Effect on Credit Rating

If you avail an IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement) to handle your debt troubles, your credit rating will undeniably be adversely affected. This is a major apprehension felt by debtors who decide to enter into an IVA programme. Your credit rating will be much poorer if your mounting debts spiral out of control and your last recourse is to go bankrupt. We at ‘Chance for Loans’ are an online debt consolidation and IVA arranger helping customers in choosing better alternatives according to their financial conditions. Here we are trying to show the Effect on Credit Rating post IVA.
 

• If you have to choose between an IVA and bankruptcy, opt for IVA even though this will have a negative influence on your credit rating. However, do this only if you can stay aloof a tight budget and be sure to make the repayments at regular intervals of time.
• The dark spot of bankruptcy disgraces your records for a long period of time. However, with an IVA, your credit rating will be repaired and shall be back to normal once you have successfully completed your series of repayments. Within 12 months, the status of IVA is itself removed from your credit report.
• In short, an IVA will affect your credit rating for a much smaller time period but fortunately, would not last forever.

How is credit rating repaired?

• In fact, availing an IVA can help the debtor’s credit rating in the long term. If you are unable to pay off your debts over a longer time period, it is quite apparent that some or even all your creditors will finally take some legal action against you in court by applying for a CCJ or County Court Judgement.
• Generally, a CCJ against you will remain on your credit records for roughly 6 years. A CCJ is highly destructive to your credit rating and can cause enduring damage.
• However, if you enter into an IVA early, your creditors are less likely to apply for a CCJ as there will be little point in doing so.
• Creditors generally prefer not to go to the lengths of applying for CCJ's as they are reluctant to incur the costs associated with the application.
• The majority of debtors who take on an Individual Voluntary Arrangement usually complete them successfully in a period of about 5 years.
• One of the main conditions of availing an IVA is that you are not allowed to apply for any type of unsecured loan until you have completed the series of repayments set out in your IVA.
• While this is happening, your personal credit score is irrelevant as credit ratings are only checked when there is a loan application being made.
• As soon as you have successfully completed your IVA, you will be given a Certificate of Completion by the insolvency practitioner who is managing your debts.

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