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Help please such a dilema

Hi, Me and my partner have about £10,000 worth of debt between us that we are really struggling to pay.

We called a debtmanagement team and they asked for all our debters and amounts we owed.

We gave them them all and have arranged to pay £250 per month to the debt management team to get us out of this black hole.

One problem is i'm sure i have more debt somewhere that i have fobbed off at previous addresses i know its wrong but really need to find them and get them sorted.

They are not on my credit report with experian, any idea how i find them? I need to get there details to pass to the debt managements company to add to our debt.


Please help.

Love Danielle xx

Comments

  • Hi
    Is your DMP with a non-fee paying company such as CCCS, CAB or Payplan? If not, please move to one of these companies.
    Debt 30k in 2008.:eek::o Cleared all my debt in 2013 and loving being debt free :)
    Mortgage free since 2014 :)
  • Ossireo
    Ossireo Posts: 573 Forumite
    Not sure how you can trace old debt if you have no paperwork sorry :confused:

    However I am going to echo Deep In Debt and say you need to get away from that Debt Company .. you are paying them £250 a month which is money you could be paying to clear your debt even quicker!!! Companies like Payplan and CCCS do exactly the same job for free so I would make your priority to move to them!
  • Hi
    Is your DMP with a non-fee paying company such as CCCS, CAB or Payplan? If not, please move to one of these companies.

    I WORK FOR A FANINCIAL SOLUTIONS COMPANY ALL I CAN SAY IS THE CAB IS A WASTE OF TIME A WELL KNOWN FACT THAT MORE THEN 60% OF FREE ADVICE YOU GET IS TOTAL RUBBISH THE PEOPLE THAT WORK FOR CAB ARE VOLUNTEERS WHO COME FROM VARIOUS WALKS OF LIFE NO DE-RESPECT TO THEM THE ARE DOING AN AMAZING JOB BUT THE FACT IS THEY ARE NOT TRAINED IN THIS FIELD DEBT MANAGEMENT IS A BUSINESS WE HELP PEOPLE CAB PAYPLAN CCCS ONLY GIVE ADVICE IF PEOPLE COULD MANAGE THIER OWN FINANCIES WHY WOULD I GO TO WORK EVERYDAY?
  • ~Beanie~
    ~Beanie~ Posts: 3,043 Forumite
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    nasa wrote: »
    I WORK FOR A FANINCIAL SOLUTIONS COMPANY ALL I CAN SAY IS THE CAB IS A WASTE OF TIME A WELL KNOWN FACT THAT MORE THEN 60% OF FREE ADVICE YOU GET IS TOTAL RUBBISH THE PEOPLE THAT WORK FOR CAB ARE VOLUNTEERS WHO COME FROM VARIOUS WALKS OF LIFE NO DE-RESPECT TO THEM THE ARE DOING AN AMAZING JOB BUT THE FACT IS THEY ARE NOT TRAINED IN THIS FIELD DEBT MANAGEMENT IS A BUSINESS WE HELP PEOPLE CAB PAYPLAN CCCS ONLY GIVE ADVICE IF PEOPLE COULD MANAGE THIER OWN FINANCIES WHY WOULD I GO TO WORK EVERYDAY?

    You obviously will recommend your fee charging company as they pay your wages and if everyone went to a free charity, you would be out of a job.

    OP, to echo what the others have said, DO NOT use a company that charges you a fee for doing what CCCS or PayPlan will do for free. PLEASE ring one of the them, if only to get their advice.

    Your debts may not all show on Experian as there are 3 credit reference agencies and different companies use different ones. You need to get your report from all three of them.
    :p
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