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What is Credit Counseling? |
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The credit counseling agencies are designed to be non-profit, which means majority of your payments must be earmarked for debt payment. However, credit counseling agencies can legally collect a small fee for administrative costs, but most of the counseling services' fees are paid by the lenders themselves, which send back to the services a portion of the payments received. How Does Credit Counseling Work? Typically, counseling services help you to negotiate lower payments with credit-card companies. Before a credit counselor proposes to you a repayment plan, he normally will do some assessment on your current financial status and get detail information on your debt condition. Your counselor can then map out different ways to debt consolidation, potentially pushing all or most of your outstanding balances onto one or two low interest cards or even taking out a debt consolidation loan to get rid of some or all of your credit card debt. When Do You Need Credit Counseling? If you are able to pay your bills and are current on all your accounts, you almost certainly don't need credit counseling. If your interest rates are too high, you usually can negotiate a lower rate with your credit-card companies just by asking or threatening to move your account elsewhere. You will need credit counseling if:
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