{"id":11765,"date":"2012-03-12T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/?p=11765"},"modified":"2019-10-21T16:37:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:37:24","slug":"debt-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/debt-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anybody with a debt problem ought to have a look at the different choices around before selecting what course of action to plump for. Debt Management often is reckoned to be the poor relation in plethora of unsecured debt remedies. But without doubt, it remains very popular with people coming from a wide variety of backgrounds who have encountered personal financial difficulty. Here are a few of the reasons why it could be your best and indeed only course of action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Creditors might well be agreeable to a Debt Management Plan. While \ncreditors might generally prefer that individuals honour the terms of \ntheir original legal agreements and pay back the money they owe 100 % \nand in time they recognize that in the real world various borrowers are \ngoing to fail and threaten to go into default. In that case, lenders \nwant to maximize the amount of the lent money that they can recover and \nrecover the money in as quick a time as possible. A Debt Management Plan\n is a plan to repay all of the liabilities but at a slower pace than at \nfirst contracted and during a longer time than at first contracted. \nGiven that the Debt Management Plan pledges and projects settlement of \nthe debt in its entirety, from the perspective of the creditor, it is a \nclearly better solution than bankruptcy, because in bankruptcy only a \nsmall amount of debt is ordinarily paid back. A Debt Management Plan is \neven better than an Individual Voluntary Arrangement or IVA wherein \nlenders commonly get back less than half of the money owed and sometimes\n a lot less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You don\u2019t need to be insolvent to get into a Debt Management Plan either. Debt Management is really an informal course of action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nNot much legislation has been passed thus far in this area even though \ngovernment has been making promissory noises for many years now. There \nis a fair level of control by bodies such as the DTI and the OFT. Even \nthough between your income and assets there could be sufficient money to\n settle your debts in full in accordance with the terms of your \ncontracts with your creditors you may be disinclined or powerless at \npresent to execute some of the necessary actions to achieve this. You \nmight not wish to sell your property, for instance. Simply by entering \na Debt Management Plan you might be able to deal with your finances in a\n more organised way and sell or re-mortgage your home at a point in time\n that best suits you or when the marketplace is more favorable or when \nre-mortgage rates are more affordable. You do have to be insolvent in \norder to enter an IVA or to be proclaimed a bankrupt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Debt \nManagement Plan gets significantly less publicity than bankruptcy and \nmuch less than an IVA. Your neighbours, your work colleagues, your \nemployer, your friends and your family needn\u2019t learn about your Debt \nManagement Plan and while there aren’t any guarantees, there’s a pretty \ngood chance that you can keep the reports of your Debt Management Plan \naway from others of a nosy frame of mind. If there aren’t any creditors \namongst your neighbours, employer, work colleagues, friends or family \nmembers and so long as you behave prudently, then you can be fairly \npositive that you can keep your Debt Management Plan private. \nProfessional debt management service providers as well as CCCS, CAB and \nPayplan all provide total discretion and privacy in their transactions \nwith you and no data should be exposed by them to any others such as are\n mentioned above. Only your creditors will be contacted and even that \ncannot take place without your prior agreement and written \nauthorization. The typical procedure is that you would officially \nauthorize your Debt Management Plan provider to contact your lenders, to\n get or to validate information on your indebtedness from them and to \nnegotiate with them as your representative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might start off \nby going into a Debt Management Plan for a period of time and later \nenter into an IVA. Why would you want to do this and just how might it \nhelp you? One rationale is that your current situation might lack the \nmonetary stability necessary for an IVA at present but that after a \nfinite time period of let’s say six to twelve months, that stability \nmight be established. Then again your solvency standing might not be \napparent at first but you are convinced that you’ll come to be insolvent\n in the future. Or again, you might be undergoing divorce procedures at \nthe moment and there may be a lack of clarity pertaining to future \nincome or in relation as to how the marital assets are to be divided. It\n may be sensible in these conditions for you to go into a Debt \nManagement Plan until the divorce and its settlement terms are finalized\n and then to enter into an IVA if the divorce should bring on your \ninsolvency. In another scenario, you could possibly suffer a loss of \nyour employment and be made redundant. You could decide to become \nself-employed as, for instance, a taxi driver. Lenders would be likely \nto reject proposals for an IVA before any self employed trading record \nis established and so a brief timeframe Debt Management Plan might be \nthe best first strategy until you were trading for a realistic period of\n time and so be able to illustrate regular and steady earnings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Debt\n Management Plan may be the only financial choice accessible to you at \npresent. In certain jurisdictions such as Ireland, a Debt Management \nPlan could be the only financial remedy open to you. While bankruptcy is\n theoretically obtainable as an option in Ireland, the cost of the \nprocess and the draconian sanctions connected to it ensure it is an \nunworkable route for personal insolvency. Just a handful of bankruptcies\n occur annually in Ireland. There were just ten bankruptcies in Ireland \nin 2010 and just thirty three in 2011 and there is no insolvency process\n remotely similar to an IVA offered as yet under Irish Law to Irish \ncitizens living in Ireland. Whilst the government funded Money Advice \nand Budgeting Service (MABS) does offer advice to people in Ireland, \nthat organization doesn’t have the means to handle debt management plans\n to the same degree as professional DMP providers. The Irish Government \nis planning to enact a new personal insolvency law but it is likely to \nbe the end of 2012 before Irish citizens can take advantage of it.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Debt Management remains very popular with people coming from a wide variety of backgrounds who have encountered personal financial difficulty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debt-management-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11775,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11765\/revisions\/11775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaldebtrelief.co.uk\/debt-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}