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[R131]Reduce Credit Card Rate
by Susan Chinweike - Umeh, Sus

In the present days, most of the people have credit cards of different banks and financial institutions. These credit cards help them to get instant money whenever they want to purchase something but run short of money. This facility is very lucrative and people tend to use it very often forgetting the practical fact that you cannot get any type of money without working hard to earn it. Therefore, it means that the money that you are taking with the help of the credit card is a kind of loan that you are taking from the financial institution whose credit card you are using. This clearly means that you are increasing your debts by using the credit card. It is very easy to take a debt but the problem starts when you have to repay it. However, always keep one thing in mind that if you are not able to pay back the money within the stipulated time then the interest rate charged on the debt you have taken is higher than the normal interest rate that you pay for other loans. Therefore, knowingly or unknowingly, you increase your debt level to an extent that crosses your earnings and repayment becomes impossible.

However, do not panic you can reduce your credit card debt by starting to pay the minimum amount but do not rest in peace after paying the minimum amount as it is mostly used as payment of the interest and the capital amount remains as it. Therefore, the best way to start reducing the credit card debt is to immediately stopping any kind of purchase through the credit card. After that, you should evaluate all the credit cards that you have and find out the credit card on which your debt is the highest and repayment value is the highest. You should start repaying back the money of this credit card as delaying the payment will go on mounting your debt. Never ever, think of stopping the payment due on credit cards as the company will hire the services of the recovering companies and this will be an added payment in your account as service charges recovery. Another way to reduce the credit card debt is negotiation with the credit card company and developing a mutual understanding about the terms of payment that you will adopt to write off the debt that you have taken through the credit card.

There are many other ways to reduce your credit card debt but that depends on your credit record with the credit card company that is, a special facility is there in the company for those people who have repaid their excess amount regularly in the first six months whenever they have used the credit card beyond the prescribed limit. In such cases, the credit card company as a special facility for the credit card holders and that is you can request the credit card company to reduce the rate of interest. This will make it easy for you to repay the debt you have taken and reduce the credit card debt. Another way of reducing credit card debt is to take a consolidation loan, which means the consolidation of all the debts related to your credit cards and payment of a single amount at a fixed rate of interest. This way you can easily reduce your credit card debt and save some money.


There are many Americans today literally drowning in debt and one of the reasons for this is the relative ease of credit in the form of readily available credit cards. This problem has become so large that even the USA as a whole is addicted to debt and the US as a nation is a debtor nation to many major countries. Thus bad debt should be reduced in your personal finances so that you can start thinking of more profitable ways to employ your monthly income.

This article will highlight three simple but effective strategies to help you reduce your household debt and hopefully put you in better shape to start using the extra money saved from interest payments to make more money for your household via investment.

Firstly, you can consider using a debit card and stop using your credit card. What is the difference you may ask? A debit card is good only for the amount of money that you have in your bank account and will prevent you from splurging on the big ticket item that you saw in the shop front the other day. It also will help you cultivate the habit of spending the money that you currently have and not exceed your means.

Another variation on this idea is to pay for purchases with cash as this will mentally prevent you from spending on credit and losing your rational ability to manage your finances. We all know that sometimes a credit card generates in us this urge to spend and especially when we are under stress, we end up spending more than we should. Using cash or a debit card would help to counter such influences.

Secondly, make it a habit to pay all your credit card bills on time at the end of the month. We all have the habit of procrastination and so the best policy is to pay all your credit card and other bills in full at the end of the month. Did you know that the credit card companies and the banks make lots of money from consumers who do not pay their credit card bills on time based from the interest payable?

Thirdly, we should take some time monthly to examine our credit card bills and then take a highlighter to consider wasteful expenditure and then take efforts to cut down such expenditure. Some usually suspects include a cell phone plan that could be renegotiated so as to save money monthly. Some membership fees can also be cancelled if you are not going to your gym or country club as frequently as you wanted to.

In conclusion, we all love to make more money, but if your monthly credit card bills and interest payments start eating into the amount of money that you make, you will not be able to enjoy the increased income that you are earning. Spend some time considering the above mentioned three simple things that you can do each month and you might start seeing more cash in your bank account that you can use for other things.

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