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: £19,139, Old Payments: £534, New Payments: £200
Client had separated from her partner and then found out she was pregnant. She was working but was still in her probation period so was not entitled to full maternity pay. Due to the two large changes in her circumstances coupled with the increase of expense of being a single parent with a new born meant that her finances went out of control. She knows this can't continue and this is a realistic option for clearing her debts. A consolidation loan is not an option as she has nothing to secure it against and the debt is too large for an unsecured loan.
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