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Understanding Personal Insolvency: Your Path to Financial Stability
When facing overwhelming debt, personal insolvency can offer a structured way to manage financial difficulties. RSM Australia provides expert personal insolvency services, guiding you through complex situations such as bankruptcy, debt agreements, and financial recovery.
What is personal insolvency?
Insolvency means you are unable to pay money that you owe. Personal insolvency relates to not being able to pay your personal debts.
Personal debts could include:
- Loan debt, such as from a personal loan or mortgage
- Credit card or store card debt
- Lease agreement debt, such as from a car lease
- Tax debt
- Business debt that you have personally guaranteed
If you're facing financial difficulties, contact RSM Australia today.
Our team of experts is ready to assist you with personal insolvency, debt agreements, and financial recovery solutions tailored to your situation.
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When you can’t pay your debts, what are your options?
If you’re overwhelmed with debt and can’t see a way out, there are a number of options available to you.
These options can help you deal with unsecured debt (loans, credit cards, business or tax debt). Secured debt – where the creditor has security over your car or home – will often result in the creditor repossessing the property to recover their money.
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Frequently asked questions
A Declaration of Intention (DOI) gives you 21 days relief from creditors who are pursuing you for unsecured debt. A Registered Trustee can lodge a DOI on your behalf, and work with you in that time to create an achievable recovery plan.
Submitting a DOI is confidential and will not appear on any public register.
A debt agreement is an official arrangement to pay off your debt in a way you can afford. A registered debt administrator or trustee takes control of the debt, and you pay them instead of individual creditors.
There are limits to the amount of debt and income you can have to be eligible for a debt agreement. The full negotiated debt amount must also be paid within a certain time period.
Your name will temporarily appear on a public register if you enter a debt agreement.
A personal insolvency agreement is an official arrangement to pay off your debt in a way you can afford. A Registered Trustee is appointed to communicate with creditors and sell certain assets, and the mutually agreed debt amount is paid off in a lump sum or via instalments.
There are no debt, income or time limits to a personal insolvency agreement other than what is mutually agreed between you, the Registered Trustee and your creditors.
Your name will appear on a public register permanently.
Bankruptcy is a complete financial re-set. Most of your unsecured debt is wiped clean and a trustee is appointed to liquidate all of your assets to pay creditors (with the exception of essentials).
Bankruptcy lasts for 3 years and 1 day, and during that period you will face certain restrictions, such as:
- you can’t be the director of a company
- you need to seek permission to travel overseas
- you need to declare your bankruptcy if you attempt to get credit over a certain amount
- you need to contribute earnings over a certain amount
Your name will appear on a public register permanently. This is separate to your credit file with credit reporting agencies, which will usually show your bankruptcy for 5 years from the date you became bankrupt, or 2 years from when your bankruptcy ends (whichever is later).
When you feel as though you’re drowning in debt and creditors are constantly calling, it’s important to get someone on your side who understands the options available to you and can help you make an informed decision.
As restructuring and recovery experts, our Registered Trustees can support you:
- in deciding which option to take
- in developing a recovery plan for your future
- as the trustee for a personal insolvency agreement, bankruptcy or debt agreement
We offer preliminary assistance free of charge, so you don’t need to worry about incurring more debt when seeking support to review your personal circumstances and debts.
If a creditor has petitioned for your bankruptcy, we can explain your options and the steps you should take.
When bankruptcy is unavoidable, we’ll also help you see that it’s not the end of the road – but rather a chance to recover and re-set.
With the right information from a Registered Trustee on how to successfully navigate your bankruptcy and rebuild your wealth, you can move beyond the debilitating stress that significant debt causes and towards a brighter future.
To speak with your personal insolvency expertat RSM, please contact your local personal insolvency professional >>
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