Debt Management

What is Debt Management?

Debt management is a debt solution allowing you to consolidate debt in to one affordable payment without further borrowing.

You make one affordable payment to the debt management company, who distributes it between your creditors. The level of the reduced payments depends upon individual circumstances.

How debt management works

The debt management company (us) takes a financial statement from you detailing your income and all necessary outgoings, included your credit repayments. If this shows contractual repayments exceed your disposable income, the debt management company uses this as evidence to your creditors that you can't afford such payment levels.

This works as under the 1974 consumer credit act, unsecured creditors can't ask you for more than your disposable income once reasonable essential living expenses have been taken into account.

Qualifying for a debt management plan

You will be eligible for a debt management plan / programme if you have at least 3 different creditors, can't afford current contractual repayments, but can afford at a minimum of £100 per month towards your debts.

Why Use Abacus Debt Management

Abacus advises on the full range of debt solutions, not just debt management. Therefore you can be assured that we will only recommend debt management if is the most appropriate solution for you. If your situation is best suited to an IVA, remortgage, debt consolidation loan, debt management plan or even just better budgeting, we will advise accordingly.

Debt Management Case Study

Debt: £12,950, Old Payments: £350, New Payments: £180
This client had affordable credit repayments until her husband lost his job, halving the household income. Two months later their savings were running low so they decided to look for a consolidation loan to reduce monthly payments.
They were for refused for loans as their income was too low and they were not homeowners. Soon they would start to miss payments and needed a solution. The client looked an IVAs but her husband would be returning to work and an IVA would be too permanent as their circumstances would be changing. Debt Management was the right solution for them because the payments were flexible and could be increased when they were both working again.
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