Friday, October 29, 2010

Is recession a reason to stop paying your bills?

Like it or not, if you have a credit card and have spent on it, you are a debtor. You have to repay what you have spent and not paying attracts debt collectors calling you. The recession in the recent years or the sky rocketing cost of living are not reasons for not repaying debts. Typically, debt problems have not fallen from the far and wide sky but are a making of your own bad spending habits, unemployment and credit card theft.

Whatever your reasons for ending up in credit card debt are, you are entitled to a fair collection of debt under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). You may consider the following options to eliminate debt.

The first option to consider when you are unable to pay debts is to talk to your creditors directly. A direct conversation is always appreciated. Seek debt reduction rates and negotiate to as low a rate as possible that would lead to lowered outstanding balance to be paid over a period of time. During such negotiations you may get a chance to set your own debt reduction rates.

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