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Hi,
On the RTE News at 9 tonight they carried a report on a woman who had taken out an unsecured loan but fell into difficulty when she became ill and lost her job.
What is scary about this case is the lady in question had agreed a payment of €25 pw to the creditor and had been paying it when out of nowhere they served a commital order on her for non payment of said debt and wanted to jail her.
Now as I had understood the situation up to now no-one goes to jail for debt but rather for contempt of a court order and yet this person was not in contempt and yet was still served with a committal order.
In the end she got her family to pay the debt but we are in seriously barbaric territory if this is actually the way we will proceed with debtors in this country.
Either this or we a re getting sensationalised reporting from those at Montrose.
Just to mention also I have no problems with debt myself but my younger sister is in serious hock with the credit union and I have been on at her to come to a mutually agreed payment plan, she saw this report tonight and freaked!
On the RTE News at 9 tonight they carried a report on a woman who had taken out an unsecured loan but fell into difficulty when she became ill and lost her job.
What is scary about this case is the lady in question had agreed a payment of €25 pw to the creditor and had been paying it when out of nowhere they served a commital order on her for non payment of said debt and wanted to jail her.
Now as I had understood the situation up to now no-one goes to jail for debt but rather for contempt of a court order and yet this person was not in contempt and yet was still served with a committal order.
In the end she got her family to pay the debt but we are in seriously barbaric territory if this is actually the way we will proceed with debtors in this country.
Either this or we a re getting sensationalised reporting from those at Montrose.
Just to mention also I have no problems with debt myself but my younger sister is in serious hock with the credit union and I have been on at her to come to a mutually agreed payment plan, she saw this report tonight and freaked!
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