MBNA America Raised rates when payments were never late excellent payment history wouldn't change rates back account now delinquent Ripoff Wilmington Delaware

Unfortunately this is a classic case of not reading your credit card agreement. Proper resolution of this could still have been acheived however you chose to work with a "financial company to pay the debt". Your wording here is important.

The financial company you are working with is not a legitimate debt consolidation organization. What companies like this one do is collect large upstart fees from clients in the name of promising lower rates for consumers. Unfortunately these companies did not take into account that credit card companies would catch wind of what was going on. Legitimate debt consolidation companies are NON PROFIT like CCCS.

Where you pay them a particular amount plus a SMALL fee to cover ONLY administration fees for you. MBNA and other credit card companies have decided not to work with for profit organizations, most of which were started by former employees of the credit industry.

What credit companies are doing now instead is referring people to places like CCCS and if they refuse in favor of these companies they file suit against the consumers. The logic is because these companies have promised rates they can not deliver, they skim a large portion of each monthly payment given to them for their own profit and try to take as much as 20-30 years to pay off the debt of consumers....not that they disclose any of this.

Also, many of these companies are under investigation for fraudlent practices. CCCS is recommended because they don't promise rates they can't deliver and they charge only a small administration fee (generally around 10$ a month)and have consumers out of debt in 3-5 years depending on the debt load of the consumer.

If the judgement has not actually been filed yet, and you have not alredy been subpeona'd, drop the company you are working with and run to the nearest CCCS office. Another decent company is CCOA (credit counselors of America).

All credit companies work with them and they will give you an honest assesment of your situation. This will prevent a judgement since credit companies don't file for them against people working with these organizations.