Category: Insolvency

  • Does Debt Die With You?

    What happens to debt when you die? When you pass, your unpaid debts are not forgotten. It’s the executor of your Will that is legally obliged to distribute any remaining debt among rightful creditors. But be warned – if a debt exceeds the value of an estate it can leave those behind unable to make…

  • More than two million UK households are in debt

    The number of UK households in arrears on their energy bills soared to record levels in the second quarter of this year, with more than two million behind on their electricity payments. The number of UK households in arrears on their energy bills soared to record levels in the second quarter of this year, with…

  • Retail Home Shopping

    Consumers don’t need to venture outside of their front door to shop for home, personal, gifts and gardening items. There are 24 hour television channels dedicated solely to the home shopping audience. The internet also serves as an easy way to click a shopping basket full of items that, many times, are bought on a…

  • Christmas Shopping Debt

    Christmas shopping to leave Brits with four months of debt The average Brit gets into £439 of debt over the Christmas period, which can take four months to recover from. According to debt management company Lowell, more than a fifth (22 per cent) of British consumers are feeling pressure to spend beyond their means this…

  • Warning as millions of taxpayers owe money to HMRC – are you affected?

    TAX debt is now more than double pre-pandemic levels with the National Audit Office (NAO) today warning the HMRC may struggle in dealing with the workload of collection. Up to 2.4 million taxpayers are thought to be in debt to HMRC since the pandemic with a total debt of £42billion in September according to the…

  • Three-step process

    Whatever the size or age of the debt, we can save you time by advising you at the earliest stage about the best way to go about recovering your money. Our three-step process makes understanding debt recovery easy and our aim is to resolve matters before step two. These steps are; 1. Pre-litigation This includes:…

  • ‘Severe arrears’ now just cause for bailiff-enforced evictions

    There’s been a further tweak to the eviction controls introduced in England for the duration of the lockdown, lasting until December 2. There has been substantial publicity for what is effectively a ban on evictions, which followed a letter from government to bailiff authorities asking them not to en force possession cases during the lockdown.…

  • The pros and cons of taking legal action against late paying customers

    With two in five small business owners (40%) saying that they are taking legal action against customers not paying them on time, we consider the pros and cons of taking legal action to recover what’s owed. According to new research from Hitachi Capital Business Finance, three in five small businesses are affected by late payments (62%).…