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I currently have around $40k of unsecured credit card debt. I am trying to do the right thing and pay them off.
I just wanted to know in the event I cannot pay it off at all, what would happen besides my credit score being hurt? I know in the event I cannot pay off secured debt like a mortgage they can take my house away, however any consequences for unsecured credit card debt besides my credit getting trashed?
thank you in advance for your time.
There are several consequences:
(1) Your wages can be garnished. In 45 of 50 states allow your wages to be garnished if a creditor succeeds in getting a civil judgement (the states that do NOT allow garnishments are Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania). The amount can be taken from your paycheck is up to 25 percent (again, depending on the state you live in).
(2) Your state income tax returns can be seized. 41 of 50 states have a state income tax (the states that do NOT have a state income tax are Alaska, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, South Dakota, Washington, Nevada and Wyoming). If a creditor succeeds in getting a civil judgement against you, they can send a notification to seize your state income tax return to the applicable tax collection office of your state (usually the state Treasury).
(3) Monies on deposit in a bank account can be seized. If a creditor succeeds in getting a civil judgement against you, the creditor can go to the court and request what is called a "non-periodic writ of garnishment". The creditor can then elect to send the writ to all of your creditors. This is an ORDER (not a request) to hold and then eventually turn over the funds to them. There are some exceptions to this rule. For example, there are funds that cannot be seized through a writ of garnishment – such as retirement funds (such as an IRA), protected federal benefits (Social Security, SSI, wages provided by the federal government, pensions provided by the federal government), funds in which another creditor has first right to the funds (such as funds that are being held by a creditor for a secured credit card).
(4) Liens can be forceplaced. For example, if you own a piece of property (such as a home, or vacant land), a creditor in some cases can forceplace a lien on that property for the amount that you owe. Then in some cases, the creditor can then foreclose on your property. This is risky for the creditor though – because if there is a 1st lien on the property, that creditor will have to pay off the 1st lienholder in order to take the property. You can see why that is risky in today’s age – because a lot of people own more than what their property is worth.
(5) Your financial institution will simply make your life a living hell until you either pay it or file for bankruptcy.
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I am currently struggling to pay off my credit card debt (Approximately $4000). My interests rate ranges from high to low on 5 different cards. I have been only making the minimum payments recently and my credit score is in the mid 700s. Would I be better off keeping all of my debt separate and trying to pay more than the minimum every month or should i combine all my debt into one loan that i can make 100+ payments a month with low interest?
Thank you for the responses!
So long as you continue to make minimum payments on time for all your credit cards your credit rating will remain strong. In fact, credit card companies love it when you make only the minimum payment because they’ll make more money from you with the interest you’ll be paying. You have a good credit rating already so don’t worry about that.
Really, your next step should be to do up a simple budget for yourself and ask yourself if there isn’t something you can do without to free up some more money to pay down the debt faster. If you can’t account for where your entire paycheck goes you most likely have some unnecessary spending going on. Even if you can find just an extra $25 per week by packing your own lunch instead of eating out or something like that you’ll have an extra $100 to start paying down your debts faster. Finding some extra money like this to pay down your debts faster is going to be more important than what interest rate you have.
Not to say interest rate isn’t important though. Many people are now recommending against getting a consolidation loan as you’re thinking because so many people will clear off their credit cards with the money from the loan only to start spending on their cards and starting to rebuild that debt before they even pay off the consolidation loan. In a year or two they end up with a consolidation loan to repay on top of maxed out credit cards! If you are willing to take your credit cards out of your wallet and leave them at home to reduce the temptation to use them, a consolidation loan may work for you – just be extremely cautious to only spend on your cards something you can repay immediately and really you shouldn’t be using your credit cards at all until the loan is paid off.
Your other option which is easier than applying for a new loan is to try to get your credit card interest rates reduced or do a balance transfer to move some of the debt on the highest interest rate cards to ones with lower interest rates. Of course that only works if you have available limit. Call your credit card company and ask if there’s anyway they can reduce your credit card interest rate – some of them will reduce if you’ve been paying on time regularly but won’t change it if you don’t ask. Once you’ve tried this with each of your credit cards, try moving the balance from whatever card now has the highest interest rate to the one with the lowest or at least lower if you don’t have available credit on that one. While you’e on the phone with your card companies, make sure the balance transfer rate is the same as your purchase interest rates (it should be, but sometimes it isn’t always if you’re on a special introductory offer with your card).
BTW, good for you for identifying this problem now – most people have the mindset that so long as they can make their minimum payments there is no problem and will continue along until they are in way too deep. Good luck on getting ahead!
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World Law Debt Settlement focuses specifically on the process of helping our clients to become debt free. Our service provides you with a straightforward assessment of your legal rights and all your options allowed by law. When you use World Law Debt Settlement, you don’t have to make a trip into a law office; rather, you receive information according to your schedule, saving you precious time.
In 1998, partners from five of the world’s leading international law firms met to discuss the impact of the Internet on the availability of legal services. From that meeting grew several software prototypes for streamlining the most common legal issues, and compiling them into complex database and delivery system. Thus the first automated system to address over 4000 common legal issues was created at worldlawdirect.com
Today we’re helping to fill the need for efficient legal solutions. In addition to an expanding searchable knowledge database, our systems automatically re-route designated issues to our global law team when the need arises. We provide thorough up-to-date advice on commonly-faced legal issues in over 26 international jurisdictions including the United States. We put the expertise and resources of a global law firm to work for you.
Our founding shareholder board included leading international lawyers from the U.S. and abroad. The board worked closely with our premiere global team of Czech and Finnish computer programmers, British software analysts, and Internet systems specialists from the United States, Finland and Japan.
We’re delighted that you’re considering us here at World Law debt settlement to help solve your financial issues. We look forward to providing you with the highest quality solutions as part of our Attorney backed program.
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• Founded in 1998 by partners from leading international law firms.
• World Law Direct is the leading interactive provider of U.S. and international legal solutions; specializing in complex international law matters for U.S. Fortune 500 and international clients.
• First automated system in the world to address over 4000 common legal issues.
• Google ranks World Law Direct number one for “online legal advice” out of more than fifteen million searched sites. July 2004 through January 2009.
• Thousands of visitors assisted daily.
World Law Debt Settlement provides the following bundled services during the first 30 days of enrollment:
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• Insolvency Analysis
• Attorney letters of representation sent to creditors
• Pre-Bankruptcy screening and analysis
• Asset Information Collection and Preservation analysis
• Fair Debt collection practices act education course and collection of violation incidents
• Litigation preparedness program including evaluation of effective creditor collection options
• Access to World Law Groups library of legal forms and information.
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