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What is Dealing with Your Debt? In today’s materialistic world, it is easy to fall prey to “spending fever”. It is very common these days to purchase items on credit. Thus many Canadians end up facing financial problems, when they spend more money than they can afford. The first step to dealing with debt is to recognize its existence before it is too late.

Debt problems arise for an average Canadian when they continually overshoot their budget and let payments on credit cards grow much too high. Always borrowing money and paying only the monthly interest charges without reducing their total debt can also lead to financial problems. Having these problems can lead to dire consequences, such as creditors pressuring one to complete their payments, threatening to sue, repossession of assets such as furniture and appliances, etc.

There are many ways in which a Canadian citizen may solve his financial problems. The most straightforward method of dealing with debt would be for the debtor to contact the creditor and explain their situation to them. Many creditors are usually open to suggestions for lowered payments and extended time periods of payment.
Many Canadian provinces have credit counseling services that can help debtors, among other things, to make reasonable budget plans and stick to them.

When a debtor has too large a number of creditors to keep a track of, it is sometimes a good idea to ask a bank to combine all the debts into one loan, with which they can pay all of their creditors what they are owed. The debtor will, in return, need to make monthly payments to just one creditor – the bank. Dealing with debt is made much easier when there is just one creditor.

Different banks provide different interest rates, and so it would be wise to carefully consider one’s options before making a well-informed decision. When deep in debt, it is necessary to put a stop to purchasing items on credit. The continued use of credit simply enlarges the debt load until it becomes too much to handle.

In Quebec, it is possible to be emancipated from harassment by creditors and salary garnishment, by making use of the “Voluntary Deposit Scheme” which is also referred to as the “Lacombe Law”. The scheme makes dealing with debt much easier by allowing a debtor to make monthly payments based on income to a local courthouse. The court will then mete out the payments to the appropriate creditors. This scheme allows the debtor to pay off their debts over a period of three years.

When debts grow too large to handle, only two options remain open to a Canadian debtor. One is to file a consumer proposal; the other is to file for bankruptcy. Consumer proposals aid one in dealing with debt, by negotiating with creditors the reduction of the amount owed and the time period over which the amount is to be paid. If the proposal is rejected, the debtor has no choice but to file for bankruptcy. What is Dealing with Your Debt?

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