An Individual Voluntary Debt Arrangement is the optimum
way to release yourself from debt entirely and for all time. Its purpose
was to serve as a far less draconian alternative to bankruptcy, as indeed
it carries none of bankruptcy’s stigma.
An Insolvency Practitioner
will draft an Individual Voluntary Debt Arrangement after having looked into your circumstances, and a
list of your income and expenditure will be made, with consideration
given to your necessities and your usual household bills and expenses.
It is not unusual, at this stage, for between 60 and 70 percent of your
entire debt to be written off. Only after that will you start making
much reduced monthly repayments into a fund in order to clear the remainder
of the debt.
To be eligible for
an Individual Voluntary Debt Arrangement you usually need to be in employment and your income needs to
exceed your expenditure. By how much your income needs to exceed your
expenditure depends on the IVA source, which is why our whole-of-market
approach is best for everyone: we simply match you up with the best
IVA for your own situation.
Your Individual Voluntary Debt Arrangement will be
a binding legal instrument and your creditors will be bound by it. From
the first day it takes effect your creditors (or their agents) will
not be allowed to contact you in any way. If they do they will face
the punishment of the law. If the account or accounts have been placed
with collection agencies, or if the delinquent accounts have been bought
by debt purchasing companies, then they will have to stop their nefarious
practices and leave you alone for the entire duration of the IVA’s
term.
At the end of the
agreed term of the IVA you will be discharged and there will be no mark
against your credit rating whatsoever.
To apply for an
Independent Voluntary Arrangement, without obligation, or to see if
you are eligible for one, fill in the quick application form below.