Money Advice Trust
http://www.moneyadvicetrust.org/imag...nal_report.pdf
An independent review of the fee-charging debt management industry
Sharon Collard
Personal Finance Research Centre
University of Bristol
June 2009
http://www.moneyadvicetrust.org/imag...nal_report.pdf
An independent review of the fee-charging debt management industry
Sharon Collard
Personal Finance Research Centre
University of Bristol
June 2009
poor
practice identified includes:
• Customers noting that some fee-chargers told them the level of fees very
late in the process, some feeling they were in a worse financial position
than before they contacted the company
• Customers noting that creditors were being paid late by the fee-charging
company, or not at all
• Creditors noting that there was considerable variation in the standard of
financial statements received
• Creditors’ concern about high levels of fees and charges
practice identified includes:
• Customers noting that some fee-chargers told them the level of fees very
late in the process, some feeling they were in a worse financial position
than before they contacted the company
• Customers noting that creditors were being paid late by the fee-charging
company, or not at all
• Creditors noting that there was considerable variation in the standard of
financial statements received
• Creditors’ concern about high levels of fees and charges
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