In short, how do I get my L/Authority to a) entirely refund my accrued homeless removal/storage fees they enforced me to pay in their stead from 19.8.08 and b) LA uphold these storage fees - £141 4xWeekly - while I remain homeless?
NB: LA obduracy (since 1992) has always been 'who' I am not 'what' (my situation). Now, myriad verbal 'reasons' for no obligation for these fees Yet refuse being categorical as to why not, as my (last, recorded delivery) letter required. [see below: LA don't acknowledge my homelessness, but my issue is not re-housing].
Meantime, I struggle to manage on a very reduced pension by this constant outlay; that I now have malnutrition and debilitating effect ailments.
(Brief) background: My last 13 year private rental, albeit EHO had deemed it 'unfit', ended when my Landlady's Mortgage Co served her a Ground 2 Repossession, and thereby I too became evicted - 19.8.08.
Judge gave me just 4 days to vacate. I immediately wrote to LA with s.17 homeless notice. No reply or (usual, impromptu) visit.
Bailiffs would put my possessions on street. My basic state pension could not afford getting my items to safety; that I had to borrow money to do so. But only one removal company was available at such short notice.
The stress relapsed my ME, especially as my car became my only 'roof' - which it still is.
My ME wasn't 'level' until the October, when I went to the LA to speak to someone. I was handed the 'phone (they wouldn't come to me). "Do you pay the removal and storage fees of homeless people?" "Yes we do, what is the name?" "***** *****" "Oh no! MISS *****(her emphasis), we refuse to acknowledge your homelessness!" The line then went dead. I had a panic attack.
NB: LA obduracy (since 1992) has always been 'who' I am not 'what' (my situation). Now, myriad verbal 'reasons' for no obligation for these fees Yet refuse being categorical as to why not, as my (last, recorded delivery) letter required. [see below: LA don't acknowledge my homelessness, but my issue is not re-housing].
Meantime, I struggle to manage on a very reduced pension by this constant outlay; that I now have malnutrition and debilitating effect ailments.
(Brief) background: My last 13 year private rental, albeit EHO had deemed it 'unfit', ended when my Landlady's Mortgage Co served her a Ground 2 Repossession, and thereby I too became evicted - 19.8.08.
Judge gave me just 4 days to vacate. I immediately wrote to LA with s.17 homeless notice. No reply or (usual, impromptu) visit.
Bailiffs would put my possessions on street. My basic state pension could not afford getting my items to safety; that I had to borrow money to do so. But only one removal company was available at such short notice.
The stress relapsed my ME, especially as my car became my only 'roof' - which it still is.
My ME wasn't 'level' until the October, when I went to the LA to speak to someone. I was handed the 'phone (they wouldn't come to me). "Do you pay the removal and storage fees of homeless people?" "Yes we do, what is the name?" "***** *****" "Oh no! MISS *****(her emphasis), we refuse to acknowledge your homelessness!" The line then went dead. I had a panic attack.
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