Liza Lambert

Certified credit counselor has spent time thoroughly reviewing your financial situation (debt management companies conduct in-depth interviews with their customers about income and expenditure), and has offered you customized advice on managing your money. That is when your enrollment into debt management programs begins. It’s necessary because debt management plan is appropriate not for all customers. Even if a 1debt management plan is just for you, a reputable credit counseling organization still can help you to create a budget and teach you money management skills.

Debt management companies or agencies offer to help people in debt. They will usually deal with non-priority debts. Most debt management companies charge a fee. But they compensate this fee in the following way: you pay the payment to the company and it distributes it among different creditors. So, you don’t have to deal with debt problems because you are enrolled into debt management program.

Debt management plan is popular among the customers because of the following reasons: there is only one payment; customers do not have to do any work in relation to debts; the anonymity of a telephone service run by a debt management companies; almost instant access by phone to debt Management Company. One more advantage of debt management plan is that you may have to agree not to apply for – or use – any additional credit while you’re participating in the plan.

When a debt management company is involved in solving your financial problem you have more chances that your creditors will accept reduced payments or will freeze interest.

In a debt management plan you deposit money each month with the credit counseling organization, which uses your deposits to pay your unsecured debts, like your credit card bills, student loans, and medical bills, according to a payment schedule the counselor develops with you and your creditors. It depends on your creditors to lower your interest rates or waive certain fees. You need to check with all your creditors to be sure they offer the concessions that a credit counseling organization describes to you.