Tips for Credit Counseling Success
Not everyone who enters a credit counseling program finishes the program with their debt paid off. Many people end up filing bankruptcy. Others simply quit the program and maybe pay their debts on their own. Even though you’ve enlisted the help of a credit counseling program, you’re still responsible for making sure the program works. Here are some things you can do to make sure credit counseling is successful.
Follow the credit counseling agency’s rules and advice. The credit counseling agency will give you some tips and advice that you should follow while you’re on the debt management plan. As much as you may want to do differently, it’s important that you follow this advice until you’ve completely paid off your debt.
Make your payments on time. If you don’t send your payment to the credit counseling agency on time, then the credit counseling agency can’t make payment to your creditors on time. Late payments can still generate late fees and worse, the credit card issuer may drop the debt management plan. When that happens, your credit card interest rate and minimum payment will go back to what they were before you enrolled in credit counseling.
Confirm that your payments are being sent. Even though you’ve trusted the credit counseling agency to make payments to your creditors, you still need to make sure that’s being done. Continue to check your monthly credit card statements to confirm that your payments are sent on time and that the right payment amount has been made.
Don’t create more debt. One of the criteria for making any debt management solution work is to avoid creating more debt while you’re trying to pay off your current debt. Adding more debt will only make it harder to keep up your debt payments. You could reverse the progress you’ve made paying off your debts.
Pay extra when you can. Most debt management plans aim to have your debt repaid within three to five years. You can pay off your debt sooner than that if you make extra payments. Make sure you understand how the credit counseling agency handles additional payments. If you have a say in the matter, direct them to send the extra payment to a specific debt, preferably the one with the highest interest rate.
A credit counseling agency can do so much to help you pay off your debt. You also have to take some important steps to make sure debt payoff really happens.
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- Debt Management Plan: A Crucial Part of Consumer Credit Counseling
- Choose a Reputable Credit Counseling Agency and Avoid Scams
- Debts That Work Best for Credit Counseling
- Clearing Up the Confusion Between Debt Consolidation and Credit Counseling
- Comparing Debt Settlement to Other Debt Solutions
- Warning: How to Spot a Debt Consolidation Scam
- How to Know When Debt Consolidation is Right for You
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