Deej,
Why don't you contact an agent of CMS and have them explain the fees.
No one who is in the program and no one who is an agent is going to spell it out for everyone to see.
There are people working for the CCs and CAs who want to know all about the program so 'they' may be able to figure a way to stop it.
They can not because it is 100% legit.
Your assumption of $2500. plus $43.00 is not correct, but I am not going to explain it to you. Call an agent and talk to them.
The CCs and CAs are desperate to stop this process. But they just are not sure how, other than to try and come on these forum things and scare as many people away from it as possible.
In credit management and credit settlement you have risks also. And if anyone has seriously looked into doing either of these with an agency, and waited before actually taking the plunge, they can tell you that the CCs will contact you, once you fall behind in payments, and offer you the same plan as the agency but it works out cheaper because you don't have any fees to pay.
And, by the way... no agency who handles these options guarantees anything either. They have the exact same disclaimers as CMS. Including the most advertised one
C**e O*n. I know as I was considering them and got as far as getting the paperwork and contract.
Also, I looked into 6 others and got contracts from 2 others.
They all read the same.
I did not do any of 'them' because I could not afford the $3000 to $4000 a month that they wanted to auto debit from my account monthly for the next several years.