Your debt may seem high, but in reality it's small, compared to the 712 - billion
dollars of credit card debt owed by American consumers ($ 15,355 average credit card debt per household), along with over 1.2 - trillion dollars of student loan debt ($ 47,712 average student loan debt per household), as of 2015.
Not exact matches
Moving high - interest
credit card debt to a
card with a lower rate — or, better yet, a 0 % interest period — can save you hundreds
of dollars while making it easier to pay down what you
owe.
When you fall behind on
credit card payments, after approximately 4 - 6 months the bank will write off the
debt, and sell it to a collection agency for as low as four cents on the
dollar, and this allows you to now work direct with the collection agency and negotiate a settlement based on your hardship, where you can reduce the balance to a fraction
of what is
owed.