After contributing to a debt management plan for a year my partner was recommended to change to a Trust Deed. This appeared a better option because the monthly contribution was less than what he was paying and over a shorter period. Unfortunately, my partner became unemployed for nine months and the Trustee moved for bankruptcy. Of the ?ú1800 paid in contributions the Trustee claimed the total in fees paying nothing to my creditors. Can they do this? They have now asked him to claim payment protection compensation from his loan or credit card companies too, is he obliged to co-operate? Lastly, we have now taken steps to contact his creditors to make some arrangement for repayment, do you think this is the correct course of action? Any advice would be most helpful.