feels difficult and the worry over a medical or possible loss to the DLA is now causing me an anxiety patch. I can only hope I get some support to know how to approach a medical and I guess all consultants involved in my care will be able to submit reports also?

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Hi..No no request yet. Guess my condition makes me worry for the future. Guiess I have 2 years to go though!! I hope with the conditions I hav all would be ok and I would pass..we need to know yet a lot more about what will be in thest I guess...early fear and speculation!!

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Hi Adam, I know how you feel, I think a lot of us feel that way right now. You get an award for life and think, phew, one less thing to worry about and then bang, here we go again. :-(

 

Listen 2-3 years is a long time in life and even more so in politics, so don't let it ruin your quality of life, at the end of it, worrying won't make a blind bit of difference. When -if- the time comes, then I'm sure a few of us will still be here, advising, helping and supporting people. :-)

 

Take care.

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Thanks do much for your kind words. I feel it will all sort itself out and those who are in need of help with good back up / medical evidence will be ok. I agree who knows what may change re politics and pressure etc but I think I am right in saying no medicals will take place til 2013 / 14?

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That's the current plan, yes.

 

The cynical me thinks that they will use the time to carry on with their propaganda campaign to vilify us so that by the time they put it in place, it will be hailed as a step for justice and fairness and the worst abuses of disabled human rights dismissed as collateral damage. :-(

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Oh my goodness that's quite worrying so u think they will actually go one step further and try to vilify all the dusabled people who claim dla. I was once told a long time ago by a woman who claims dla that she would never tell anyone because of jelousy. But people who are jelous don't have to struggle with dissabilitys and life threatening illness's. Is there anyone left that will speak up or does anyone want to listen. The idea is people who claim dla are sponging. However the banks that got us into this mess have been robbing the country blind while lining there own pockets with massive bonuses. They don't get penalised just get a new job in a new bank.

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errrrr do they get an extra bonus for moving banks. derrrrr

 

 

From reading on here lately if its still atos i think thats what you call it,

 

Well lf they do the medicals it seems in an impossible task not to be refused.

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make no mistake this government is determined to punish the sick and poorest of our society....these boards will become a hot potato come 2013 and beyond with people losing their dla award...and between now and then you will hear nothing but the following two words together...welfare..scrounger....its already started...

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I do feel we have 2 years and the medical system will see whatr meds / support / illness and how those who do work do manage wioth the benefit and hopefully it may be those who are not great priority and are in fact better that will have the adjustment made. Why do we all sit and accept these implementations so much in UK?!! Who knows over the next 2 years what may change..fingers crossed all of us.

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