When you have a lot of different debts and are struggling to manage them, it can be a real task just working out which options are going to help your situation. The advice of professional debt experts is invaluable if you’re in this position, as the best option for you is something that’s really impossible to say without looking at the details of your case.
(more…)If you’re being pursued for debts, it can seem like you have fewer and fewer options as time passes, and that the time to sort things out is pretty short. However, IVAs are specifically designed to help people in these sorts of situations.
(more…)If your situation has gotten to the point where you need the advice of an Insolvency Practitioner, it’s vital that you get the information you need. A good IP will ensure that you understand your choices, as well as their possible consequences.
(more…)If you have personal unsecured debt that you are considering using an IVA for, you should bear in mind that any assets that you have may be incorporated into the IVA.
(more…)Anyone who is considering entering a Debt Management Plan should take time to learn about the essential facts of the Debt Management Plan and the way it deals with personal debt problems before taking the plunge.
(more…)When a self employed trader becomes insolvent and seeks to offer proposals to creditors for an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA), HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is highly likely to be one of those creditors. The self employed insolvent trader is likely to have liabilities for tax, national insurance, VAT or overpayment of tax credits. The approach that HMRC takes may be critical to the approval or rejection of such an IVA proposal, particularly when the HMRC debt exceeds the 25% threshold of the total debt owed to the creditors who are likely to vote. It behoves the insolvent trader therefore to consider carefully those factors which HMRC deem to be important in reaching their decision as to whether to vote for or against the trader’s proposal or even to abstain from voting entirely.
(more…)Anyone who is considering entering a Debt Management Plan should take time to learn about the essential facts and how it deals with personal debt problems before taking the plunge.
(more…)What concerns most people who find themselves insolvent and who are forced to enter into an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) or into a Debt Management Plan (DMP) or who on a voluntary or compulsory basis adopt the Bankruptcy solution, is the long term damage to their credit rating.
(more…)Shakespeare wrote about the Seven Ages of Man describing the various succeeding phases of the life of a person of normal lifespan from their birth to their passing. It occurred to me that an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) takes on a life of its own too, albeit its normal lifespan is but half a decade rather than four score years and ten or whatever a human being’s life expectancy is nowadays.
(more…)A debtor must be insolvent before he or she can offer an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) to creditors. Furthermore the debtor must be able to make contributions to the IVA in part repayment of debts to creditors and be able to pay the administrative costs of the arrangement. Such contributions may consist of a lump sum, as for example the proceeds from the sale of a property or equity released via a re-mortgage or funds provided by a family member. More usually however, debtors make contributions into the IVA from their disposable income. An IVA may also consist of a combination of a lump sum payment with regular monthly contributions from income.
(more…)Co-habiting partners, whether married or not, share most aspects of their lives. Although each partner may earn their own income independently of their other half, many such couples share the burden of paying for their normal living expenses on a mutual basis.
(more…)No official statistics are kept on the number of people who are in Debt Management Plans (DMPs) in the UK. This is partly because it is a voluntary and informal process consisting of an agreement between a debtor and his creditors. The debtor may reach this agreement with or without the help of a third party such as a Debt Management Company or an organization such as CAB or CCCS.
(more…)If you consistently earn more than you spend the difference is joy. If you usually spend more than you earn the difference is misery. The difference between what you earn and what you spend is called net disposable income or net Disposable Income. Earnings of course are what you get into your hand after tax and National Insurance contributions and other at source deductions such as pension contributions are excluded. Should you be lucky enough to have other unearned income, such as rental income from a lodger, you should add this onto your income to arrive at your total Disposable Income.
(more…)The Law Reform Commission (LRC) in Ireland set up an expert group to make recommendations for reform of Irish law relating to personal debt and it has now reported back. It strongly recommended legislation setting up a Debt Settlement System which would be characterised by the following general approach and considerations:
(more…)An expert group has just reported back to the Law Reform Commission (LRC) in Ireland with their recommendations for reform of Irish law relating to personal insolvency. While the bulk of the report deals with the problem of mortgage arrears, it also addresses personal debt i.e. unsecured non-mortgage personal debt.
(more…)If you are not able to pay your financial obligations as they fall due or have fallen behind in your repayments to loan providers then you might already have begun to endure creditor harassment. It quite often begins with receiving harmless looking reminder letters delivered in your post after which it escalates to delivery of slightly more aggressive letters, with large bold lettering of the phrase ‘OVERDUE’ normally coloured red.
(more…)A Debt Management Plan is a straightforward means which can be used to lower and pay off your entire outstanding unsecured debts without having to acquire any additional funds than what you already have.
(more…)Just because you have a substantial level of unsecured personal debts doesn’t necessarily mean that you are insolvent. For a start you may have a good income and sufficient disposable income to easily make the contractual payments on your loan agreements. Alternatively, while you may have low income and little or no disposable income, if you have saleable assets such as a house in which there is substantial equity, you may not have a problem. Provided you are willing to sell your property or to re-mortgage it to release equity, your financial problems can be addressed.
(more…)What concerns most people who find themselves insolvent and who are forced to enter into an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) or into a Debt Management Plan (DMP) or who on a voluntary or compulsory basis adopt the Bankruptcy (BCY) solution, is the long term damage to their credit worthiness.
(more…)If you have money worries and feel that you may be insolvent, you might like to learn about an Individual Voluntary Arrangement, commonly called an IVA, and how it might help you. Knowing what an IVA is and understanding the IVA process makes it easier when you have to decide whether to engage in this process or try some other possible solution for your financial distress.
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