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Hello.
Woke up this morning to a piece of paper stuffed through the door from a company called JBW claiming an enforcement notice (in nice big bright red letters) for debt type: "Road Traffic" - whatever that means. The name on the paper is that of my SO. As far as we are aware, this is the first letter they have sent her (although she says she has thrown out some letters before she thought were from student finance, but may have been from this company)
The letter claims balance due is £423, however there is no mention of what this is for (except Debt Type: Road traffic) SO says she has had penalty notices on her car before, but as far as she is aware these were all paid. There is no breakdown of costs, the address simply has our house number followed by the city name - no street name. There are also 4 boxes where they say they will come back, one evening, morning, weekend or today. None of these are ticked.
It says the enforcement agents name, but only gives his first name and a mobile number. I have made no attempt to contact him. The piece of paper doesn't look like any legal example of an enforcement notice I have managed to find online. There are no references to any sort of fines, just that we owe the balance of £423. I can upload pictures if needed.
This was presumably delivered by hand before 8AM, was not in an envelope. From what I have researched online, I should not let them in if they do come back, they have no legal power to enter my house.
What would be my best course of action? Should we get in touch with the agent or the company and try to find out exactly what this charge is for? Road traffic suggests to me an unpaid traffic fine. Is this something we definitely have to pay, and can this guy enter my house if I leave a door unlocked? Very confused and slightly scared, any advice would be greatly appreciated. We can probably afford to pay off the full amount if that's what we have to do, it might just mean eating noodles for a month.
Have also just noticed they have stuck an warning of immobilisation on her motorbike that is parked outside, but have not put a clamp on it. This was done at 7am today.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
Pope
Woke up this morning to a piece of paper stuffed through the door from a company called JBW claiming an enforcement notice (in nice big bright red letters) for debt type: "Road Traffic" - whatever that means. The name on the paper is that of my SO. As far as we are aware, this is the first letter they have sent her (although she says she has thrown out some letters before she thought were from student finance, but may have been from this company)
The letter claims balance due is £423, however there is no mention of what this is for (except Debt Type: Road traffic) SO says she has had penalty notices on her car before, but as far as she is aware these were all paid. There is no breakdown of costs, the address simply has our house number followed by the city name - no street name. There are also 4 boxes where they say they will come back, one evening, morning, weekend or today. None of these are ticked.
It says the enforcement agents name, but only gives his first name and a mobile number. I have made no attempt to contact him. The piece of paper doesn't look like any legal example of an enforcement notice I have managed to find online. There are no references to any sort of fines, just that we owe the balance of £423. I can upload pictures if needed.
This was presumably delivered by hand before 8AM, was not in an envelope. From what I have researched online, I should not let them in if they do come back, they have no legal power to enter my house.
What would be my best course of action? Should we get in touch with the agent or the company and try to find out exactly what this charge is for? Road traffic suggests to me an unpaid traffic fine. Is this something we definitely have to pay, and can this guy enter my house if I leave a door unlocked? Very confused and slightly scared, any advice would be greatly appreciated. We can probably afford to pay off the full amount if that's what we have to do, it might just mean eating noodles for a month.
Have also just noticed they have stuck an warning of immobilisation on her motorbike that is parked outside, but have not put a clamp on it. This was done at 7am today.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
Pope
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