| More
people have financial worries than at any other time in their
lives.
This must
come as no surprise, as we have just come out of the most
dreadful credit crisis for seventy years.
Many suffered
pay cuts due to working less hours each week.
The less
fortunate even lost their jobs, and having been made redundant
in the middle of a credit crunch, found it almost impossible
to obtain another job, and as a result of all this many households
were earning less than in the past.
The extreme
harshness of the UK Budget yesterday, which is the toughest
Budget ever, bears testament to the fact that the economy
is far from back to normal.
The hike
in VAT being raised to 20%, shows just how seriously bad the
state of the finances of the entire nation is.
It will
take possibly years for normality to resume.
There
is not going to be a quick fix for either the world economy
or individual finances of the public.The recovery is a long
way off.
It is
the individual's own job to rearrange and organize his own
finances.
During
the recession, people took out credit cards as if they were
going out of fashion, to often buy, not luxuries as before,
but simply to buy items needed for human survival, such as
food, clothing,, heat and light
Now these
cards have high balances, and are proving difficult to pay.
There
is an excellent way of tidying up finances and saving money,
and granting yourself debt relief. The name for this process
is debt consolidation.
The name,
debt consolidation
, is self explanatory, and is the rolling of number of different
pieces of debt in credit cards, etc. into the one entity.
It is
theoretically possible, for both homeowners and non homeowners,
to obtain consolidation loans from their own bank, for example,
but these are almost impossible to obtain at present.
Unsecured
loans of more than 15,000 are no longer in the market, and
this will often not be enough to clear all the debts anyway.
The best
choice for homeowners is a secured loan or a remortgage .
Both a
secured loan and a remortgage are forms of home loans, secured
on the equity of a property.
With remortgages
available from only 1.84%, and secured loans from 9%, debt
relief can certainly be achieved, when these low cost homeownwer
loans are used to clear off the other high interest debts.
|