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Credit Auto Loan with Disability Income
Getting approved for a car loan can be a difficult process if you have bad credit. It can even be more complicated if you receive disability income. However, it is not impossible.
Many people on disability who have bad credit have successfully financed a vehicle. You can potentially do the same if you meet certain requirements an
Before you consider financing a vehicle on disability, you should know the initial requirements. To start, you need to have proof of being on disability for at least six months before applying for a car loan. Additionally, you must be able to show that you will continue to receive this income for the full loan term.
It is also a common requirement that you need to have another source of income that can be garnished. However, there are other options if you only receive money from disability.
A Garnishable Income or Co signer
Co-Signer
Co-Signer
work with a car dealership that is willing to assist subprime car buyers.
If you do not have any garnishable income, the next step would be to find a co-signer. A co-signer is typically someone close to you that agrees to take financial responsibility if you miss payments or default on the loan. While a co-signer will make it easier to get approved for a car loan, he or she risks their credit rating in the process.
Buy Here Pay Here Dealerships
Even if you do not have a garnishable income or co-signer, you may still be able to get approved through a buy here pay here dealership. Buy here pay here dealerships typically work with individuals that have any source of regular income. You will need to have a down payment, proof of residence, proof of insurance and a valid driver’s license.
Getting approved at one of these dealerships is easier, but there are disadvantages. You may have to pay quite a bit more than a vehicle is worth over the course of the loan. Additionally, you may have to finance an older vehicle and with higher mileage than what you had initially wanted.
However, the benefits of these dealers may ultimately outweigh the disadvantages. They can potentially get you in a vehicle and many of them report your loan and payments to the credit bureaus. This means you can improve your credit with each timely payment.
Get Back on the Road Today
Regardless of your source of income or credit situation, you can begin the process of getting back on the road as quickly as possible by applying with Auto Credit Express. We have assisted thousands of people with bad credit in the car buying process. Just fill out our quick online application and one of our representatives will be in touch with you soon.
Hidden Risks in Your Credit Cards
In a way, there’s a parallel between corporations mandating arbitration cases and the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) process placed into international trade agreements. Under this process, corporations can sue sovereign governments if they believe regulations violate the terms of the trade agreement. Like arbitration, ISDS stays outside national courts, and corporations can win cash awards based on expectations of future profits lost through the regulatory changes. Private lawyers, not judges, hear the cases.
So the lesson here is that corporations don’t respect the judicial system as much as they want to bend it to their advantage. As 100 law professors wrote in a letter to Congress and the U.S. Trade Representative this week, ISDS “grants foreign corporations a special legal privilege,” weakening the rule of law. You can say the same things about mandatory arbitration clauses. In both cases, corporations can step outside the legal system and into a process they feel they can control, whether to chill regulations or to stop individuals from suing for relief.
Both ISDS and consumer arbitration have no appeals process. They feature no public oversight of the arbitrators. They create no precedent on corporations that they must follow. So there’s no accountability, no review and no fairness. The only difference is that ISDS exists as an option for corporations; consumers have no alternative but arbitration.
The good news is we have a consumer agency now that has managed to study arbitration, with a focus on how it affects ordinary people, not the financial industry. I hope they finish the job.
Credit Card Debt Trap
There was no joy like that last mortgage payment, and our parents prided themselves on burning that paper, hopefully before they retired.
These days, baby boomers increasingly are carrying that debt into retirement.
And while there are pluses to that (the interest rate deduction for some), many financial planners now advise their clients to pay off the mortgage. But they are much more concerned with credit-card, auto-loan and student-loan debt.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says the percentage of homeowners ages 65 and older with mortgage debt increased from 22 percent in 2001 to 30 percent in 2011. Among homeowners 75 and older, the rate more than doubled, from 8.4 to 21.2 percent.
And the median mortgage debt for seniors increased by 82 percent, from about $43,400 to $79,000.
The CFPB said, in a report last year, that rising mortgage debt is “threatening the retirement security of millions of older Americans. In general, older consumers are carrying more debt, including mortgage, credit card and even student loan debt, into their retirement years.”
It’s a trend that distresses financial planners and retirement planners.
“My philosophy with regard to debt is when you retire your debt should be retired,” says Ken Moraif, senior adviser at Money Matters in North Dallas, Tex. “We really adhere to that with our clients. If they have debt, we want to embark on a journey of getting it paid down and maybe working longer to generate the cash flow to accelerate the payments to get it paid off.”
Moraif says one of the dangers of retiring with mortgage debt is that the economy and markets may turn bad.
“The money you thought would be there to service your mortgage is not there,” he says. “Now what? I’m sure the bank will not say, ‘I will let you live there for free.’ ”
James Gambaccini, financial adviser at Acorn Financial Services in Reston, Va., notes a stark difference between baby boomers retiring today and their Depression-era parents.
“People who lived through the Depression wouldn’t think about retirement without having all their debt cleared,” he says. “Boomers are not only fine with it, but prior to the crash, they tried to retire with a lot of debt. We had people trying to retire and build that dream home of 15,000 square feet. That is somewhat unique to baby boomers.”
Mark Hebner, president of Index Fund Advisors, says the retirees with the least amount of stress and the most financial freedom are those with the lowest fixed expenses.
“One of the problems with debt is it contributes to your fixed expenses in retirement,” he says. “The more you have, the less room you have for variable expenses, such as entertainment and travel.”
So what can you do if you’re preparing for retirement and believe you have too much debt?
Reduce expenses. “What we like to do is see how we can pay down that debt to their comfort zone,” says Roger Stinnett, managing director of planning at First Foundation Advisors in Los Angeles. “We will create a budget. Where can we reduce other expenses so we have more cash flow to apply toward paying debt?”
Pay off credit cards first. “For sure, you have to pay that off,” Moraif says. “You cannot have $20,000 in credit-card debt and pay that out of your retirement.”
Pay down the mortgage faster. If you’re an avid saver, it may make sense to redirect some of that money you’re putting into your retirement savings to pay down your mortgage earlier.
Delay retirement or work part time to pay off the debt. “I advise clients to keep working to pay off debt,” Moraif says. “Maybe spend another six months or year working. You will spend the rest of your life with no debt. It’s worth it.”
As Stinnett puts it: “We want our clients to sleep well in retirement. If you can sleep well with no debt, then that is the answer.”
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