Payment issues

[flowerchild]

What a mess! If it is not rectified by Wednesday at the latest, I think you should stop providing care until you are paid in full. If he protests, you could offer to continue care if he provides you with an official letter from his bank confirming what he has said and with an outline of when they believe it will be rectified.

By Wednesday he will owe you at least $100 in late payment fees!

[flowerchild]

I just re-read your post. DCG isn't in care this week, so you can't even suspend care as a consequence...not sure what you should do then...Wednesday will be about a week since his account was "frozen" there is no way it won't be resolved by then. Maybe ask for the letter from the bank to continue to hold his spot?

[3rdtimesacharm]

I agree, flowerchild. Do not provide care come Thursday morning until paid in full.
Do we really think his hydro, water, electric and phone companies will be willing to extend him 5 days grace due to a "bank issue"? I think not!
He is choosing who needs to be paid first, the other debtors came first and you seem to have fallen to the bottom of the "owing" pile.

[Spixie33]

Wow ! That is terrible. I hate having to ask parents for money- it seems disrepectful that we should have to hound someone when we performed the work in good conscience.

I don't believe a bank takes that long to resolve issues unless he is suddenly getting separated and the assets are frozen. Any other banking issues are dealt with very swiftly.

Do you have a security deposit incase he walks? Hopefully you at least have a week's deposit to recover your week of income if worse comes to worse.

[MonkeyPrincess]

I just re-read your post. DCG isn't in care this week, so you can't even suspend care as a consequence...not sure what you should do then...Wednesday will be about a week since his account was "frozen" there is no way it won't be resolved by then. Maybe ask for the letter from the bank to continue to hold his spot?

No, suspending care wouldn't make a difference this week, seeing as how the child isn't here. I expect to get paid on Wednesday. If that happens, then it's resolved and if there is another late payment then i will be asking for prepayment for the week. But (for some unknown and crazy reason) if i am not paid by Sunday, then i am not caring for the child on Monday.

[MonkeyPrincess]

I agree, flowerchild. Do not provide care come Thursday morning until paid in full.
Do we really think his hydro, water, electric and phone companies will be willing to extend him 5 days grace due to a "bank issue"? I think not!
He is choosing who needs to be paid first, the other debtors came first and you seem to have fallen to the bottom of the "owing" pile.

Yep unfortunately. And apparently, that's ok for parents to do?. Are my expenses not as important as his? I don't want to put everything on credit card when i usually use the cash for groceries and bills.

[MonkeyPrincess]

Wow ! That is terrible. I hate having to ask parents for money- it seems disrepectful that we should have to hound someone when we performed the work in good conscience.

I don't believe a bank takes that long to resolve issues unless he is suddenly getting separated and the assets are frozen. Any other banking issues are dealt with very swiftly.

Do you have a security deposit incase he walks? Hopefully you at least have a week's deposit to recover your week of income if worse comes to worse.

We shouldn't have to ask parents for the money they owe, and we certainly should not have to chase parents for it either, after we have already cared for their children. If the tables were turned, Parents would have a flippin' hayday if their workplace told them they couldn't pay them until a week from now. Imagine!

I don't have a deposit from this dcp that i can put forward.

[Van]

From now on ask for a deposit from each parent as they sign up with you and maybe be prepared put an ad in this website so if he is pushed out by you or leaves for some other reason you can be prepared - I would not like to leave daycare unpaid for a few days , but for some people money is tight these days

[haydenjack]

I always get paid in advance from parents because of past issues like this.