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Reduce Your Credit Card Debt

Credit Pacific Service Union Do you worry about reducing your debt? If yes then why are so many people only paying the minimum payment on their credit cards, is it because they think if I keep paying the minimum payment every month it will pay itself off within months, well that is not the case we have to sort this problem out and fast.

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Credit First Service Union Credit card companies love the fact they we can only pay the minimum payment every month, why! Because they are raking it in while the interest rates are crippling us, so what started out as a small credit card bill could escalate into thousands, say your credit card statement arrives your balance is £2000 the minimum payment is £40 which is 2% of your balance, if you keep paying just the minimum payment it’s the interest that most of your £40 is going to and not much to your bill.

Credit card and even more so Store card interest are set at exorbitant rates for one reason alone, companies make their money from the consumer’s inability to settle their card balances. Credit card debt is unsecured, whereas other debt like your mortgage is secured (your home acts as security against your debt). With credit card debt, there is no backing security, which means that credit card debt is high risk for banks and hence the high interest rates

Card Credit Mobile Service The minimum re-payments have dropped the credit card and bank companies originally charged 10% but they found that customers where paying their debt back a lot quicker with the 10%, so the way for them to get more interest out of us was for them to reduce the percentage of the minimum payment, making us think that they where helping us but in fact they where just getting more money from us by adding on more interest, as it will take longer for us to pay of the credit card bills.
So what to do if you find yourself in this situation stop using your credit card better still cut it up (in case you get tempted), sit down and workout how much more you can pay than the minimum payment they’re asking for, once you have worked out how much stick to it even when you see the minimum payments going down don’t be tempted to reduce your payment or your be back to square one.
If you have more than one credit card the best way to reduce your debt is once again stop using them, workout which one has the highest interest rate make the highest payment to that card, keep paying the minimum payment on your other cards and once the card with the highest interest rate is paid off, go to the next highest card and so on until all your cards are paid off.
You may have to tighten your belt in for a while but this will save you a lot of money in the long run, yes we all need credit cards and if you use them properly they are fine, but if you can not afford to pay them off at the end of the month then this is when you get yourself into all sorts of trouble.

Catalogue: Finance | Credit Cards
Title: Reduce Your Credit Card Debt By: Peter J Kenny

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