How does Debt Counselling assist the Consumer?
- Budgeting advise
- Restructuring their payments
- Negotiating with credit providers on their behalf
- Monitoring their payments
- Providing after care facilities
Features of Debt Counselling
- Reduce all credit agreements (accounts ) by up to 50%
- Reduce interest rates on all credit agreements
- Prevent repossession of all assets
- Legal process
- Uncapped Debt Value
- No negative impact on credit and imperial score
- One fixed monthly repayment distributed by the PDA (Payment Distribution Agency)
Benefits of Debt Counselling
- Debt Counsellors will formally review the clients finances & develop a suitable monthly budget
- Negotiate with credit providers on their behalf.
- Enable clients to make monthly debt repayments
- Relieves clients from creditors hassling for money
- Maps out the path for reducing bad debt and becoming debt free
- Decreases summons and judgments against clients
- Debt Counsellors will educate clients about their financial rights and how to control their finance.
- When a consumer falls behind on their repayments, they become not only liable for the principal debt, but also for the interest and collection fees.
- In Duplum – limits the interest that a creditor may charge on an account in arrears. The rule holds that interests stops accumulating once the unpaid interest equals the outstanding amount.