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With a large number of Britons struggling with debt problems, the news that the Bank of England might well increase its base interest rate in 2015 was certainly not welcomed by anyone. Homeowners who are on the Standard Variable Rate (SVR) offered by their lender or are approaching the end of their current deal can […]
What would happen to a nation if its citizens were to gradually earn less instead of more? A logical answer to that question would be that they would eventually succumb to debt and that many of them will in the end face bankruptcy. The sad reality is that we are not talking about a theoretical […]
New research by insurance firm Aviva reveals that many of the seven million people in the UK who are currently renting a property are more vulnerable to debt problems should they suffer a sudden and unexpected loss of earnings or incur unforeseen expenditure. The study revealed that, while 13% of those living in a home […]
In a recent article we reported on research carried out by the British charity StepChange, which showed that problem debt is costing the UK in the region of £8.3 billion a year. Traditionally, debt has been a much bigger problem in the under-40 age group, but a new study recently revealed that debt among the […]
Although the latest figures about per capita personal loan debt in the Chorley region do not cover all building societies and banks, they are nevertheless quite worrying. Data compiled by the Council of Mortgage Lenders and the British Bankers’ Association shows that the average resident of Chorley has a personal loan debt of more than […]
StepChange, a national debt charity, has carried out extensive research on the cost of what it calls ‘problem debt’ – and the results are quite astounding. After studying the files of more than 100,000 of its clients, it calculated that the total cost to the UK taxpayer is in the reign of £8.3 billion per year. […]
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