Rejected petition Suspend debt, proceedings and collection for the duration of Covid 19 emergency

Parlament needs to suspend the following:

All debts and interest or fees added.

Collection and communications

Any court or baliff proceedings

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By not doing the above it adds stress and anxiety to those now already made vulnerable to decline in mental due to the covid 19 pandemic, and those previously struggling to further cause trauma and spiral those further into poverty in a global pandemic and emergency. Allowing baliffs and court proceedings it would be exploiting those vulnerable individuals and people now made financially vulnerable by the pandemic by the use of the fact they can be targeted at home due to isolation guidelines.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Arrangements for the payment and collection of debts are a matter for individual creditors and the courts, not the Government or Parliament.

We have published a petition calling on the Government to Legislate to limit interest rates on lending during Covid-19 outbreak, which you might like to sign: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/304268

We have also published a petition calling on the Government to encourage lenders to suspend interest, fees and repayments during COVID-19, which you might also like to sign: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/305297

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support

You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips

You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/

You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/

Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 26 March 2020
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