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There are many plans out there that will help you get your debt
paid off. The most common these days is the debt consolidation
plan, but there are others that can either work together, or
separately depending on your debt. Quite often you will see a
debt management or debt settlement being worked in conjunction
with a debt consolidation but again, that depends on the amount
o debt and your financial situation.
A debt consolidation will take all of your current debt and put
it into one loan. It does not remove any of the debt that you
owe, it simply consolidates it into one payment. This new debt
consolidation loan will usually have a lower interest rate than
what you are paying on your credit cards and a set pay back
plan. A debt settlement involves your creditors releasing or
forgiving some of the debt that you owe them so that you are
actually paying them back less than what you owe. Sometimes this
amount can still be too much to pay back all at once, and if you
have several creditors that you are working with, a debt
consolidation will be used to pay them all back, and then you
would pay down the debt consolidation loan itself over time.
Debt management is usually the process of working with a company
to come to an agreement with your creditors. You could end up
using debt settlement as well as debt consolidation, and a
budget is usually drawn up so that you know how much you are
paying out each month and how you might get debt free.