Hi Elisha
Most insolvency practitioners are pretty busy people at the moment, and your IP will most likely have written to creditors, but the problem is this correspondence is often disregarded, as creditors would rather continue to telephone you in an attempt to extract payment from you.
Some IVAs can be put together in 24 hours, and some can take much longer than 6-8 weeks. They are called "Individual Voluntary Arrangements" for a specific reason, in that your circumstances are individual and must therefore be individually researched and presented.
Why not ask your IP firm to give you the name of your case manager, so that you can ring or e-mail them directly for regular progress reports.
Regards, Melanie Giles, Insolvency Practitioner for over 20 years.
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