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interest charges taking you over credit card limit

Hi there,
I have a question if anyone can help?
I have just begun my journey of getting out of debt with the help of national debt line and CASHflow. I have sent off my financial statements and letters offering reduced payment and asking to freeze the interest. I usually pay all my credit card bills on payday which is tomorrow but as I have only just sent the letters off I am actually going to be making my first reduced payments before I have had responses from any of my creditors.
I have researched quite a bit on these forums since I sent off my letters and having found that it can take a while to come to an agreement regarding the freezing of interest. I know that for a while my interest is possibly going to be higher than my payments and I will probably get default charges for not paying the minimum payment and therefore my debts may initially increase.
The issue is that I am pretty near the credit limit on all 5 cards and so my question is ; if the interest and charges take me up to my limit, can they increase to the point that they take me over my limit and therefore I get charged even more for being over limit?
Has anyone had any experience of this?
I'm worried now that the debt is going to accelerate faster than I first thought!
LBM 01/03/12 Debt £[STRIKE]27924[/STRIKE] :eek:
now £0 100% paid :j :beer: :T

Comments

  • BlushingRose
    BlushingRose Posts: 1,621 Forumite
    I've not heard of cashflow - are they a free organisation?

    Sometimes the debt will go up a bit at the beginning of a DMP but should still come down again once you get going.
    Our LBM: Dec 2011. DMP started: Jan 2012. Debt at LBM: £41,568

    Oct 2012 = Current debt: £40,548.93
    Oct 2013 = Current debt: £39.054.70


    DMP Support number 424 - Long haul number 308
  • CASHflow is a programme that National Debtline get you to sign on to. It has your debt info on there and your outgoings and it works out a financial statement for you and how much you can afford to pay each creditor and also has letters for you to download and send off. Yes it is free.
    LBM 01/03/12 Debt £[STRIKE]27924[/STRIKE] :eek:
    now £0 100% paid :j :beer: :T
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