rundles Grencar bailiffs/council tax debt

[London1971]

Please listen and act on this advice, it worked for me and has done for many others on this forum

 

Call / email your daughters elected local councillor / elected head of council. Their numbers / Emails are on Google and are public information. They will take the bailiffs of your daughter's case and make the council accept an affordable offer.

 

If you need any advice on how to word things, please post on here.

[London1971]

From my Council Tax arrears (Nearly 5 K!!!) the bailiff 'visit' was something like £375 added on to the debt. There were also several liability orders at £75 each. I managed to get the Bailiff fees waived as my wife was ill and unable to work so she was classified as a vulnerable person.

 

Realistically, what I think you (the OP) can achieve via the local councillor is

 

1. A 6 month affordable agreement, even if it's only £30 per month (she must keep paying this)

2. The Bailiffs off her case

 

I think it's unlikely that they will remove the bailiff fee, although it won't hurt to ask, and it's almost impossible that they will waive the liability order fees. Long term there is no way to escape council tax. My wife became much better, we both got better jobs, and in the end the council took an attachment of earnings, that took 2 years to pay off the whole £5k debt.

[London1971]

I think you will be able to come to a temporary arrangement, using your local councillor.

 

 

However eventually in the next year they will try for an attachment of her earnings. In fact I can almost guarantee that they have written to her many times already asking for her employment details. Councils have a far easier time clawing back money this way than using bailiffs.

 

The AOE will come out of the blue, she will only find out a couple of days before pay day, and they will go for the maximum they are allowed, that is 2 AOE's to run concurrently, and it's pretty scary! At that point you will need to contact your local councillor again to bring it back to one.

 

However, take a look at this, this is what they can take from your daughters net salary at source.

 

https://www.northampton.gov.uk/info/200028/council-tax/996/council-tax-attachment-of-earnings

 

Look at the figures, it might actually be worth you asking them now to take 1 AOE at a time to pay her debt off, if it's affordable for her? This will knock the bailiffs off her, and in a couple of years all of this trouble will be a distant memory. She will also pay it off a lot quicker and be able to budget every month. As I say, it's an option worth looking at.