Council Tax 2017-18. DH & I were unable to start a payment plan from April when the CT year started again. DH had lost his job & we were surviving, somehow, on my modest income. No benefits. Still supporting young adult children at uni & one who does very little work (another story). We contacted Revenues to let them know, at least twice. They said not to worry - we could expect chase up letters but they no indication that if after a couple of months we hadn't been able to set up a plan, we could expect court action.
DH now has occasional work with rather more to come from the start of July. We were therefore, knowing CT is a priority debt, about to re-instate our old DD plan when today a 'Notice of Issue of Warrant of Control' came saying that we haven't made 'payment under the judgement (you) were ordered.' If we don't pay within 2 weeks, we can expect bailiff action. The ordered sum is well over £1, 000 more than the annual CT bill (which is high enough incidentally).
We never, in this time, received any notification from the Court of an impending hearing (which there must have been for this to happen). There is, in the Notice of Warrant, no reference to any previous correspondence date, judgement date.
If we had received anything at all along these lines, we'd have taken immediate action - writing in etc. As it is, we kept in touch with Revenues explaing our situation (which has been very difficult) and saying that we'd set the plan up just as soon as we could and certainly within a couple of months.
What do we do? Any suggestions would be welcome. I'm thinking of making a payment for a month - will see us will nothing until pay day - but I think I should. And setting up the plan though my guess is that Revenues will say that it's too late for plan. Could the Council reprise this from the Court? I think, too, we should be on their doorstep first thing on Tuesday to tell them all this and that we have not received anything from the court unti today. Thanks for any advice!