“Dear Steve, My husband and I have recently bought our first home and made some other big purchases using credit and have gotten ourselves into debt and then to top it off, he was just laid off, so we are down to just my income and much more than that in monthly payments. How can …
Alexandra “Dear Steve, My mother and I live together (I support her). Based on an agreement with my step-father, he has paid my mother’s rent for the past 15 years. Unfortunately, due to a family dispute in January, he cut me off and stopped paying the rent, which left me scrambling to cover. Once my …
Kim “Dear Steve, I work fulltime and owe $24000.00 in credit cards. I am currently enrolled in CCCS and I am having a hard time making my monthly payment. I have payed 671.00 for 2 months now, but the 3rd month is due and all I have in my bank account is 25.00. Medical finaces …
Heather “Dear Steve, I am a recent MBA grad who got into a lot of debt before and during school because I needed to help out my family. Due to my dad taking out cash advances on my credit cards and then my having to live off my credit cards during school because I had …
“Dear Steve, I can’t meet my monthly payments. I lost my job after 23 years, but have found another one and am currently working, but fell behind and cannot seem to catch up! My credit isn’t good because of late payments. I do have decent income, but fell behind and am drowning just trying to …
“Dear Steve, I had a knee operation will be out of work for 9 months I am $80,000 in credit card debt. My wife and I earn $4,300 a month and I pay out with mortgage and all my necessary bills, $3,800. I don’t have enough money to pay credit cards. John” Dear John, I’m …
Patrick Bryan, a debt adviser friend of mine from Northern Ireland, and I were chatting recently about the universal nature of debt problems in the world. It became apparent that while we are all told that we live in an interconnected global economy it seems that the consumers of each country continue to suffer in …