Non-profit helps thousands get out of credit card debt [Video]

SAN DIEGO — The holidays can be the best time of the year, if you don’t slip into debt buying gifts for your loved ones.

If you’re already there, the nation’s largest non-profit credit counseling agency may be able to help.

Money Management International is a non-profit credit counseling agency that’s been helping people improve their lives through financial education, since the 1950’s.

“We help people struggling with credit card debt, housing, student loan issues, seeking bankruptcy perhaps and we give them solid financial advice, from a non-profit, who’s here to help them,” MMI President and CEO Jim Triggs said.

MMI helps tens of thousands of people every year. They counsel 12,000 people a month and about 45,000 consumers are paying off debt within five years through their …