hi can you tell me if you have to miss payments to

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mitsu8

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Post by mitsu8 » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:29 am
hi can you tell me if you have to miss payments to credit card companies before you can apply for iva thanks
 
 

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Post by size5 » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:40 am
Hi mitsu8.

It is not a requirement that payments are missed before you start the ball rolling to look at an IVA or other debt solution. I would estimate that upwards of 75% to 80% of the clients I speak to have never missed payments, indeed it is to your credit, pardon the pun, that you seem to have realised that there is a problem before it gets any worse.

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Post by MelanieGiles » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:19 pm
You have to be insolvent - which means that you cannot afford to pay the contractual payments on your debts as they fall due without relying on further sources of credit to do so.
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Post by Jan01 » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:20 pm
Hi mitsu8

I have had an IVA for over 3 years now and I hadn't missed a payment but I was unable to continue as I was using credit cards to pay bills and buy groceries and the credit cards were getting maxed out.
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Post by michael.t47 » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:33 pm
never missed a payment till i started the process, hopefully sorted soon too
 
 

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Post by aguise » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:18 pm
Same here we hadnt missed any payments either.

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Post by Viki.W » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:49 pm
Hey Mitsu8, I hadn't missed a payment either but I was only meeting my minumum payments on credit cards and my loan repayments by drawing money out on different credit cards and using that.[:(]
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