Citizens Advice has reported a sharp rise in people seeking help with bailiff-related issues as vulnerable consumers are targeted by increasingly aggressive debt collection methods.
The number of reported problems with bailiffs exceeded 103,000 in the 12 months to March 31 this year a 16 per cent increase on the previous year which Citizens Advice said was driven by a rise in bailiffs not following the rules around rights of entry.
Nearly one in six of the incidents involved bailiffs threatening to break in, or unlawfully doing so, the charity said, a rise of 13 per cent on the previous year.
Other issues the charity said it regularly encountered included bailiffs charging excessive fees and refusing to set up affordable repay…
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