Ok thanks Clare , just been told only allowed £ 40 per child .

Can anybody tell me what the latest allowance is for children's school meals per month.
We have two teenagers at school costing us £ 2.20 a day totalling £ 88 for month for the two of them .

Thanks for that Foggy , wife did mention Yorksire as well . hopefully fingers crossed no problems , why should my kids suffer cos of my mess

Bit of advice if anyboby can help , my teenage daughter is wanting to open savings account with a bankcard so she can withdraw etc . Just wondering will they credit check wife as shes gona be the adult with her ? ( iva in my name only ). Also any good banks / societys ? . Got keep away from tsb , na...

Hi Abbiesmum , we had normal current account with Natwest ( no over draft ), we opened just before entering into iva in Nov 2012, alls been fine untill last week we received a letter ( NOT E MAIL ) from them telling us they were downgrading us to Basic account because they know we are in an iva now ...

Hi Cassey , you have done the hardest bit now, i was in the same situation in November last year . Using credit cards to live on and pay other credit cards, i was in about £ 33000 of debt , cards / loans. Make the phone call to an iva company and you wont belive the relief you will feel !! . My mont...

Hi Toto , yes its early days for me . like i said in my first post its my story so far . i can see reading your previous posts you had some issues with freeman jones , i dont expect a trouble free 5 yrs as our personal circumstances do change. But if i have any issuses i will post them on this forum...

Thanks guys for all your nice postive replies. If i had discovered this site earlier i would have gone with mel and her team, but like i said earlier cant fault Freeman Jones .

Iam quite new to this site after only recently discovering it after my IVA was set up. I am just wanting to share my story so far in the hope it might help others who are in debit wondering what to do . I like many on this forum slowly got into debit with 5 credit cards, bank loan and store cards et...