{"id":94775,"date":"2018-07-26T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mps-rebuke-councils-for-overzealous-use-of-bailiffs\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T23:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:04:09","slug":"mps-rebuke-councils-for-overzealous-use-of-bailiffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/mps-rebuke-councils-for-overzealous-use-of-bailiffs\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs rebuke councils for 'overzealous' use of bailiffs"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAuthorities\u2019 use of debt collectors for council tax arrears criticised by Treasury committeeCouncils are driving poor people further into financial difficulty by using bailiffs \u201coverzealously\u201d to pursue households that have failed to pay council tax, according to a damning report by a committee of MPs.In 2016, around 2.3m debt cases were passed to bailiffs by local authorities, according to data given to the House of Commons Treasury committee. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Authorities\u2019 use of debt collectors for council tax arrears criticised by Treasury committeeCouncils are driving...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-oED","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11942,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/record-numbers-of-people-in-council-tax-arrears-say-charities\/","url_meta":{"origin":94775,"position":0},"title":"Record numbers of people in council tax arrears, say charities","date":"May 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Councils are too quick to pass debts to bailiffs, which should be a last resort, say StepChange and Money Advice TrustRecord numbers of people are falling behind with council tax payments, according to debt charities, which are calling for an halt to increasingly \u201caggressive\u201d use of bailiffs by cash-strapped\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":69068,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/im-locked-in-a-dispute-with-a-confused-council-and-bumbling-bailiffs\/","url_meta":{"origin":94775,"position":1},"title":"I\u2019m locked in a dispute with a confused council and bumbling bailiffs","date":"October 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Hammersmith & Fulham sent bailiffs to the wrong address, who threatened to take my car over a fine I knew nothing aboutIn April of this year we were on a month-long trip to Australia and had a friend staying in our flat. 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