Hello all I'm new to this forum and I'm really hoping you are all a friendly bunch who won't judge me too much

My husband and I have always been in debt for as long as we've been together, and we are at the point where we are just being crippled every month with high interest and fallen...

Elderly hit by energy bill overpayment 'trap'

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 26th October 2015 09:19
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Was Cameron VAT pledge an elephant trap for Labour?

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 26th March 2015 08:38.

The campaign has not even got under way, yet in the space of a couple of hours we have now been treated to not only one election pledge, but to......

AKA, Christ, I've done it again

Hi folks.

I've come back to the forums for a bit of help, as you helped me greatly with a similar problem last year.

I have a total of four loans with Swift Sterling, all of which are due to be paid back on September 26th. They...

There is what I believe wide scale misselling at Royal Mail regarding PO BOXES. mail forwarding and special delivery that has been going on for too long and which could get worse now that they are privately owned.

I sent a package yesterday morning in a cardboard backed envelope to the...

Microsoft Corp. on Monday issued an emergency security warning saying that hackers have found a way to booby-trap certain common Word files with the .rtf extension.
Microsoft says it's aware of attacks going on now, but there's no fix yet to stop the hackers. It's working on a way to stop the...

A steam locomotive with only two driving wheels - one on each side - could easily travel at 60+ miles per hour:



This steam locomotive, however, had a total of 12 driving wheels - six on each side:



How fast do you estimate it could go down the li...

I need to have an asbestos concrete garage roof removed, so that I can have a new roof put on, but have been quoted over a thousand pounds for disposal, which means that I cannot afford the new roof!
Please does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi all, sorry I haven't been around for a good while. But I'm not doing too bad at the minute.
I was hoping for some advice for someone I'm trying to help. Now to be fair I'm not sure if I'm being fed a load of BS, but this is how it goes.
This Person applied for a Pay Day Loan through a...

Hi everyone, some of you may remember me from a while ago as the guy who had trouble obtaining a bank account. That thread is here if you want to refresh your memories: http://forums.all-about-debt.co.uk/s...c-bank-account

Since I finally...

New game Idea is to make a two word object or phrase, using the last word typed.


So if I posted Dinner Time
The next poster would have to think of a word associated with Time and they could post
Time Out




So I'll start off
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I'm in an IVA, have had a defaulted credit card from capital one in the past which defaulted but settled in full 2 months later.

I have 17 defaults on credit link, 15 with Experian and 14 on equifax. My IVA is recorded on all 3.

I receive about 4 e-mails a day from Capital...

Credit union expansion to force out payday lenders

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 7th May 2013 17:16.

*More than 30 credit unions have teamed up to offer an alternative to payday lenders in a "landmark" expansion drive which will save consumers...

Each year, more than 45 million UK residents head off overseas either on holiday, business, visiting friends and relatives, or to study. With so many of us going abroad, often for long periods of time, there is always the possibility that you or one of your family members might need medical treatment...

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