Annaline van der Poel explains what debt review is and how it can help overindebted consumers pay off their debt in an affordable manner. Benefits such as legal protection and budget restructuring are all explained in this insightful interview.

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Arbitration is different from mediation, which is voluntary. Instead, arbitration is an alternative type of court, where the arbitrator renders a judgment. The debt collectors (and big money in general) like it because it makes it easier for them to get a judgment against you. It typically has easier rules of evidence and reduced discovery, and appeals are nearly impossible. So we generally suggest against it – to put it mildly. But if you happen to have everything you need, we still suggest against it because of its lack of “transparency” and the fact that arbitrators are often loyal to the debt collection side.

How long does it take to apply for debt counselling? More here: http://www.debtcounsellinghelp.co.za/FAQ.php

The application process is super easy and we protect you immediately from creditors.
We have a very experience back office team that will process your application as soon as we receive your form 16 plus supporting documents.

We will notify all your creditors with a 17.1 Notice. This takes 2-5 days, normally shorter. As soon as all your creditors have been informed, you are protected from creditors.

Please go to the www.debtcounsellinghelp.co.za for more info on the debt counselling process.

How to apply for debt counselling: http://youtu.be/vFTs9xJOr-s
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If you overlook some risks and forget about long-term consequences, spending money as you please seems a quite tempting idea. For instance, instead of calculating what sort of mortgage payment you can actually afford, why not try to purchase your $600,000 dream home? You only live once, right? And, since you already crossed that line, why not taking a sizable loan to buy yourself a brand new $60,000 SUV instead of driving around your dumpy old car for another year or two? Wouldn’t that be awesome? While you are at it, why don’t you go shopping and max out all your credit cards to get everything you always wanted? Don’t think about the credit card interest, just go there and do it. Well, if all of this sounds good but probably too crazy for you, it’s because it is. However, many Americans haven’t been thinking much about long-term consequences these days.
With a federal government that spends money as it grows on trees when it comes to money management, our society is lacking role models. Our government debt is currently sitting at 28 trillion dollars and yet all our leaders think about is spending more and more money. Americans have now officially more debt than ever before. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a major increase in credit card spending and home purchases caused U.S. household debt to jump by $313 billion, or 2.1%, in the last quarter, marking the largest increase in consumer debt in seven and a half years.
Economists are worried we might be repeating the same disruptive spending behavior we did in the past. After being showered with trillions upon trillions of dollars by the federal government, you would imagine that Americans would be in pretty good financial shape these days, right? Sadly… that’s not the case. Most of that money only contributed to making the gap between the wealthy and, well… “the rest of us,” even larger. According to a new study from Oxford Economics, Americans added nearly $4 trillion to their savings during the health crisis recession, but most of the gains went to the wealthy. The study estimates that consumer spending in the coming months and years will be strongest at the top and significantly lower at the bottom 99%.
Rising inflation will play a major role in the deterioration of our finances and the collapse of our spending. Americans are already seeing living expenses go up while the price of consumer goods keeps on hitting new record highs. Finding an affordable home to buy has become simply impossible, and with rent prices soaring, more than 12 million families are still in danger of being evicted. The federal moratorium has ended, but after major backlash, the new administration decided to come to the rescue and issued a targeted moratorium in areas hardest hit by the virus outbreak. The move replaced the CDC nationwide evictions freeze that expired last Saturday, but major legal questions still remain.
Despite affirming to have asked for legal advice from constitutional scholars to determine whether the CDC had the legal authority to issue a new evictions action, the President passed the new action without Congress authorization. He said that even if the courts invalidate this new moratorium, it will buy some time for his administration to get aid more money for rental relief. However, the federal government allocated $46 billion in rental assistance just a couple of months ago. The question remaining is: where did all that money go? It doesn’t add up.
Even more worrying is the fact that the President of the United States ignored the U.S. Constitution to get more money using the eviction crisis as justification. It is safe to say that if he actually gets more money, most part of these dollars won’t end up assisting those who need it the most. Without a question, the eviction crisis should be averted. Is the President choosing the right approach to prevent it? Absolutely no. Sadly, his approach is typical of how most Americans deal with things. Most of us tend to act impulsively, without considering the impacts our actions might have in the long run. We throw money up in the air expecting it to fix all of our problems as if tomorrow will never come, but “tomorrow” always arrives eventually, and when it finally does, we will have to face a painful reckoning. Unfortunately, our “tomorrow” looks darker and more chaotic most people would dare to imagine.

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What is mandatory credit counselling?
Credit counselling refers to the two counselling sessions, a person filing bankruptcy or a consumer proposal, is required to take before he can be discharged from bankruptcy.
Usually the counselling sessions are held at the trustee office.
The purpose of the counselling sessions is to provide financial information skills to the debtor in the hope that these skills will better prepare the debtor to make sound financial decisions.
The Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy has provided the following standards for trustees to follow:
First Counselling Stage — Consumer and Credit Education
The qualified counsellor shall present information to provide the bankrupt and/or relative, or a consumer debtor, with consumer advice in the areas of:
(i) money management;
(ii) spending and shopping habits;
(iii) warning signs of financial difficulties; and
(iv) obtaining and using credit.
Second Counselling Stage — Identification of Roadblocks to Solvency and Rehabilitation
The second stage is to determine the budgetary and/or non-budgetary causes of insolvency or bankruptcy and requires that the qualified counsellor:
(a) follow up on the application by the debtor of the principles presented in the first stage to assist the debtor, to better understand his or her strengths and weaknesses with regard to money management and budgeting skills;
(b) assist, where appropriate, the bankrupt and/or relative, or a consumer debtor:
(i) to identify the non-budgetary causes (such as gambling abuse, compulsive behaviour, substance abuse, employment and marital or family difficulties) that may have contributed to his or her financial difficulties;
(ii) to better understand his or her behaviour in financial management and consumption habits; and
(iii) to make him or her aware of the existence of resources that will help him or her achieve and maintain economic stability; and
(c) cooperatively with the debtor, develop recommendations and alternatives for a financial plan of action that, if appropriate, may include referral for specialized counselling to deal with non-budgetary causes of insolvency.

So does counselling succeed in its objective to better educate debtors so they can better manage with their finances? Some trustees think that counselling is very useful; or even essential.
Saul Schwartz: Counselling the Overindebted: A Comparative Perspective (2005) https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/bsf-osb.nsf/vwapj/Schwartz-2005-ENG.pdf/$FILE/Schwartz-2005-ENG.pdf
Trustees as Noted by Saul Schwartz’s Study (above):
The trustee supports mandatory counselling despite believing, as do most trustees, that bankruptcy is not often an avoidable consequence of personal irresponsibility or ignorance.

Many trustees believe that their clients’ bankruptcies are unavoidable because they are caused by events such as unemployment, illness or family disruption.
I think that counselling is ineffective for the reasons I give in this article. https://www.bankruptcycanada.com/why-counselling-should-be-discontinued.htm