What representatives do is that they offer a lump -
sum payment to creditors for less than what you owe and then they intentionally make you delinquent on your debts in order to have leverage.
Debt settlement means offering a lump -
sum payment to a creditor for less than what is owed.
Not exact matches
Debt - settlement companies tend
to hold monthly
payments from you until they have a lump
sum they can offer a
creditor in exchange for a settlement.
If you are negotiating with the original
creditor to reduce the debt for a lump
sum payment, include the stipulation that they remove the negative credit status.
The exception
to the rule of offering a 60 month
payment term might be if you expect a lump
sum to be available
to offer your
creditors.
Once an agreement is achieved each month you pay the consolidation company one lump
sum; and the company disburse the
payment to your
creditors.
Debt settlement companies approach your
creditors and negotiate a plan in which each
creditor agrees
to cancel the loan for less than what you owe in exchange for a lump
sum payment.
You would make
payments into the account each month and a lump
sum payment is made
to the
creditor when the dedicated account balance is high enough
to pay the settlement amount.
Under a debt settlement arrangement, your
creditor agrees
to accept a lump
sum payment of less than your unpaid debt
to resolve fully your debt.
When a sufficient amount is available
to offer, as a one - time lump
sum payment to one of their
creditors, negotiations start.
If you miss a few credit - card
payments, your
creditors are often willing
to settle for a lump -
sum payment of a percentage of what you owe.
Similar
to an equity loan, you can receive the loan amount in a single lump
sum or in equal monthly installments paid
to you from the
creditor, which is why it is a reverse mortgage — you receive
payments rather than make them each month.
A voluntary method of debt restructuring in which a person makes a lump
sum payment to a financial counseling agency who distributes the funds
to creditors.
If your IVA fails then your debts will be reinstated less any
payments received by the
creditors (this is the
sum total of
payments you've made up
to that point less any fees your
creditors have agreed
to give your IP).
In return for having a lump -
sum payment, the
creditor agrees
to write off the rest of the debt.
Buydown: A lump
sum payment made
to the
creditor by the borrower or by a third party
to reduce the amount of some or all of the consumer's periodic
payments,
to repay the indebtedness.
You need
to be able
to raise a lump
sum to pay the
creditors or be able
to make regular
payments from your income
to your
creditors.
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.
For instance, if you owe $ 15,000 in credit card debt but are able
to make a lump
sum payment of $ 9,000 from savings or a windfall you receive, your
creditor may agree
to forgive the remaining debt and you would not have
to pay it.
Once the fees were paid, the company would accumulate the
payments until there was sufficient money available
to offer a lump
sum settlement
payment to one of the client's
creditors.
Once the account has grown
to a certain amount whereby a lump
sum payment can be made, the debt settlement company contacts your
creditors and begins negotiating a settlement with them.
While most
creditors want a lump -
sum payment over installments it is possible in some cases
to establish an installment agreement.
A debt settlement for less than the full balance owed gives a debt collection company the opportunity
to collect a lump
sum payment in one big
payment, and
creditors often don't turn down a lump
sum chunk of cash!
If you have a lump
sum that is less than the full balance you owe on your debts, you can ask your
creditors to accept the
payment and write off the rest of the debts.
An attorney negotiates with the
creditor to reduce what you owe, and you make a lump -
sum payment of the remaining debt.
The representative from settlement company negotiates with your
creditors and / or collection agencies
to reduce the payoff amount so that you can get rid of debts through a lump
sum payment on each account.
(b) With respect
to the deferral of one or more wholly unpaid scheduled
payments in a consumer credit transaction, in which the finance charge was determined by the precomputed method, the
creditor may collect, by agreement with the debtor either before or after default, an additional charge for each full month that any wholly unpaid scheduled
payments are outstanding after the due date of each scheduled
payment equal
to that proportion of the finance charge which the amount of the deferred monthly scheduled
payment bears
to the
sum of all monthly balances originally scheduled.
One reduced lump
sum payment will then be released from your account — and paid directly
to the
creditor — resulting in a «zero dollar balance» — reported as «settled in full» and sometimes removed from your credit report entirely.
Finally, the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) is the third option whereby
creditors are approached with an offer of
payment of
sums owed over time
to settle due bills.
In an insolvency context, administrators may be better off agreeing that contractors and consultants should continue
to work on the project
to completion in return for
payment of a proportion of outstanding
sums (with the project team then taking their place in line as unsecured
creditors for the balance).