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Credit First Service Union If you're an American, your minimum monthly credit card payment may soon be
doubling. If you're only paying the minimums now, you'll have to be careful to
adjust your budgeting to pay more.

Who's Raising Your Monthly Minimum Credit Card Payment?

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  Card Credit Mobile Service Whose idea was it to increase credit card minimum monthly payments? The
  Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, a bureau of the U.S. Treasury
  Department that has become more and more involved with reigning in the abuses
  of credit card companies. Yes, this credit card minimum payment increase was
  thought up by people trying to help you.



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  Card Credit Discover Service Who will be raising their monthly minimums? So far, some of the largest
  credit card issuers have agreed to the new standards. Bank of America has
  already been asking for the higher monthly minimum payment. MBNA, Citigroup
  (a.k.a. Citibank), Discover, and Chase (on some of its cards) will be breaking
  the news to their cardholders as Fall 2005 progresses.

How Much Will Credit Card Minimums Increase?

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Credit Public Service Union For many credit cards, such as MBNA and Bank of America, the new rates mean
that monthly minimum payments will double.

• Right now, the monthly minimum payment is only 2% of the balance on most
  of these cards. The new rate will be around 4% (the actual number may vary
  from card issuer to card issuer). This means that if you have the average
  American credit card balance of about $10,000, your minimum monthly payment
  will go from $200/month to $400/month.


• Of course, if you have any additional fees, whether a late fee or a cash
  advance fee or any of the other fees that the credit card guys cook up, you
  will have to pay that, too.

Why the Credit Card Minimum Payment Increase?

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Card Credit Processing Service You may be wondering why anyone would want to make you pay a higher minimum
monthly payment. The basic reason for making you pay more is: for your own
good.

Center Credit Service Union According to Mike Peterson, co-founder of American Credit Foundation, by
doubling the amount you pay per month toward credit card debt, you will cut down
on what you pay toward interest by much more. Look:

• Old monthly minimum payment of 2% of balance, $2,000 credit card debt at
  18% percent interest:


• Time to pay off debt in full: about 30 years.


• Interest paid: about $5,000-two and a half times what you initially
  borrowed!


• New monthly minimum payment of 4% of balance, same debt:


• Time to pay off debt in full: about 10 years. Time saved vs. old payment:
  20 years.


• Interest paid: about $1,100-slightly more than half what you originally
  borrowed. Amount saved vs. old payment: $3,900.

Tips for Paying Double Easily

Card Credit Service Wireless How do you pay off your new, higher credit card balance?

Stop Charging

Credit Security Service Union Yes, you will have to make major sacrifices to stop using your credit card.
But just look at all the money you'll have in ten or thirty years that you
wouldn't have if you had to pay all that credit card interest. If you have
trouble resisting the temptation to charge, here are some solutions that have
actually worked:

• Give your credit cards to a friend or family member to hold in safe
  keeping.


• Freeze the cards in a block of ice.


• Never carry more than one credit card with you.

Economize on the Small Things

Credit Report Service According to Michael Peterson of the American Credit Foundation, even tiny
savings really add up when it comes to debt. His favorite example is the Diet
Coke example:

• If you buy one Diet Coke a day at $1/day, that's $365/year.


• If you instead invested that one dollar a day at 10% interest (the average
  yearly return on major stocks over the last half century), you would be a
  millionaire within 56 years.


• Of course, with credit cards, this logic works in reverse: if you are
  lucky enough to be paying only 10% interest, fifty years of charging Diet Coke
  to your credit card will mean you've lost the same amount, not only in
  interest paid, but in the lost opportunity to save and invest.


• You don't have to put aside one dollar a day for fifty years to see a big
  difference. One dollar a day is $30/month, 15% of the average $200 increase in
  credit card minimum monthly payments.


• In order to get that entire $200 increase out of your daily budget, you
  would only have to save $200/30 or less than $7 a day. OK, maybe you aren't
  drinking seven Diet Cokes at one dollar each a day. But there are very few
  credit-card-holding Americans who can't cut $7 a day out of their
  spending.


• Put another way, $200/month works out to about $45/week, or the cost of a
  restaurant meal for a small family-another luxury you might want to skip until
  you're debt-free.

Bigger Savings

• Taxes. Most Americans could pay hundreds of dollars less tax each year if
  they just took all the deductions they were eligible for upfront, rather than
  waiting to get a refund in April. By April, you will have spent a big chunk of
  money on interest on debt that you wouldn't have spent if you'd had the money
  at hand.


• Call the credit card companies and ask if they can allow you to set up a
  payment plan, or at least provide a brief extension. Simply calling and
  letting them know you haven't forgotten about them can help keep you out of
  the worst trouble.


• Credit counseling. Credit counselors can talk with credit card issuers to
  help you get a repayment plan you can keep up with. They can also open your
  eyes to untapped sources of income you never knew you had, like kicking the
  $1,000,000 Diet Coke habit.

Blogspot Com Christian In short, don't panic. With only a little bit of planning, you can make the
higher minimum monthly payment work to your advantage, just as the policy's
authors intended.

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