Debt Management Loans
The unsecured debts may include:
· Credit Cards
· Bank Overdrafts
· Personal Loans
· Outstanding balances.
· Business Loans you are personally liable.
Typically, such debts are out of control – payments are late and/or take too large a portion of income, or even exceed it.
The Debt Management Company will then assess the income and budget, and re-negotiate interest rates and payments with the lenders/debtor’s creditors. It should also ask creditors not to take any legal or recovery action provided the debtor keeps making their regular payments.
Payments are made until the debt is full cleared or until the debtor is able to make the full repayments again. Repayments are based on what he can afford after a realistic income and expenditure has been drawn up.
Anyone can apply for the DMP. It can be an individual who:
· Cannot payback his creditors when his payment falls due.
· Whose liabilities exceed his assets or expenses are more than their income.
· Is declared bankrupt.
MANAGING YOUR DEBTS: DEBT MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
A debt management program is simply managing your debts through a well designed program.
A debt management program will combine all your existing loans into one manageable loan. The debt manager will negotiate a plan with your lenders to see how much they will allow you to pay.
A Debt management plan is not a loan, in many cases a debt management might require another loan to consolidate and manage all existing loans.
Most debt managers will ask you to opt in for a consolidation loan to be able to repay the loans
DEBT CONSOLIDATION LOAN
Debt Consolidation is the act of combining several loans or debts into one low payment which offers two economic advantages: Lower interest rates and simplicity
This is a loan used to pay back other loans and eventually become debt free. It’s a way to combine your existing loans into one loan and one simple monthly payment. The magic of being debt free is being wise with your money; that is the only solution.
ADVANTAGES OF DEBT MANAGEMENT LOAN
· Debt Management Plan will help in reducing the monthly installments towards unsecured debts with one single affordable payment
· Instead of dealing with different creditors, the debtor will have to deal with one creditor and that is the DMP
· Low Interest Rate
· You make payments that you can afford.
· Your re- payments are re-evaluated frequently so that any changes to your financial situation can be taken into account.
· The DMP Company makes payment to your creditors monthly.
DISADVANTAGES
· Debt management plans are not legally binding so creditors don’t have to agree to repayment plans scheduled. However, if the plan works well the creditors may co-operate.