Stress and harassment as collectors chase people that are wrong cash
Nicole Newman, a mother-of-one from Tottenham, north London, ended up being recently obligated to show her identification to a bailiff after a court order known as her home whilst the target of a council taxation absconder.
Letters began arriving 3 months she received an already-opened letter which stated that the following week an enforcement agent would be coming “for the purpose of taking control of goods and transporting such controlled goods to a place of sale” after she bought her house, until one day. an occupant that is previous a completely different title owed significantly more than £7,000 in council taxation at another target, that has been provided regarding the enforcement notice.
Newman contacted the regional council, which informed her she had to call the enforcement representative straight. “I talked into the bailiff, who had been actually terrible and aggressive,” Newman says. “I happened to be reluctant to offer my details for them, but we felt they might come and break up the door if i did son’t show whom I became.”
Newman’s experience just isn’t unique. (more…)