Heres the litmus test for determining if you have too much debt: if your income was delayed, could you pay your monthly bills? If you couldnt meet those expenses, youve got too much debt, says Doug Hoyes, licensed insolvency trustee for debt relief experts Hoyes, Michalos & Associates. We often see our clients facing this situation. They might think the answer is to borrow to alleviate the immediate problem. But the solution to too much debt is not to get into more debt. You have to get off the hamster wheel.
The cycle Hoyes is talking about goes something like this: Something happens to cause an initial shortfall. It might be that you get sick, injured, lose your job, split with your partner. You start to put too much on your credit card…
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