Can Only End Well

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The agency will be able to target a range of missed payments – from A&E bills to court fines – and will have the power to raid people’s bank accounts for the money that is owed. Officials with the centralised collection agency would also be able to extract money from pensions and welfare payments.
…Carried out by consultancy firm BearingPoint, the report acknowledges how unpopular such an agency would be, as it suggested careful ‘selling’ to ministers of the benefits of such a body would be required.

….The BearingPoint experts, specially hired by the Government, have even advised that bailiffs be allowed to remove personal goods in extreme cases….

Pay Up Or The State Will Raid Your Bank Account (Senan Molony, Irish Daily Mail) unavailable online

 

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19 thoughts on “Can Only End Well”

  4. bisted

    …guessed that was a Daily Mail headline….here’s another scoop for you Senon…Government can take your cash before it even reaches the bank – attachment of earnings judgements.

  6. Rep

    I like the way that the first line of the article is at odds with the headline and sub-headline which both imply that it will happen.

  7. Franco

    It’s disgraceful but typical of a ‘nanny’ state.
    She wants her “daughter to have a gastric band – but she won’t”

    1. stev

      I have unfortunately. It really is set up to tap into that market of Independent readers who aren’t scared enough by the tripe that’s peddled out of that rag. Sadly, that’s a lot of people in this country.

    2. Paul

      A former colleague of mine did. Turns out that he was a sexual predator though who was arrested and subsequently fired
      Total weirdo who used to carry knives around with him.
      Obvs not representative of all Mail readers;)

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