A debt IVA (Individual
Voluntary Arrangement) is a debt management plan set up by government
to try to eliminate personal debt and deal generally with the issue
of personal insolvency. Our clients are licenced to give advice on the
understanding that Individual voluntary arrangements are never designed
to be one-size-fits-all cures to any debt problem, as each person's
situation is different.
The needs of one
person can be vastly different from the needs of another person or household.
Any debt IVA advice given must thus reflect the diversity of the situation
in which people live.
A normal Individual
Voluntary Arrangement will be set to run for five years (sometimes less)
and when this is complete all debts are discharged from a person's record.
During the time of the IVA no banks or debt collectors are permitted
to harass the debtor in any way. The IVA has the benefits of sequestration
while having none of the drawbacks.
An instrument such
as a debt IVA will write off the larger part of a person's debt at the
start of the programme (although beware of the claims made in some circles:
it is seldom more than 60 or 65 per cent of unsecured debt which can
be cancelled). All good IVA advice of this nature will ensure that you
get optimum results with the lowest monthly repayment options together
with the greatest percentage of debt written off.
So complete the
application form below for independent and impartial debt IVA advice
which is right for your own personal circumstances.
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Debt IVA
Most types of debt
IVA will usually be drafted to last for sixty months, although often
this will vary from case to case. At the end of this period the debt
is said to be paid off in full and the client exonerated. All records
of the various debts which have hitherto been registered against the
client's name and address must be deleted from the credit records as
a result.
The creditors are
not allowed to contact the applicant when the debt IVA is enacted. The
creditors are barred from chasing the debt in any way, and if they do
so they will be committing an offence and will be subject to penalties,
which may mean a fine or even loss of their licence to trade if they
are a debt purchasing firm. The applicant has this assurance in law
to prevent the tedious telephone calls and non-stop letters that these
companies use in order to intimidate their victims.
Governments generally
try to do their best to give some help to people who are suffering from
debt in one way or another. There are government schemes like The various
corporate and individual voluntary arrangements to expedite the conduct
of both personal and corporate debt relief and to try and palliate what
is, after all, a difficult time, and certainly a debt IVA is an integral
part of the solution. The emphasis tends to be toward safeguarding personal
possessions if at all possible and in safeguarding the property of petitioners
by legal means. This an arrangement applies to both private wealth as
much as the assets of businesses on which individual wealth depends.
A debt IVA will
be typically drafted by a specialist and qualified insolvency practitioner
and shall be made especially to match the specific requirements of the
client. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach to such
a process as each situation is different, while some circumstances are
exceptionally different. The selected insolvency practitioner will then
prepare the optimum proposal for the applicant's own individual situation
and then set up a plan of repayments usually for 60 months, though in
some circumstances this may be made to differ.
A number of disciplines
have evolved surrounding various aspects of insolvencies, and these
include the legal sector and more recent professions such as consultants.
Such experts have their part to play. Each one will have a different
area of knowledge and specialisation which you should make use of to
your advantage. Making use of a debt IVA will make recovery from insolvency
quicker and easier to bear.
Our economy is
an extremely complicated thing. Economists and specialists of all descriptions
try to comprehend how the whole thing works on an ongoing basis. It
is like a huge machine. Arguably economics impinges upon political needs
and these are generally regulated by the society that we have. Our culture
is aligned towards success so generally means risk. As long as we live
with this insidious aspect of risk we have also the ghastly spectre
of insolvency, both personal and corporate. Using a debt IVA is designed
to offset this risk to a large extent.
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