The amount you will be required to
pay in a consumer proposal is based on many factors.
How much do you get
paid in a consumer proposal?
To determine how much to
pay in a consumer proposal your trustee looks at three basic things:
Not exact matches
Under the
proposal,
consumers would
pay a 5 - cent deposit on every disposable beverage container (glass, aluminum, or plastic), which they would collect when they returned the can or bottle to a «reclamation center»
in the community.
You're still
paying that whether you're bankrupt or not, whether you're
in a
consumer proposal or not, it's not going to affect it.
In more general terms, a
consumer proposal is an offer you make to your creditors to
pay a portion of your debts.
In our own practice, the average payment term offered is 47 months and the average length of time to actually
pay off a
consumer proposal is 42 months.
If you've failed to
pay bills, have too much debt
in general or have gone through bankruptcy or
consumer proposal, then you will have a low credit score.
We helped her make a deal with her creditors through a
consumer proposal to
pay that amount for 31 weeks
in full and final settlement of everything she owed.
In this type of
proposal it is important not to assume your income will increase or hope that you will get a better
paying job, as you do not want to default on your
consumer proposal as that creates other ramifications.
Consumer proposals involve contacting your creditors and saying,
in effect, that as much as I would like to
pay back my debts, I can't afford to do so, so will you accept partial payment and call it quits?
Or stay
in the house, go through a
consumer proposal,
pay off $ 50,000 to his creditors now and
pay the rest off over time.»
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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 the majority of cases, a
Consumer Proposal will require you to
pay less than the full amount you owe and still get discharged from your debts.
In a
Consumer Proposal, you will make one reasonable monthly payment and will
pay only a portion of your overall debt.
You should also make it a habit to
pay all your bills
in full and on - time to build a solid credit history during and after your
consumer proposal filing.
And
in a lot of cases well if they'd come
in and, you know, for example filed a
consumer proposal and dealt all their debt, their income is sufficient to
pay their living expenses.
Many worry that they will not be able to
pay themselves first while also
paying off their debt; but what they haven't factored
in, is that once you file a
consumer proposal or bankruptcy, you are making a one time payment each month, for example $ 300, that is much lower than trying to
pay the minimum payments at $ 700 a month.
In a
consumer proposal you make an offer to
pay your creditors a portion of your debts.
Doug Hoyes: Because I mean as you said with respect to your credit rating well, when you do a
consumer proposal your credit rating will not be as good as if you
paid all your debts
in full and had a million dollars
in the bank.
In a
consumer proposal your income does not affect the amount that you
pay or the length of your
proposal.
Well okay, if I'm bring
in $ 2,300, $ 2,400, $ 2,500 a month, rather than
paying $ 1,000 on a debt consolidation loan to
pay $ 200 or $ 300 a month on a
consumer proposal, that sounds like it makes sense.
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.
Filing a bankruptcy or
consumer proposal is asking for legal permission to be released from your debts when there is no reasonable expectation of being able to
pay them
in full.
For many, the answer is a
consumer proposal,
in which a Licensed Insolvency Trustee collectively negotiates with creditors the amount the client will
pay off.
In a
consumer proposal you are
paying a set amount, so if you
pay it faster, the
proposal ends sooner.
Only licensed insolvency trustees (the new designation for bankruptcy trustees
in Canada) may administer a
consumer proposal, so before you sign any agreements to
pay, make certain you are dealing directly with a licensed trustee and not a debt consultant that will pocket your money and refer you elsewhere.
If you can not
pay more than the minimum, or if your debts have gone to collections and you will not be able to
pay them
in full within the next five years, you may want to consider a
consumer proposal.
Also, keep
in mind that you will have to earn the before tax income to
pay off the CRA debt, not simply the amount of the debt itself, which is another reason you may want to settle with CRA through a debt repayment option such as a
consumer proposal or bankruptcy.
Debts
in collection put your rating at the bottom and they remain on the credit bureau for the time it takes to
pay the debt
in full plus three years, so a
consumer proposal is an improvement on that.
A
consumer proposal is open and can be
paid in full at any time.
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.
A
Consumer proposal is a way to negotiate a debt settlement with your creditors by offering to
pay back a reduced amount of your debt, either
in a lump - sum payment or
in monthly installments over an extended period of time.
In a typical case the credit cards and other debts you owe money to will accept a consumer proposal where you pay $ 300 per month for 5 years, or $ 18,000 in tota
In a typical case the credit cards and other debts you owe money to will accept a
consumer proposal where you
pay $ 300 per month for 5 years, or $ 18,000
in tota
in total.
A
consumer proposal in Ontario is registered on your credit report and removed 3 years from the date that it is
paid in full.
The big difference between a bankruptcy and
consumer proposal is that
in a bankruptcy you are saying you can't afford to
pay back any of your debt.
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 proposa
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 proposa
in a
consumer proposal so your payments do not increase beyond what you agreed to
pay at the beginning of the
proposal.
Now having said that, if you do actually have an appreciable amount of equity
in your property then we're going to suggest that we consider filing a
consumer proposal; making an offer to the creditors to
pay back part of what you owe but protecting the property as part of the deal.
What is your family situation — if you are married and have children this has an impact on the financial calculations we would make
in determining how much you would have to
pay in a bankruptcy or
consumer proposal?
If you are delaying filing bankruptcy or making a
consumer proposal, and your lender increases your interest rate because they view you as a bankruptcy risk anyway, putting off filing for several months will only increase the amount of interest you
pay in the meantime.
Doug Hoyes: But
in a debt management plan you are
paying 100 cents on the dollar,
in a
consumer proposal as you said, the average payment is somewhere around a third.
What the 407 was doing
in practice was denying license plate renewals to any individual with 407 debt until that debt was
paid off
in full, regardless if they filed for bankruptcy or a
consumer proposal.
If you have more debts than you can
pay and you want help to eliminate those debts, there are two legal procedures that will work: a
consumer proposal or personal bankruptcy
in Canada.
By filing a
consumer proposal, your monthly payment may be lower, and you know exactly what you are required to
pay, which accounts
in part for the increase
in consumer proposal filings
in Canada.
Consumer proposal administrators are
paid by tariff, with fees set
in accordance with bankruptcy legislation.
A
consumer proposal is an offer made to your creditors,
in which you request either a reduction
in the balance you have to
pay, an extension of the repayment period, or both.
Here are other top
consumer proposal advantages, based on my experience
in Mississauga, Ontario: You
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Ted: Now what people have to keep
in mind is, a
Consumer Proposal is not a solution for the guy that doesn't have any trouble
paying his debts.
So
in the future it will be more difficult to finance a car, buy a house than if you hadn't filed a
Consumer Proposal than if you'd been able to
pay your debts
in full.
So if you think it's either
pay it all
in full or, I can
pay 30 percent, it's a debt settlement over time and I'm not going to get sued, well, if those are your only two options and you can't afford to
pay it
in full, well, that sounds good but once you research all of your other options and essentially
consumer proposal for most of the folks that I've seen, this is what they wanted all along, this is what they really needed and they just weren't aware of it.