Debt Review Removals
Debt Review Removal allows consumers to remove the Debt Review flag from their credit profile. This process, facilitated through the courts and supported by our dedicated legal team, is designed to alleviate the frustrations of those seeking to regain financial independence. It’s not an extension of Debt Review but a vital step in helping consumers move past it, enabling them to fully regain control over their financial future.
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Struggling to access new credit or loans?
Missing out on opportunities due to debt review restrictions?
Feeling stuck with a lingering financial label?
Our Debt Review Removal Process:
Assessment
Our expert team will complete a free assessment for you to establish and advise whether you qualify to exit debt review. To qualify, you need to be under debt review, and your income needs to be more than your expenses.
Application
We will require you to provide us with documentation and the signed application form to finalise your registration.
Payment
We will provide you with a quote to consider the service and assist with a payment plan once you decide to proceed.
Compilation
Once at least 50% of the payment is received, we will complete your court application and give instruction to our attorneys to proceed to court. All supporting documentation will be required at this stage.
Court Order
Our attorneys will apply to court to have your court order granted, declaring you as no longer over-indebted. This court order confirms that you are no longer under debt review.
Status Updated
The granted court order is sent to the National Credit Regulator to update your debt review status.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does this Debt Review Removal work?
Our dedicated sales team assess your remaining credit accounts with outstanding balances, and compare the installments required with your monthly income. They calculate whether if your income is enough to pay your essential living expenses, as well as the original required monthly instalments. If so, they will assist you with registration and a payment arrangement.
Thereafter, we give instruction to our attorneys to proceed with a No-Longer Over-Indebted Court Application. This Court application is to prove that your financial situation has changed since you originally registered for debt review in the past.
The attorneys obtain any required documents from you as the consumer and issue the court application to obtain a court date for your court matter. On the court date, the magistrate should grant your court order. This court order then declares that you do still have credit in your name, but that you do not require debt review to pay the accounts anymore, because you are able to pay the normal larger installments yourself. Once the Magistrate grants a court order declaring that you are no longer over indebted, our office will then send the court order to the National Credit Regulator to update your status. The debt review notice is then removed from your credit profile by the credit bureaus. Thereafter, you solely remain responsible for paying your creditors.
Q: How long will it take to clear my name?
This process, from registration to obtaining your granted court order, will take approximately 3 to 4 months. This is mainly due to the courts providing us with court dates approximately 3 months ahead of time. We, unfortunately; do not have control of when court dates are available and given.
Will I be able to obtain new debt or credit accounts once my name is cleared?
Yes, however this is dependent on your credit score. The removal of the debt review status from your credit profile, does not guarantee that you will immediately qualify for new credit.
The debt review status on your credit profile is only one factor considered by credit providers when assessing your eligibility for new credit agreements. The granting of credit by a credit provider is based on various other criteria, including your payment history, amount of credit accounts, etc.
Can anyone under debt review apply for this process?
No. To qualify for the Debt Review Removal service, your financial situation needs to be of such a nature that you can afford your living expenses and debt repayments as per the original contractual agreement with creditors, i.e. the original instalments and interest rates that you were paying prior to Debt Review. We use your Net Income amount and deduct your debt installments and living expenses from it. If the amount ends in a surplus, we can assist. However, if the amount ends in a deficit, we cannot assist as you then still require the assistance of lowered debt review installments through debt review or other services.
How do I know you are not a fraudulent company trying to scam me?
CreditSmart is a Registered Financial Services Provider: FSP: 52295
CreditSmart is also a Debt Counselling company registered with the National Credit Regulator with registration number NCRDC3143, operating under Jakobus Lodewikus Olivier. This is visible on the National Credit Regulator’s website under the Register of Registrants page.
We have various registered debt counsellors working here at CreditSmart, and all employees have much experience with debt review, debt counselling, and other debt related matters.
We were voted one of the Top 5 Small Debt Counselling companies last year 2023, as announced in the Annual Debt Review Awards.
What Our Clients Say
Thank you very much for being so diligent in your work… You guys are the best in what you do. I always recommend people to you. Your service is very professional.
Nakedi
If you are ever looking for a professional reputable Debt Review company, look no further than CreditSmart. My experience with this company has been very smooth. It was supposed to be a five-year review, but with their help, I was able to do it in four years.
Nakedi
You had me bursting out in tears when my clearance email came through… THANKS BE TO GOD. Dealing with CreditSmart has been a true blessing and walking this Debt Review journey with CreditSmart has been the best decision I have ever made. Thank you for treating me with so much respect and dignity.