When to consider debt consolidation

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If you have found that you have accumulated debt over the last few years you are not alone ? average personal debt in Britain is at a record high. You cannot change the past, but equally you cannot ignore it ? it is time to take stock and take action.

The first step to solving any financial problem is to have a firm grasp on the figures. Compile a list of all of your regular outgoings ? including payments towards debts ? and plug this information into one of the free debt planners available online.

Once you know the size of your debt, you will know which range of options to look at to tackle the problem. Basically, you need to establish whether you fall into one of two categories; or put more simply, answer the question: am I in debt crisis?

Debt crisis can perhaps most simply be defined as having insufficient regular incoming funds to meet your regular outgoing debt payments; if you cannot make the minimum payments on your various debts each month because you don''t have enough coming in, you are in debt crisis. If you are already in this position, it may seem like I am stating the obvious, but this distinction really is important, as in general the more radical the solution, the higher the long term cost of the fix.

You may well have already taken out fresh loans to cover old debt because your actual income (i.e. that which comes in from sources other than credit) is insufficient to meet your monthly debt payments. This pattern is called a debt spiral; it doesn''t sound good - and it isn''t.

Those in debt crisis can consider debt consolidation packages from companies like Baines And Ernst; this solution will take some of the headache away by effectively handing the management of your debt over to a professional agency that can represent you in dealings with creditors. Such companies can often negotiate a freeze on interest payments, and a reduction in certain penalty charges.

Bear in mind that these professionals do not work for free, however ? and usually take payment in the form of interest on your consolidation loan. Before taking a consolidation loan, make sure that you have researched other options first ? like balance transfers to credit cards for the interest free term, for example. If you have a poor credit rating this may not be possible, and it may be time to look at a consolidation loan.

Consolidation loans cover all of your (renegotiated) regular outgoings towards debt payment, leaving you with a just a single (consolidated) bill each month. This bill will be lower than the sum of your existing multiple debt payments combined, and this is possible because your debt is spread out over a longer period of time.

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Sunny Rigoni has recently been looking into debt consolidation and found Baines and Ernst which helped them massively.

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