Only half of day laborers who had experienced wage theft did anything to recover their unpaid wages, including even asking their employer for the money they owed them.
I may have unpaid bills for electricity and for the telephone on my desk, but I'll pay them tomorrow, and after I pay them then they will be paid bills.
Ever the optimist, Kepler tried heading back to Prague and asking the treasury for unpaid wages that Rudolf II had owed him, but they simply laughed him out of the city.
Even though she was on her husband's insurance plan, repeated rounds of surgery, radiation, and chemo had bumped her up against the policy's lifetime limits, leaving them with $12,000 in unpaid medical bills.
H.P.D. means Hotel Protective Department, which is the department of a large agency that looks after check bouncers and people who move out by the back stairs leaving unpaid bills and second-hand suitcases full of bricks.
She could ask a probation officer to fill it out, but they may send her to the county clerk's office, who is going to need her to pay off any outstanding fines or fees she might have.
And many people have said that cults represent the unpaid bills of the mainstream religions, that these people did not find the religion in which they were raised or the religion that's predominant in society satisfying to them.