After todays updates I've seen improvement and my previous issues are no longer a problem, but I've experienced a new issue - I receive the notification to that bills are due, but the option to pay on any object it would usually appear on is not available. My sim collected mail and got a bill however clicking it does nothing and I still don't have any way to pay them.
note: it does seem that every week my bills are similar and the previous weeks that I couldn't pay have not been added to my next round of bills