My paperwork finally arrived this morning! However, there are a couple of things that were in there that I'm not sure about:
1. There is a extract from the land register relating to my address. However, the flat is in my partner's name, so was the search to confirm that I don't actually part own the property? I was never told that there would be a land registry search.
2. There is a printout of a payslip calculator which has partner's income and expenditure written at the top. There is a figure in the gross pay box which bears no relation to any figures relating to Dave's income, and in the tax code box they have my tax code! When my contributions were assessed some of Dave's income was included and supposedly offset against mine and I am presuming this is how they arrived at the figure!
3. My final point! I had to provide a list of Dave's outgoings, and some of them have been crossed through, which is fair enough as they were things like Sky and broadband, but they have also not included the property maintenance charge. We HAVE to pay that to live here as it does what it says on the tin and pays for the maintenance of the flats! Surely if there was a problem with this I should have been asked about it?
I know all this is in the past now, and these questions are mainly to satisfy my curiosity as one of the reasons that I couldn't afford my IVA was because they took Dave's income into account didn't offset it against mine - the proposal said I was paying the mortgage of £556 and they included £560 of Dave's salary to cover it, but it failed to take into account the fact that I pay £200 'rent' and not the full amount. This meant that I was £200 short each month. I know I should have picked this up at the time, but I was so caught up in making sure my IVA was accepted that I didn't.
So everyone contemplating an IVA - make sure you read everything 10 times over, and if you don't agree with something, don't sign the proposal until you are satisfied that it is correct.
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