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Scheduling Debt

One of the first steps to clearing your debts is to understand your household expenses. To do this accurately, you should set out all of your income and outgoings in a schedule of means. This is a useful document to include with any correspondance to your creditors or their agents. You can fill in a statement of means by clicking here.

We have provided a calculator to enable you to work out a pro-rata payment schedule for your creditors. This can be sent to your creditors along with your statement of means. You can fill out a schedule of creditors by clicking here.

Once you have completed a schedule of creditors, you should approach preferred creditors first and obtain written confirmation of any reduction in payments you agree with them before you contact other creditors. Your schedule of creditors may need to be modified to increase preferred creditor payments.

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County Court Judgments

If you fail to pay a creditor and don’t reply to their reminders there are several things that they can do.

If it is a secured debt for example, a hire purchase agreement they can repossess the goods without going to court if you have paid less than one third of the total sum. You will still have to pay the majority of the balance.[More..]

Bailiff harassment
Harassment of people in debt by creditors or their agents is a criminal offence under the Administration of Justice Act 1970.

It is often difficult to know what to do when you feel a creditor is not dealing with your account fairly. In order for you to identify what activities by your creditors may involve harassment and what can be done about the problem, this article outlines:
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Credit Cards
For a great many of us the money runs out before the month does and then the temptation to use our credit cards to pay the bills kicks in. This is the beginning of the debt spiral and just what the credit card companies are counting on:. [More..]
 

Did you know...

According to a recent statement from the Citizens Advice Bureau, it could take 77 years on average for people asking for help with debt to get back into the black.

Britain's personal debt is increasing by £1 million every four minutes.