Wage garnishments and collections
in Law ·
I am reaching out to ask for some serious help here. We are living through such a brutal economic crisis, and frankly, the things happening around us are stomach-turning. Human stupidity has reached a point where they are actually picking pockets of ordinary people.
Here is the situation: back in May 2011, we switched our service from AT&T over to Verizon. Despite leaving them, AT&T had the audacity to send us a bill for $67 covering June of that same year—even though we hadn't been their customers for an entire month.
Fast forward nearly two years later, and now my husband’s Social Security benefits have been frozen for $600. The reason given? This supposed debt to AT&T regarding those $67 plus legal fees that conveniently equal the exact amount of his monthly check.
Like anyone else, we don't have a paper trail for a bill from two years ago, so we can't prove anything. But more importantly, they didn't even send us a warning! This all happened completely out of the blue.
No notice, no warning, just a charge for services we never even used during that month.
Does anyone know how we can fix this mess? Has anyone dealt with something similar? We desperately need your advice!!! Thank you so much.
Here is the situation: back in May 2011, we switched our service from AT&T over to Verizon. Despite leaving them, AT&T had the audacity to send us a bill for $67 covering June of that same year—even though we hadn't been their customers for an entire month.
Fast forward nearly two years later, and now my husband’s Social Security benefits have been frozen for $600. The reason given? This supposed debt to AT&T regarding those $67 plus legal fees that conveniently equal the exact amount of his monthly check.
Like anyone else, we don't have a paper trail for a bill from two years ago, so we can't prove anything. But more importantly, they didn't even send us a warning! This all happened completely out of the blue.
No notice, no warning, just a charge for services we never even used during that month.
Does anyone know how we can fix this mess? Has anyone dealt with something similar? We desperately need your advice!!! Thank you so much.