A Personal Insolvency Arrangement (or a PIA for short) is a new Insolvency Solution in Ireland. If you are a homeowner and you are struggling financially and your mortgage payments are too much, or if you have burdening unmanageable debt on credit cards, loans etc..., then a PIA might be a suitable debt solution for you.
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A PIA allows you to deal with secured debt (ie. mortgage debt) of up to €3,000,000, however this limit can be negotiable with creditors. The Personal Insolvency Arrangement usually lasts about 6 years.
The PIA must be approved by atleast 65% of your creditors (50% of your secured creditors and 50% of your unsecured creditors). If an agreement is reached then the Insolvency Service of Ireland will be informed and they will then transmit the arrangement to the appropriate Court.
Once the arrangement is agreed, it will be legally binding on all creditors. Interest and charges will be frozen on your unsecured debts. The mortgage lender will have agreed to one of several options outlined in the proposal for dealing with the secured debt. This could be lowering interest rates, extending the term, an equity stake in exchange for balance write off, to name a few possible scenarios.
On completion of your PIA, any remaining debt and mortgage write offs are discharged.
There is a condition in a PIA that after completion, if you sell your property in the future there may be a claw back on any written off amounts for the lesser of 20 years or the expiry of the mortgage term.