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Does the possibility of not being able to pay your credit card debt concern you?
Are you already behind in your monthly credit card payments? Have your interest rates and monthly minimum payments been increased? Have you suffered late payment penalty fees?
Like others in that situation, have you started thinking about bankruptcy?
Unemployment, a devastating health problem, a family death, an unsuccessful business, or something else could have ruined your finances. Regardless of the cause of your credit card debt troubles, you can avoid the distress and negative thinking about bankruptcy or predatory creditors with some basic knowledge of unsecured credit card debt.
According to creditcards.com, in the last 12 months 18 million people (eight percent of American adults) missed a credit card payment. If your account is is unpaid, then it is one of millions. That is one of many truths consumers with late credit card debt need to learn about credit card debt collection, according to the Credit Card Debt Survival Guide. Another truth is a junk debt buyer could buy your charged off overdue account with tens or hundreds of thousands of other accounts in a package of junk debt for ten cents or less on the dollar.
The Federal Reserve requires the credit card companies to budget for bad debt. They assume those bad-debt consumers cannot pay for any number of reasons, and sell the credit card accounts after they write them off. Credit card debt collectors who end up with those credit card accounts view consumers in one of two ways, according to the Credit Card Debt Survival Guide; there are those who resist their collection efforts and those who do not resist them.
Your safety and security are in the numbers, in the millions of charged-off accounts and in the pennies per dollar each is actually worth. If you resist debt collection attempts (after you learn how to properly do so), it is simply not profitable for a debt collector to put more time into chasing you, when they can put that time in getting the easy returns from the many other people who put up no resistance. Credit card debt collectors can make a lot of money, if they only collect from 50 percent of the delinquent accounts assigned to them.
A command of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, your state's consumer protection laws and, if needed, your local court's rules of civil procedure will make it possible to turn away debt collectors.
Are you already behind in your monthly credit card payments? Have your interest rates and monthly minimum payments been increased? Have you suffered late payment penalty fees?
Like others in that situation, have you started thinking about bankruptcy?
Unemployment, a devastating health problem, a family death, an unsuccessful business, or something else could have ruined your finances. Regardless of the cause of your credit card debt troubles, you can avoid the distress and negative thinking about bankruptcy or predatory creditors with some basic knowledge of unsecured credit card debt.
According to creditcards.com, in the last 12 months 18 million people (eight percent of American adults) missed a credit card payment. If your account is is unpaid, then it is one of millions. That is one of many truths consumers with late credit card debt need to learn about credit card debt collection, according to the Credit Card Debt Survival Guide. Another truth is a junk debt buyer could buy your charged off overdue account with tens or hundreds of thousands of other accounts in a package of junk debt for ten cents or less on the dollar.
The Federal Reserve requires the credit card companies to budget for bad debt. They assume those bad-debt consumers cannot pay for any number of reasons, and sell the credit card accounts after they write them off. Credit card debt collectors who end up with those credit card accounts view consumers in one of two ways, according to the Credit Card Debt Survival Guide; there are those who resist their collection efforts and those who do not resist them.
Your safety and security are in the numbers, in the millions of charged-off accounts and in the pennies per dollar each is actually worth. If you resist debt collection attempts (after you learn how to properly do so), it is simply not profitable for a debt collector to put more time into chasing you, when they can put that time in getting the easy returns from the many other people who put up no resistance. Credit card debt collectors can make a lot of money, if they only collect from 50 percent of the delinquent accounts assigned to them.
A command of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, your state's consumer protection laws and, if needed, your local court's rules of civil procedure will make it possible to turn away debt collectors.
About the Author:
Matthew Highlander writes for the Credit Card Debt Survival Guide, a handbook with proven, legal non-payment and settlement strategies for consumers who cannot afford to pay their credit card debt.
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