Owing Money aborad

[Paintinmyhair]

I have recently moved back to the UK. My bank account is overdrawn by 150 Euro and childcare are insisting I owe them 160 euro, despite them taking the money out twice (leaving me the 150 euro in the red). However, I need childcare to fill in a form to recover my childcare costs (1,000 euro) and the landlord is refusing to refund the bond, as I am no longer in the country so he knows that I will struggle to chase him (another 1,000 euro). I can't repay the money I owe until I get the money I am owed. What will the backlash be?

This could be one for the CAB. Your story is a little confusing... I don't understand, for example, how owing a landlord - presumably in another country - ?1000 has an impact on claiming back 'childcare', also paid in Euros, also presumably in another country. It's very unclear what the actual issue is.

The landlord owes me the money, sorry. I can't afford to pay the overdraft off etc unless I can recover the bond and/or the childcare expenses.

I am able to claim for childcare expenses that were paid in euro's, but need to fill in a form to do so (was part of the relocation deal). The childcare won't return the forms to me, as they are in English, so they say that they can't fill them in (despite speaking perfect english, and me having filled it in for them).

Landlords withholding deposits are not all that uncommon. However, if he's not cooperating voluntarily, you have to think about things like Small Claims Court. Have no idea if that kind of facility exists in the particular part of the Eurozone your landlord resides. In the case of your former childcare provider, are you posting forms and trying to deal with this on the telephone? Could you go back to them in person and try to resolve it that way?