An IVA, or individual Voluntary Arrangement, is a debt help solution for people with serious debt problems who living in the United Kingdom.
It forms a new agreement between the applicant and his unsecured creditors and is designed to consolidate the applicant’s unsecured debts into a single affordable monthly payment.
An IVA has a fixed time scale, which is agreed at the beginning of the arrangement (usually 5 years). During the IVA the applicant agrees to pay back what he can afford, but once the fixed term is completed, the applicant is considered to be legally debt free. Even if he hasn’t actually repaid all his debts the creditors are legally obliged to write off any outstanding balances.
Some other terms and conditions of the IVA are also beneficial to the applicant, such as a freeze on all interest charges and a stop on late payment fees once the IVA has been ratified. Cre Read more…
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