Martin Lewis has spoken out about the rise in threatening debt letters from finance companies - and what to do about it. The Money Saving Expert said that many people were getting the worrying claims - and said many of them were ‘false’ because they were targeting the wrong person.
Appearing on ITV’s this morning with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, he took calls from callers on the energy crisis and Cost of Living situation. In one 91-year-old Rita spoke of concerns about debt collection letters appearing at her address the ECHO reports.. The anxious pensioner said despite the letters being registered to her address, they were not in her name but instead to another family member who lives with her.
Being the primary tenant at the property, she asked Martin whether or not she should pay them off after being concerned about facing the consequences. This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby stressed that you should never pay off a debt that is not yours.
