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Please help urgently.!!I was horrified to open a letter(Wed 16th April) telling me The DWP had instructed my employer to set up a DEA deduction from my salary. It says from April 2014 new legislation allows the DWP to do this without going to court. It states it only targets debtors who have never been in contact with them to discuss or refused to pay the debt. ( I did initially). After staying up all night on the net, I rang the DWP at 8 a.m. After strongly disputing their letter, I was eventually told an email would be sent' higher up', I might get a reply or I might not. However the DWP rang me back that afternoon.They said they would not enforce a DEA with my employer if I agreed to a monthly repayment plan right now. They asked for £150 per Month!, I said I would callthem back shortly.
The income support overpayment built up from 1997 to1999. I was never prosecuted, no CCJ's or anything (see more info below) Could you please tell me if the 1980 statute barred act applies to this new DWP ledgislation allowing them to instruct my employer to set up a Direct Earnings Attachment on a 14 year old debt? I am not on any benefit, but I do know, prior to this new law, they could only take it back if I were.
In 1999 I was interviewed under caution at the Social Security Office. I was not taken to court. In 1999, Citizens Advice put me in touch with Manchester Social Services, Who, on my behalf draughted a letter to The Dept of Social Security with my proposal on a repayment figure. 3 years and 7 months passed before I heard from them again(I still have the copies). 2002 I changed address. Late 2003 out of the blue I received a demand from the DWP stating they 'Had written to me several times' and demanded £5850.66 within 14 day's. I wrote back straight away, telling them I had not heard from them for nearly four years. (I have a copy of that too). I did not get a reply to that letter either. I have had a standard letter auto issued oat intervals, I assumed the last one was such a letter. Since the start in 1999,I have never paid back a penny (tried to at the time) of the money demanded fours years later, never been taken to court or had a CCJ imposed.
Please Please advise before gets the DEA order in the post
The income support overpayment built up from 1997 to1999. I was never prosecuted, no CCJ's or anything (see more info below) Could you please tell me if the 1980 statute barred act applies to this new DWP ledgislation allowing them to instruct my employer to set up a Direct Earnings Attachment on a 14 year old debt? I am not on any benefit, but I do know, prior to this new law, they could only take it back if I were.
In 1999 I was interviewed under caution at the Social Security Office. I was not taken to court. In 1999, Citizens Advice put me in touch with Manchester Social Services, Who, on my behalf draughted a letter to The Dept of Social Security with my proposal on a repayment figure. 3 years and 7 months passed before I heard from them again(I still have the copies). 2002 I changed address. Late 2003 out of the blue I received a demand from the DWP stating they 'Had written to me several times' and demanded £5850.66 within 14 day's. I wrote back straight away, telling them I had not heard from them for nearly four years. (I have a copy of that too). I did not get a reply to that letter either. I have had a standard letter auto issued oat intervals, I assumed the last one was such a letter. Since the start in 1999,I have never paid back a penny (tried to at the time) of the money demanded fours years later, never been taken to court or had a CCJ imposed.
Please Please advise before gets the DEA order in the post
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