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Why Reduce Your
Credit Card Debt?
Reduction of your
outgoings so that we can keep afloat during the current financial situation
is important for us all. We need to prioritise the important things
like our mortgage or rent, our clothes and the food we eat, as these
are the necessary things we need to live.
But you could also
reduce your credit card debt in order to have more money left over for
the other things. You could do this because nowadays there is no room
for wasted expenditure. Financial consultants will tell us that we can
always make cuts in this expenditure, and the easiest way to make those
cuts is by identifying which of these we do not need to pay.
How Do You Reduce
Your Credit Card Debt?
If you want to reduce
your credit card debt there are two broad means of doing it (these are
both perfectly legal, by the way).
- Determine whether
the debt is valid in law.
- Enter into a
legally binding agreement to reduce it.
When you want to
reduce your credit card debt then the first of these is the place to
start. If a credit agreement was drafted before April 6th 2007 and it
does not meet the provisions of the Consumer Credit Act (1974, amended
2006), then it cannot be enforced, even by a court. Whether we want
to take advantage of this is up to the individual conscience. But most
people would share the assumption that there is no point paying good
money into something where we don't legally need to.
When greedy bankers
booked more business than they could look after, resulting in the present
mess, is it our fault if we apply the law which was set in place to
protect us?
Seventy percent
of such credit contracts taken out before 6th April 2007, it is thought,
can never be enforced because they were improperly drafted.
The other legal
way to reduce your credit card debt is to apply for an Individual Voluntary
Arrangement or IVA, which writes off up to 70 percent (sometimes even
a bit more) of your total debt and provides for the remainder to be
paid off over 60 months. This is done by a qualified Insolvency Practitioner
(not by a commission-based salesman) and is a legally binding instrument.
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