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Debt Management

Your family's financial health is dependant upon ensuring that your income exceeds your expenses. When you pay off debt, you reduce your interest costs. When you spend more than you earn, you acquire more debt. When those debts are on credit cards or in other high interest, short term debts, the costs of maintaining your debts can strangle your family. Debt management is critical to keeping your debts from financially suffocating your family.

If your debts are already strangling your family, you might need professional debt management help. If you fill out the form above you will be contacted by a debt consolidation organization that can help you develop a strategy for managing your debt.

Not all debt management programs are created equal. In evaluating different debt management services, it is important to verify that you are working with an accredited, non profit debt consolidation organization. Many creditors will not work with organizations lacking their 501(c)3 status. Working with a debt management firm without this status is likely to simply cost you money, as you will pay larger fees (as a for profit firm needs to make a profit, not do a public service) and not receive the reduced payments that a non profit organization can provide. While these companies may help you learn how to manage your debt, a debt management program should involve interest rate reductions that will only be available through non profit organizations.

Determining a strategy for credit card debt management is vital to your financial success. A system of personal debt management can help with minor debt problems. Simply watching spending and paying off your credit card debt over a few months may work if your debt management skills are good and debt levels are reasonable. If you are unable to manage your debt on your own, there are many debt management companies that provide debt management credit counseling programs and services. When you fill out the form on the left, you will be contacted by a non profit organization that can help you with your debt management problems.