Credit card debt consolidation
There is a lot said and heard about it in newspapers, television, internet, chat forums and just about any discussion on credit cards. Credit card debt consolidation is often regarded as the first step towards credit card debt elimination. We see it all over the sky ads, in fact, its everywhere. All those loan repayment offers that are springing up all over Ireland!
Put simply, credit card debt consolidation is about shifting (transferring balance) your debt from one or more of your credit cards to another credit card. Generally you transfer balances from the higher APR credit card to the lower APR one. This obviously means that you are trying to reduce your outgo on the interest component of the credit card debt and hence reducing the rate at which your current debt is building up (this, of course, doesn’t include the new debt created by new spending). Other, less significant, reasons for balance transfer could include things like additional benefits on the new credit card, ease of debt tracking, lower annual fees etc.
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