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Credit Card Debt Consolidation
An IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement) is a debt relief plan set up by the government of the day to try to eliminate personal debt and deal generally with the issue of credit card debt consolidation. Our associates are licenced to give advice and do so on the understanding of the fact that Individual voluntary arrangements are not designed to be one-size-fits-all cures to any debt problem, as individual circumstances can vary so much.
The needs of one person can vary greatly from the needs of another person or household. Any IVA advice given must take into account the diverse nature of the situation people find themselves in.
In general an Individual Voluntary Arrangement will run for 60 months (sometimes less) and when this is complete all the debts are discharged from a person's credit record. During this time banks are not permitted to pursue or harass the debtor. The IVA has the benefits of bankruptcy and none of the disadvantages of some other forms of credit card debt consolidation.
An IVA will write off the larger part of your debt at the beginning of the programme (although beware of the exaggerated claims in some advertising: it is seldom more than 60 or 65 per cent of unsecured debt which can be cancelled in this way). Any good IVA advice of this nature will ensure that you get the best results with the lowest repayment options together with the greatest percentage of debt write-off.
So fill in the application form for independent and impartial IVA advice which is right for your own situation.
We have a super-quick and highly professional debt consolidation service. A qualified and experienced Insolvency Practitioner will be personally assigned to you and you will get a telephone call back from him or her very quickly (or whenever you specify on the online form).
Credit Card Debt Consolidation
As easy as the cards come, the debt continues to follow just as easily. Eventually, this credit card debt becomes increasingly larger and the ability to pay with your card at so many places can begin to add up and become unmanageable. A good credit card debt consolidation plan will encourage you to list all of your creditors and therefore make an inventory of the entire debt that is due. Sometimes this includes every payment that you make and compares it with what you must pay immediately and those that can wait longer.
Credit card debt consolidation is a way of fighting against the pernicious and creeping spread of credit availability. People who begin to get credit are soon offered multiple lines of credit, sometimes with high interest rates since they are more of a risk and are just beginning to establish themselves. Credit card companies are also more likely to realize that, over time, you will continue to increase your income and be able to handle more credit. That is, if you can make it that long. The reality is that, in just a short while, your credit rating can be ruined by overextended credit card debt. This can not only affect your day to day finances but also your credit score. This can make it very hard to obtain new credit once you have cleared up the debt issues, since it appears that you are unable to manage your financial responsibilities in an adequate manner.
People more commonly use credit cards because you can charge them now and worry about paying later. The reality is that many people in credit card debt spend more than their income will allow. If this bad habit continues, they are not only forced into debt consolidation but could possibly lose access to all of their credit cards and many other financial resources besides. Indeed, part of the credit card debt consolidation management plan should always include debt management and changing spending behavior to ensure that they are not in the same situation.
One thing to remember is that just because someone puts into practice good credit card debt consolidation management plans the first time, the real change comes when their spending habits are also changed. Otherwise, they will be back to the same situation in just a short while. Often when you are in debt consolidation and you acquire new debt, this new debt will not be included in the old consolidation plan. People may end up making more than one payment to several places and thus increase their credit card balances again.
The real answer is prudence. Every one of us must draw up a list of incomings and outgoings and keep to that plan solidly. There is no escaping from this hard fact of life. As Mr Micawber immortally said, in Dickens' novel David Copperfield, "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."
That's a lesson that is as true now as it was then. What a shame there was no such thing as credit card debt consolidation in Mr Micawber's day!
Now go back up to the application form and change your life today!
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Take a look at the Insolvency Service's leaflet called 'In Debt', downloadable here.
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