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Your problems, with Anna Tims

Anna Tims writes your wrongs. Got a problem you want Anna to look into? Send your dilemmas to your.problems@observer.co.uk

  • Retirement homes being built by by McCarthy Stone.

    We have been left cold and wet in our leaking retirement home

    For 10 months McCarthy Stone have failed to repair the roof that is letting in water
  • An E.ON sign in red, yellow and blue.

    E.ON took direct debits from my son’s account after it was told of his suicide

    Now it says only his bank can refund the £700 – which it can’t
  • A Virgin Media O2 van outside a house

    Cheap Virgin Media O2 Volt broadband deal came at a high price

    I thought I’d closed my account but now three default notices are preventing me getting a mortgage
  • Posed picture of someone eating meatballs from a plastic container

    Waitrose won’t fork out after its meatball broke my tooth

    Eleven months on, it still won’t pay my dentist’s bill
  • A wheelchair beside a ramp at an airport

    American Airlines crew filmed my distress after wheelchair failed to arrive at Heathrow

    My pre-booked assistance did not arrive when my plane landed in London, but its staff did not help me
  • Forms for applying for carer's allowance.

    I’ve been denied carer’s allowance for eight months after I owned up to a job

    I have been left in limbo after I told the Department for Work and Pensions that holiday pay from a former job had pushed me over the earnings limit
  • Vrbo's website underneath a magnifying glass

    Vrbo’s luxury property bore no relation to the listing

    It cost £1,009, had one bedroom instead of three, and no heating. It was so miserable that we left
  • Close up of an envelope, on which is written in red pen 'Return - not at this address

    A stranger seems to have taken over our address

    We have been receiving numerous letters addressed to him and he’s even put his name on our water bills
  • View fromthe seats in question, showing several large tents and equipment stores blocking the view of a stadium stage

    We couldn’t see a thing in our VIP Taylor Swift seats

    I paid £2,649 for four tickets as a treat for my daughters, and all they had a view of was a tent and black plastic
  • Close up of an L&Q logo, with the slogan 'creating places where people want to live'

    L&Q sees the flaw in its 80% price rise

    Leaseholders were faced by a huge increase in service charges, which the housing association now realises was a mistake
  • A self-assessment notice from HMRC warning that the deadline has been missed

    HMRC is threatening my terminally ill father with debt collectors

    He is 92 and doesn’t actually owe the money, but there is nothing he can do to stop the tax demands coming
  • EE advertising its superfast broadband service.

    Yet more EE excuses over payout when our internet went down

    After a week-long delay to fix the problem, it only offered only £18.66 in compensation
  • Jet2's website

    Jet2 sold us a package holiday that didn’t exist - now it’s our problem to fix it

    It changed the accommodation for our booked trip to Crete, tailor-made for our foster son, just six weeks before departure
  • Axa  home insurance website.

    It’s game over after Axa raised my home insurance price by 70%

    Every year its renewal goes up by about 20%, then we negotiate. But this year it is playing hardball
  • Being able to push the panic button can be life saving.

    BT left my blind father without a panic button

    It didn’t work after it switched his landline to digital without warning
  • A telegraph pole outside a house

    Internet provider Brsk has blocked our home’s view

    An enormous telegraph pole appeared out of the blue, and council says there is nothing we can do
  • A letter about carer's allowance

    Dithering DWP owes me £1,300 in carer’s allowance

    I’m forced to survive on a credit card, racking up debts I can’t repay
  • ‘Recommendations you can rely on’: but does Checkatrade’s claim stand up?

    Does Checkatrade’s vetting really check out?

    With cowboy builders on the rise, is it worth trying an online platform instead? Our correspondents suggest there may be pitfalls
  • Saga insurance for the over-50s promises to 'put it right'.

    Insurer Saga has taken four months to repair my parents’ car

    It was hit by an uninsured driver after they bought it to accommodate a wheelchair for my disabled mother
  • A motorhome on the back of a recovery truck

    A botched RAC rescue turned our French road trip into an ordeal

    When our new motorhome broke down in France we felt unsafe and were stranded for five days
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