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Life after IVA & Bankruptcy
yellowlawn
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From my own personal experience of having an IVA, life after one especially after being used to having CC's is rather strange and sometimes difficult. Here are some things I have learned along the way, although not a definitive list and I don't speak from a financial services background.
Just a small note it can take upto six months or more for your IVA company to issue a Certificate of Satisfaction. Once paid they sit on your money and siphon off the excess interest. Go to HM Courts Service and get N443 Application for a certificate of satisfaction/cancellation. It costs £10 and if the case was not heard through a court, a judge will require some evidence that the debt has been cleared (paid). The court will also require the case number of your judgement. The number and the name of the court are shown on the Register of County Court Judgments under your name. The court will then issue a certificate of satisfaction and inform the Registry Trust that you have paid up in full. The court can take as long as it wants in doing this.
Next, write to Experian and Equifax with a copy of your certificate and ask them to add this to your credit file.
First of all Bank Accounts. The Government set a deadline for October 2000 for the banks to come up with a 'basic bank account solution'. This primarily aims to solve the payments of Giro's at the Post Office, but it also means that even if you have been made Bankrupt you should still qualify. What you don't get is a cheque book or guarantee card as well as an overdraft facility. What you do get is a debit card, phone banking, fee free and you can set up SO's and DD's
Starting a business. Perhaps the easiest way is to be a sole trader and get one of the bank accounts above. If your considering Ltd and have not been a bankrupt, even if you want to open a bank account your a director and major share holder they will want to do your credit rating. As it is for the first year with a Ltd company rarely will you obtain credit without some form of personal guarantee. Even less so with bad credit. Again look at the basic account above. The bank teller may baulk at you with the number of transactions you carry out on a personal account. They can't force you to change but can refuse your business.
If anyone else has more advice or constructive input please respond away.
Thankyou
Just a small note it can take upto six months or more for your IVA company to issue a Certificate of Satisfaction. Once paid they sit on your money and siphon off the excess interest. Go to HM Courts Service and get N443 Application for a certificate of satisfaction/cancellation. It costs £10 and if the case was not heard through a court, a judge will require some evidence that the debt has been cleared (paid). The court will also require the case number of your judgement. The number and the name of the court are shown on the Register of County Court Judgments under your name. The court will then issue a certificate of satisfaction and inform the Registry Trust that you have paid up in full. The court can take as long as it wants in doing this.
Next, write to Experian and Equifax with a copy of your certificate and ask them to add this to your credit file.
First of all Bank Accounts. The Government set a deadline for October 2000 for the banks to come up with a 'basic bank account solution'. This primarily aims to solve the payments of Giro's at the Post Office, but it also means that even if you have been made Bankrupt you should still qualify. What you don't get is a cheque book or guarantee card as well as an overdraft facility. What you do get is a debit card, phone banking, fee free and you can set up SO's and DD's
Starting a business. Perhaps the easiest way is to be a sole trader and get one of the bank accounts above. If your considering Ltd and have not been a bankrupt, even if you want to open a bank account your a director and major share holder they will want to do your credit rating. As it is for the first year with a Ltd company rarely will you obtain credit without some form of personal guarantee. Even less so with bad credit. Again look at the basic account above. The bank teller may baulk at you with the number of transactions you carry out on a personal account. They can't force you to change but can refuse your business.
If anyone else has more advice or constructive input please respond away.
Thankyou
Yellowlawn
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