• Cutting card holders’ credit limits, even below their balance – credit card companies have been cutting borrowers’ credit limits in an effort to contain their rising default rates, and in some case to limits below the borrowers’ outstanding balances.
• Raising interest rates, even for the best customers – imagine spending years paying off all of your debts on time, making sure your creditors are happy, only to have your interest rates raised to twice or even three times what they have been? This is happening to people all over the country. A recent survey found that 93% of credit cards offered by the largest 12 issuers have contract terms that allow them to hike rates at any time for any reason.
• Penalty APRs as high as 32% - Your APR (or annual percentage rate) could get above 30% even for the most responsible credit card user. Payments one day late or even $1 short could be followed by such penalties.
• Banks are making consumers pay down low-rate balances before high-rate debt – issuers are applying consumer payments to low-rate balances where their high-rate balances keep growing. Banks are making sure your debt continues to grow, something that a qualified debt settlement professional can help you with.
• Shutting Down People’s Accounts – What used to be a card that could be used for purchases now becomes a debt you owe.
• Shrinking grace periods – Usually a grace period will be anywhere from a week to a month, but they have been shrinking from 25 days to 22.5 days since 2008 (that’s on average, sometimes they are less than that).
Consolidate Credit Card Debt
You may not know this, but you have numerous weapons at your disposal to fight mounting credit card debts. You can consolidate your credit cards and begin paying off the crippling debts that are keeping you from enjoying your life and experiencing financial freedom. Credit card debt consolidation involves hiring a qualified and experienced credit card debt consolidation company to help you pay down, reduce and possibly even eliminate your credit card debts.