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In May 2014 I was fined for not having a tv licence at my previous address. I knew nothing about it until last month. Apparently all correspondence was sent to my old address. I haven't been hiding, in fact without realising, until September 2016 payments for this fine were coming out of my income support every fortnight. I no longer claim income support but I'm a full time carer to my son.
Ok so the Collectica letter said I owed £390. I emailed the court and after much to ing and fro ing I've paid £150 to Collectica in 3 payments. Tonight a bloke knocks the door and informs me I can't have a payment plan at all, I have to pay the remaining amount asap.
The letter I received in June said £390 owed. His ipad thingy said it was £340. On their website it said £390. Anyway, I told him I've got nothing till Tuesday and I can try to pay the rest. I told him no one in this house works, I'm on carers allowance. He did not step foot inside the door. To be honest he looked more scared of me than I did of him!
What I really want to know is, can they realistically refuse an offer of £50 a week? Or am I just going to have to scrape this money together by Tuesday to avoid them coming back because I don't think it'll be the same person coming. Im pretty sure itll be someone bigger and less polite.
I'd also like to say, if I knew about this fine I would have paid it a long time ago. With 3 kids, one of which is disabled, I try to avoid this kind of thing happening for obvious reasons. I'm not frightened, I just want to know if I have to feed the family beans on toast for a week to get this thing out of the way or if u can spread the cost.
Thank you for any replies.
In May 2014 I was fined for not having a tv licence at my previous address. I knew nothing about it until last month. Apparently all correspondence was sent to my old address. I haven't been hiding, in fact without realising, until September 2016 payments for this fine were coming out of my income support every fortnight. I no longer claim income support but I'm a full time carer to my son.
Ok so the Collectica letter said I owed £390. I emailed the court and after much to ing and fro ing I've paid £150 to Collectica in 3 payments. Tonight a bloke knocks the door and informs me I can't have a payment plan at all, I have to pay the remaining amount asap.
The letter I received in June said £390 owed. His ipad thingy said it was £340. On their website it said £390. Anyway, I told him I've got nothing till Tuesday and I can try to pay the rest. I told him no one in this house works, I'm on carers allowance. He did not step foot inside the door. To be honest he looked more scared of me than I did of him!
What I really want to know is, can they realistically refuse an offer of £50 a week? Or am I just going to have to scrape this money together by Tuesday to avoid them coming back because I don't think it'll be the same person coming. Im pretty sure itll be someone bigger and less polite.
I'd also like to say, if I knew about this fine I would have paid it a long time ago. With 3 kids, one of which is disabled, I try to avoid this kind of thing happening for obvious reasons. I'm not frightened, I just want to know if I have to feed the family beans on toast for a week to get this thing out of the way or if u can spread the cost.
Thank you for any replies.
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