Apply Debt Settlement IVA
Independent Advice.
No Bankruptcy. No loss of Dignity.
A debt settlement
IVA is a debt relief plan set up by the government to provide a solution
to the problem of personal debt and deal with the growing issue of personal
insolvency. We are licenced to give Individual Voluntary Arrangement
advice on the basis of the fact that IVAs are never designed to be one-size-fits-all
remedies to any problem with money, because each person's circumstances
are different.
The needs of one
household or one individual can vary greatly from the needs of another
person or household. Any IVA advice given must take into account the
uniqueness of the situation people find themselves in.
Generally a debt
settlement IVA will be set to run for 60 months and when the term has
finished all debt is cleared from the credit history. During all this
time no banks are allowed to contact the debtor. The IVA carries with
it all the benefits of bankruptcy while having none of the disadvantages.
An instrument such
as this will write off the bulk of a person's debt at the beginning
of the programme (although be wary of the exaggerated claims in some
advertising: it is rarely more than 60 or 65% of total unsecured debt
which can be 'written off'). All good IVA advice will make sure you
get optimum results with the lowest repayment options together with
the highest percentage of debt write-off at the outset.
So complete the
form for independent and impartial IVA advice for your
own circumstances.
The IVA will be compiled by an insolvency practitioner
who will be qualified in such matters and have a working knowledge of
a debt settlement IVA. The total amount of debt and the total number of
creditors will be considered together. Incomings and outgoings of the
client will also be looked at and a monthly balance sheet will be drawn
up with the knowledge of the client and the creditors. Essential bills
will be paid first before any of the creditors are considered. The total
capital sum of debt can be reduced in this way by as much as sixty per
cent or more, and any money left over is set aside every month to reduce
the debt in this structured way and on a considerably reduced basis.
An Individual voluntary arrangement is legally binding and there are
certain things that creditors are bound by law not to do when the Individual
voluntary arrangement is in place. This restriction includes not being
permitted to contact you by phone or letter, or to attempt to contact
you at all as long as this arrangement exists. If the creditor or his
one of his agents (i.e. a debt collector) tries to contact you during
this time they will be in breach of the IVA. Creditors (such as banks,
credit card companies, etc.) must stop all letters and phone calls and
should on no account try to conflict with the day to day life of the
client.
It's true that a debt settlement IVA may well help people reorganise
their busy lives and improve things generally. It is a carefully crafted
program devised to get ordinary people out of their financial difficulties
and brought about and designed to ease the relatively harsh individual
insolvency laws that existed.
Individual voluntary arrangements (IVAs) are generally designed to
run for a 5 year span, though this can be adapted at the outset to satisfy
individual specifications. In Scotland, where they are known as trust
deeds or protected trust deeds, the term is usually 3 years but may
be 4 or 5 years. With both the Individual voluntary arrangement and
also the trust deed the debtor client is safeguarded from predatory
creditors by the various insolvency laws and their debts are completely
and utterly removed at the end of the span (however long that may be
set to run).