Daily Allowance is Key to Budgeting

Released on = May 25, 2007, 5:25 am

Press Release Author = Interfinancial Limited

Industry = Financial

Press Release Summary = Interfinancial have discovered the key to successful
budgeting, according to a client survey

Press Release Body = Successful budgeters have a trick up their sleeves unknown to
their friends and relatives who are continually in debt claim loan brokers
Interfinancial Limited, and that trick is The Daily Allowance Rule.

Through their online loan broking system, www.allaboutloans.co.uk, Interfinancial
discovered that there was a key difference in budgeting between those customers
seeking secured personal loans and those taking out bad debt consolidation loans.

Abbi Rouse, Credit Verification Officer at Interfinancial says: \"We asked our
customers a few key questions and found an interesting difference in budgeting
skills between those who were seeking secured loans and those who were looking to
consolidate bad debts.

\"Whilst our home improvement loans clients were particularly savvy about budgeting,
those with poor credit history had never thought of working out their daily spending
allowance.\"

21 per cent of Interfinancial secured loan clients who responded to the survey
admitted to having worked out at some point just how much of their income was
available for them to spend on a daily basis and then budgeting accordingly. These
clients were familiar with the idea of taking their regular outgoings (such as rent,
mortgage or fuel bills) from their income and dividing the remainder into a Daily
Allowance.

The news was not so good for those with a history of CCJs, bad debt loans and missed
payments, however. Of these clients, only 3% had ever considered working out their
disposable income this way, preferring instead to buy now, think later. This will
come as no surprise to debt counselling organisations who regularly help people sort
through their financial muddles.

\"I think it\'s clear that those with a history of bad debt are unaware of how much of
their income they have to spend,\" says Rouse. \"These people are continually falling
into debt when their outgoings exceed their income. This only reinforces the
message from organisations like CAB that financial ignorance is costing the nation
dearly in terms of high credit interest rates and poor credit ratings.\"

Web Site = http://allaboutloans.co.uk

Contact Details = Interfinancial Limited, Dixcart House, St Peter Port, Guernsey,
GY1 1GX. 01481 701350

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