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Pay affordable installments
Basic target for debt management is to bring the repayment amount to the affordable level. It all depends on what you can afford. Creditors can not ask you to pay more than what you can yield after cutting down your necessary expenses from your income, it is against law.
Make only one payment per month or week
You just have to pay off a single payment on monthly basis to your DMC (Debt Management Company), we further distribute it among your creditors. The amount to be paid all depends on what you are left with after cutting your essential expenses.
No need to deal directly with creditors
It is quite stress full and time consuming to deal with creditors. Therefore, you are provided with an option. What you can do is, you can forward any letters and refer any phone calls to your DMC. Afterwards they deal with them in behalf of you.
No need of negotiation from your end
All is handled by your debt management company. You do not need to scratch your head for the negotiation with your creditor.
Flexible repayment option
You are free to reduce or upgrade the payment amount if your circumstances changes. You can even leave the services if you find that you don't need them.
Reduced interest rate
Apart from reducing monthly installments special effort is put to reduce your existing APR. Often they succeed to freeze the APR with the consent of creditor.
Manage your finance more easily
With all that reduced burden running your life becomes more easier. Therefore, you can handle all your expenditure more easily.
Privacy maintained
You can hide your debt situation from people whom you don't want to show. This is totally up to you that whom you wish to open with.
Your long term credit rating not affected
If you pay off the amount regularly it is likely that your long term credit rating will not be affected. Once, you assure your creditor that you are regular with your payments, your credit history can never be ruined.
You can avoid IVA and Bankruptcy
In debt management program you get greater flexibility and an opportunity to rebuild your credit history. In IVA you have to live with many limitations. As far as Bankruptcy is concerned, it is the worst case whereby your credit rating passes through worst fall-back. So, in every aspect debt management plan plays a vital role.
You can avoid creditors' phone calls and warning letters
When you are not paying installments on time it is obvious that creditors will make frequent call and send warning letters to harass debtor. But while undergoing debt management program, when you start paying it on time, the frequency of phone calls and warning letters gradually decreases.
How a Debt Management Company works?
A Debt Management Company specifically targets on reducing your installments which allows you to make reduced repayments to your lenders (creditors) over a number of years. For this they do number of things which are as follows:
Calculate your income and outgoings
When you contact a debt company this is the first thing they do. They determine all your expenses and earnings. This is way they figure out how much you save.
Negotiate with your creditors
Once your left out salary is determined, they negotiate with your lenders (creditors) to accept the lower repayments.
Freezes your APR
They also speak to your creditors to freeze interest. This helps a lot in all your repayments period because it reduces the amount to much extent.
Handle all the distribution part
Payment is made to the debt company only, they further distribute it among all the creditors. So, you don't have to take much hassles.
Pick up all your conversation with your lender
During the repayment tenure lender speaks to your debt company only. You do not have to take the burden of making conversation to your creditor for every now and then reasons. Your debt company answers for every warning letter and phone calls of yours.
Start receiving balance statements
When you start up your repayment schedule you start getting statement of your balance from your creditors. This will ensure you that your creditors are being paid on time.
