Property News · February 13, 2016

Hassle and harassment as debt collectors chase wrong people for money


Innocent people can find themselves having to prove who they are if letters and calls start arriving at their property, so know your rightsNicole Newman, a mother-of-one from Tottenham, north London, was recently forced to prove her identity to a bailiff after a court order named her property as the address of a council tax absconder.Letters started arriving three months after she bought her house, until one day 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”. A previous occupant with a very different name owed more than £7,000 in council tax at another address, which was given on the enforcement notice. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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