Many people find they are able to start to save money
while in a consumer proposal because their monthly payments are significantly less than they where on their debts before they filed.
If your mortgage payments are current and on - time, you should be able to renew your mortgage with your existing lender while you are
in a consumer proposal filing.
In addition, interest is
frozen in a consumer proposal so your payments do not increase beyond what you agreed to pay at the beginning of the proposal.
As you can see, determining how much the monthly payment is going to be
in a consumer proposal takes some experience in knowing what will work and what won't.
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Therefore debts such as credit cards, loans, lines of credits, overdrafts, income taxes, and payday loans are included
in the consumer proposal as unsecured debts.
The Bankruptcy & Insolvency Act sets the debt
limit in a consumer proposal to $ 250,000 in debt, excluding the mortgage on your principal residence.
While your payments will be less than they are today, they will be more than
in a consumer proposal because in a debt management program you are required to back 100 % of your debts.
→ In your consumer proposal, you agree to pay $ 1 for every $ 10 owed, so your mortgage lender ends up getting approximately $ 25,000 from you, meaning the lender now has a loss of $ 225,000.
In most cases an individual would only file a Division I proposal if their total debts, excluding the mortgage on their principal residence, are more than the $ 250,000 limit
allowed in a consumer proposal.
If they expect to get 10 cents on the dollar in a bankruptcy but you only offer them five cents on the
dollar in a consumer proposal, there's not much chance that they'd go for that deal.
Ted also explains that there is usually no court
hearing in a consumer proposal and it is rare in a bankruptcy, unless you fail to complete your duties.
Doug Hoyes: And I think it's the creditor component that's the big difference»cause in a consumer proposal the creditors have their say upfront.
So, the whole concept
then in a consumer proposal is, you take what I would have had to pay in bankruptcy, offer a little bit more because we need the creditors to say yes to it; but I can stretch those payments out over a longer period of time then what would happen in a bankruptcy.
To reiterate: A former student's student loans, if less than seven years old, will only be discharged
in a consumer proposal if the student lender specifically votes in favour of the proposal.
What kind of debt you owe to them, how much you owe them, how much you've paid to them in the past, what your current budget looks like, what assets you have, what your employment income is, and what kind of employment income you have can impact what may happen under a bankruptcy to how much you would need to
offer in a consumer proposal.
In contrast, in most
cases in a consumer proposal an individual can eliminate one dollar of debt for about 30 cents on the dollar — three to four times less expensive than a debt consolidation loan!