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Debt management pros and cons
Sometimes, debt can be difficult to keep track of, and before you know it, it could become unmanageable.
A debt management plan could allow you to make just one affordable monthly payment that reflects your circumstances, allowing you to bring your finances back under control.
It is important to understand, though, that a debt management plan won’t be suitable for everyone – so to help you see if one could be right for you, you may want to take a look at the following advantages and disadvantages of debt management.
Pros
• You could lower your monthly outgoings and make just one monthly payment on a debt management plan (to the debt management company that would then distribute funds among your creditors). The payment you make will be based on what you can realistically afford today – not what you could afford when you took on your debts in the first place.
• Debt management plans can be flexible. This means that if your situation was to change once the plan was in progress, and that meant you could no longer afford your payments, your debt management representative might be able to speak to your creditors and ask them to accept a different monthly payment amount that reflects your new circumstances.
Cons
• Your unsecured creditors aren’t obliged to accept any new repayment terms. However, if they think that accepting them is the best way to get their money back, they are likely to agree.
• You may be in debt for longer as you are repaying smaller amounts each month. What’s more, the interest could cost you more overall, as you are repaying your debt over a longer timeframe (although your creditors may agree to freeze interest).
What is debt consolidation?
Debt consolidation occurs when people run into financial hardship or are trying to gain more favourable interest rates or lower repayments on existing debts. It consists of applying for a single loan to pay off a number of other debts. This can be beneficial as there will be only one repayment to a creditor as opposed to two or more and better interest rates can be granted as well as lower monthly repayments.
Debt consolidation can mean a number of unsecured loans or credit combined into another unsecured loan or credit agreement; however it is more often moved to a secured loan offset against the individual’s assets such as a property which serves as collateral. If the new credit agreement is secure then this often results in a lower interest rate than if unsecured as the lenders risks are lowered, however the assets will then become at risk if the repayment agreement is not adhered to.
When a person is paying off credit with high interest rates, for example across multiple credit cards, then debt consolidation could be a viable resolution. This is simply because credit cards and other similar forms of credit such as store cards hold a very high interest rate in comparison to a bank loan, whether secured or not.
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