Ottawa Credit Counselling Services
We provide free, confidential, non-judgmental credit counselling to help you get your finances back on track.
Free Credit & Debt Counselling Services in Ottawa
Free Credit Counselling Ottawa – Struggling to make your minimum payments? Are debt problems affecting your sleep, health, or relationships? We can help put an end to your stress. We serve all of Ottawa and the surrounding areas.
Canada’s Leading Provider of Non Profit Consumer Credit Counselling & Debt Solutions Services
We are an award winning non-profit consumer credit and debt counselling service providing help with debts, money management, and interest relief in Ottawa. Our experienced, professionally trained and certified Counsellors can help you put together a plan to:
- Create a spending plan to manage all of your living expenses
- Get your finances back on track
- Consolidate your debts in Ottawa with just one monthly payment
- Save thousands of dollars in interest
- Stop collection calls from creditors
Discover Your Options
A Visual Overview of Possible Options
Here are some options that may be available to you based on the information you have provided about your financial situation. The most likely options are in green, less likely in yellow, and least likely in red. This is only intended to provide you with a general idea of the options that may be available to you. A credit counsellor will need to go over your information in much more detail to make a more precise determination.0
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Do a Deeper Dive to Uncover More Options
It looks as though your situation requires more in-depth analysis from a trained credit counsellor. They can help you optimize your budget, explore options, and create a plan to get back on track.
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Self-Managed Solution
After thoroughly exploring your options with a credit counsellor, they can help you put together a plan to get out of debt in a reasonable amount of time. You can then implement this plan on your own.
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Debt Consolidation Loan
Based on the information you've provided, it appears as though this could be a possibility if your credit score is strong enough.
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Debt Management Program
It appears as though this may be an option for you. A Debt Management Program eliminates or drastically reduces interest and consolidates all payments into one.
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Consumer Proposal
This may be an option for you to consider. It's a legal process that consolidates all payments into one. Talk to a credit counsellor about this and see if it makes sense for your situation.
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Bankruptcy
Based on the information you've entered, it appears as though bankruptcy may be an option to resolve your financial challenges. You should speak with a credit counsellor about this and make sure you've exhausted all other options first.
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Orderly Payment of Debts
Based on what you've entered, it looks as though an Orderly Payment of Debts (OPD) program may be an option for you. To find out if this would make sense for your situation, you should speak with a credit counsellor.
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Voluntary Deposit
Based on the information you've provided, it looks as though a voluntary deposit program may be an option to address your debt situation.
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Online Workshops
Learn how to improve your financial situation, create a budget, make your dollars stretch further, and get out of debt with one of our many helpful online workshops we call webinars.
More Specifics on How We Can Help You
Get Help Today
Give us a call to speak with one of our credit counsellors at 1-888-527-8999, or if you'd like us to contact you instead, please fill out the form below.People We Helped Interviewed by the News Media
At times, the news media will interview one of the people we helped who are comfortable sharing their story with the public. Below are three of these stories.
Offering Free Consumer Debt & Credit Counselling Services for Over 25 Years
With 98% of clients surveyed reporting they would recommend our services to others,
Ottawa Office
331 - 116 Albert Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 5G3
Phone: 613-234-0505
Our Ottawa office also provides credit counselling services to Gatineau, Kanata, Nepean, Gloucester, Cumberland, Hull, Aylmer, Buckingham, Stittsville, Winchester, Smiths Falls, Embrun, Carleton Place, Perth, Arnprior, and Renfrew.
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It’s Okay to Ask for Help with Debt
“Life just happened. My debt got to the point where I started to feel like I was drowning. I didn’t feel like I could fix it on my own, and I wanted to start living my life as an adult without debt. I decided to reach out for help. Feeling relieved, I knew that everything was going to be okay – a lot of work – but okay. I had a plan to pay back my debt and continue doing the things I love to do like yoga and travelling.”
– Yasmine
More Info About the Credit Counselling Society & Our Approach
We’ve offered non profit consumer credit counselling for well over 25 years. 95% of Canadians who get in touch with us are often helped without being charged a cent. People only choose to pay for our help if they decide to go on our Debt Management Program. This consolidates each one of someone’s credit card and other unsecured debt payments into a single monthly payment that they can afford. The program either eliminates all credit card interest rates or drastically reduces them. Although this is a valuable program that eliminates debt, allows someone to re-establish their credit, protects their privacy, and gets their finances back in order as fast as possible, it’s just one of a number of ways that we’re able to help people.
We truly believe that the best debt consolidation or debt help in Ottawa is a solution that enables someone to get back on the right track as soon as possible while at the same time helping them accomplish their long term financial plans. Regrettably, the way we approach this is very different from the way some commission focused debt advisors, credit consultants, financial counselors, and credit advisors out there do things, but we firmly believe that when someone is having a difficult time financially, you need to carefully look into all options available to them and concentrate on what’s going to do the most to help them in the long-term. This is why we don’t pay any of our staff commission – only straight salaries. To also ensure our organization operates at the highest ethical standards and follows best practices, we have chosen to join, submit ourselves to audits by, and are accountable to Credit Counselling Canada and the National Foundation for Credit Counseling. We are also accountable to a volunteer board of directors, the Canada Revenue Agency, and are the only agency in our industry to open its books up to an external auditor annually. When it comes to earning and keeping your trust, we believe that maintaining the highest standards of transparency and accountability are paramount.
If you’d like one of our professionally trained counsellors to take a look at your situation and help you figure out what all your options are to get back on track, give us a call today at 613-234-0505. All you’ve got to lose is your debt.
The Credit Counselling Society also provides alternatives to filing for bankruptcy in Ottawa, Ontario.
Putting Your Interests First
Our goal is to always put consumers first and look out for their best interests in everything we do. One way we do this is through transparency and accountability. We are held accountable to the most rigorous standards in our industry.
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