Credit card and unsecured debt piling up can create a snowball effect and several adversities therein. Disrupting any means to budget your bills, increasing fees and minimum monthly payments are hurting Americans nationwide. Credit debt alone is making it harder and harder for consumers to stay afloat, much less get ahead in these trying times. This ongoing crunch on the economy and job instability has created crossroads to crashing points on the road to financial freedom, leaving many Americans in disarray.
In lieu of, there are many ways which you can eliminate your debts and become debt free.
• Credit Counseling
• Debt Settlement
• Bankruptcy
A credit counseling program is also known as a debt management plan. Credit counseling is the process of consolidating all your unsecured debts into one payment plan through an agency where lower, fixed interest rates (APRs) are obtained and late, over limit, and past due fees cease once enrolled. You make a payment each month to the agency and they send payments out to each one of your creditors every month. The creditors still send you statements monthly which show the reduced rates and the payments being made on your behalf by the credit counseling agency. The biggest advantages with this method is the convenience of one monthly payment, a reduction in fees, the stopping of additional fees, and an improved credit score over time from the consecutive monthly payments and continuing balance reductions. Your best bet in this arena is to work with a non-profit agency that you’ve verified with the BBB as a reputable company. Continue reading ‘Pay Off Debt – You Have Options’ »