Let’s admit it. If in this time period you need a planned exit from your own financial distress in the UK, one that will be firmly governed by legislation, you will probably have to utilize one of the big two remedies, bankruptcy or an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA). Sure, you might mess around for a long time with a debt management plan however seeing that you’ll have to pay back every red cent of your personal liabilities, you need to take a long term view with a debt management plan. After all you may have to serve what adds up to a repayment time period of up to 10 years or maybe more before your complete liabilities are cleared and there’s no certainty that each one of your creditors will agree to freeze interest charges or waive penalty charges. In point of fact there isn’t any legal obligation on them to do anything of the kind. You are really banking on the goodness of other people while you’re in a debt management plan and even should you successfully carry out the program, your credit file will still have to be restored at the end of the term. Certainly if your personal debt levels are low enough, if you have virtually no assets and if you’ve got negligible disposable income you may be eligible for a Debt Relief Order. The Debt Relief Order might be described as the poor man’s bankruptcy because the minimal limits prevent entry to this choice: debts under 15,000, assets less than 300 and monthly disposable income less than 50.