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 Consumer debt counseling can save you thousands of dollars. Are you like
many Americans? Do you carry more than one credit card? There’s nothing wrong
with that, if you use them responsibly. If you use them only in an emergency,
or if you use When you go to a consumer debt counseling agency for help, they negotiate with your creditors to create a restructuring plan for you. You will pay one convenient monthly payment to the agency that you are working with. They will distribute the money to your creditors. You no longer receive harassing phone calls from your creditors, and your credit card balances will begin to fall. Past due accounts will be re-aged and brought current. Each month, when you pay your credit card payment, only some of that payment comes off of your balance. The rest is applied to the interest that was charged to your account. When a consumer debt counseling agency contacts your creditors to arrange for repayment of the debts, they are also able to reduce or eliminate your interest. Therefore, a larger portion of your monthly payment will be applied to the balance. This means that your credit cards will be paid off in a fraction of the time. . Consumer
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on a regular basis and pay the balances off each month, you are using your credit
cards wisely. However, if you carry high balances at all times, you could be hurting
your credit score. It is hard to pay down your credit cards, once you have them
maxed out - especially if you reach a point in which you are unable to make your
payments on time or unable to make the minimum monthly payments. Then you will
have late fees and over limit fees assessed to your account. Even if you did not
use your credit card again, it would still take quite a while to pay off a maxed
out credit card balance. If you have multiple credit cards that are maxed out,
and you are struggling to pay even the minimum monthly payments, 
