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We are a government agency that helps to deliver economic confidence by supporting those in financial distress, tackling financial wrongdoing and maximising returns to creditors. The Insolvency Service is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Business and Trade...
Guidance for creditors applying to take a debt recovery step, cancel or amend the ‘breathing space’, or have a debt removed.
Get information on bankruptcy, redundancy, paying off your debts, company insolvency and misconduct of trading companies and partnerships.
Debts you owe (for example court fines, rent or Council Tax) can be deducted from your benefits – sometimes called third party deductions or Fuel Direct
Form SD2R: Statutory Demand under Section 268(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986. Debt for Liquidated Sum Payable Immediately.
During Debt Awareness Week, we talk to Neil Sutton, a senior leader within the bankruptcy and Debt Relief Order teams at the Insolvency Service, about some of the options that can help people on their journey out of debt.
Making someone bankrupt is one way to recover money owed to you – bankruptcy petition fees and download a guide to creditor bankruptcy petitions
Form SD3: Statutory demand under Section 268(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986. Debt payable at future date.
Form SD4: Statutory demand under section 268(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986. Debt for liquidated sum payable immediately following a judgment or order of the court.
Use a mediation service, send a statutory demand, go to court or make someone bankrupt if a person or business owes you money
Claim money if you've lost your job because your employer has been made insolvent
MOD supplier payment performance, invoice processing and MOD contract payments.
This guidance is for company directors who are claiming redundancy related payments from the Insolvency Service.
Southern Region, Judge Tildesley OBE on 23 March 2020
The official receiver may use debt collection agencies to collect debts and income payments agreements.
This guidance explains what the Community Infrastructure Levy is and how it operates.
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