Recent Citizens Advice research among clients who “have a bailiff problem” sparked a debate here about how much people understand about bailiffs.
These concerns were heightened by a tweet from a commercial debt adviser, which should know better, talking about debt collectors and bailiffs as if they were interchangeable terms.
They are not – and if debt advisers don’t know the difference, where does that leave ordinary people, whose life is complicated enough even before they fall into unmanageable debt?
