When it comes to money management, debt consolidation is one of those topics that can easily intimidate. While the idea is simple enough, the challenge of being approved for new credit and choosing the right credit product is where things quickly become complicated. This guide will walk you through each step, so you can make …
If you’ve taken the first steps to finally tackle your debts head on, it probably didn’t take all that long to come across a debt solution that seemed to be mentioned time and time again. We talk of course of an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (or IVA for short). Record numbers of individuals are turning to …
When you move outside of your native country you are said to be an expatriate of the country you are moving from. Many UK citizens move to various places around the world, some for work, some just to escape our weather. And one of the places many Brits move off to is the UAE. And …
Not all that long ago I actually moved to the UK to study the benefits of debt relief options there. There are familiar U.S. based creditors in the UK but they handle debt relief entirely differently. While the U.S. struggled with disreputable debt settlement providers, the UK required debt relief providers to actually hold a …
By Andrew Smith Last year I predicted it would be a record year for IVAs. There had already been more than 40,000 Individual Voluntary Arrangements, the most-used personal insolvency procedure in England and Wales, in the first nine months of the year and here at ClearDebt we were pretty confident the total for the year …
“Dear Steve, I am currently on IVA debt management plan. At the moment am unemployed. Struggling to pay my plan. Am a single mother of four children. This is surpose to take five years to be written off or get out of the debt. I am not coping with it. some days we go to …
“Dear Steve, I unfortunately was diagnosed with cancer couple of years ago. Due to such unexpected illness, I incurred more than a million HKD debt to cover my medical bills. I am currently working but not enough to cover my debt. I’m still not fully recovered so I’m not sure if I can keep the …
“Dear Jon, My wife and I are in an IVA and have made all the payments for the last six years. We have no equity in our house at this point. Can the creditors extend the Individual Voluntary Arrangement to eight years to make up for the lack of equity in our house? Ken” Hi, …
Brits in Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs) are finding that even after they have spent five years repaying their debt through the binding debt repayment approach they are still stuck in the IVA and can’t get out. As part of the IVA process in the UK, consumers are told they must file a claim for overpayments …
“Dear Jon, I am in an IVA. I have an equity release clause as follows: ‘After month 54 of the arrangment the Supervisor will obtain a professional valuation of the property. The debtor will then obtain two remortgage quotes from reputable brokers/lenders to satisfy the Supervisor that the equity realisation is the maximum achievable. The …
