Beat the banks with this simple maths hack

What if I told you that credit card companies use a carefully constructed mathematical trap to keep you in debt? But you can beat them and you can knock decades off the time it takes you to clear your debt and save yourself thousands of pounds in interest. So, give you an example. Let's say we take the typical UK debt on a credit card of around about £3,000 and we say they are charging you 22% interest. Then the minimum monthly payment on that might be around about £75 in month one. Then in month two they will suggest the minimum monthly payment will probably be around about £74 because your debts fallen ever so slightly. These minimum payments are typically calculated based on a percentage of your outstanding debt. What happens is it will take you about 27 years to clear that debt and you will pay about £4,000 in interest. But you can use mathematics in your favor and beat them. If instead you didn't pay the minimum amount each month, but called the card company up and said, "I want to pay a fixed amount. " And let's assume you fix it at that initial £75 a month because you can afford that. So each month thereafter, you pay £75 regardless if your debt gets smaller and smaller. And in doing so, you will clear that debt in about six years. and you will save yourself £1,500 in interest. So you can not only clear your debt sooner, save yourself money without paying any more a month, but you can use that money in the long term to make yourself more wealthy.