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'Debt Tops List For Worried Britons'
By Sky News SkyNews - Tuesday, September 11 06:46 amA record number of people are asking for help to cope with unmanageable debt.
The Citizens Advice Bureau says it saw a 20% increase last year in people seeking assistance for financial problems.
CAB has said the numbers of people who need help with debt doubled during the past 10 years.
Debt now accounts for one in three of all enquiries that CAB receives, with the group's advisers in England and Wales dealing with more than 6,600 debt problems every working day.
Citizens Advice warned that there was no let up in the rising toll of casualties from the credit boom and recent sharp increases in the cost of living.
Credit card debt and problems with unsecured loans dominated the enquiries it received, accounting for 40% of CAB's debt caseload, with one in four debt enquiries relating to credit and store cards.
Citizens Advice, the UK's largest provider of free, independent debt advice, said its figures also indicated many people are increasingly struggling to meet their day-to-day living expenses.
It said problems with people falling behind with their gas and electricity bills jumped by more than a third during the year, while those with council tax arrears rose by 25%...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/200709 ... ed5_2.html
See also http://www.bbc.co.uk & http://www.cbn.org & http://www.jpost.com - as I may well be killed @ any time for open air preaching & for exposing radical Islam in here & on other Christian forums in the past 6 years - I first got online just days after 9/11
See
Website to show new bin Laden video
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=29759
See also Bin Laden says US should convert
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=29759&p=346981#p346981
& To the Streets!
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=22619
& Street work in the UK
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=25734
Must go!
Ian
By Sky News SkyNews - Tuesday, September 11 06:46 amA record number of people are asking for help to cope with unmanageable debt.
The Citizens Advice Bureau says it saw a 20% increase last year in people seeking assistance for financial problems.
CAB has said the numbers of people who need help with debt doubled during the past 10 years.
Debt now accounts for one in three of all enquiries that CAB receives, with the group's advisers in England and Wales dealing with more than 6,600 debt problems every working day.
Citizens Advice warned that there was no let up in the rising toll of casualties from the credit boom and recent sharp increases in the cost of living.
Credit card debt and problems with unsecured loans dominated the enquiries it received, accounting for 40% of CAB's debt caseload, with one in four debt enquiries relating to credit and store cards.
Citizens Advice, the UK's largest provider of free, independent debt advice, said its figures also indicated many people are increasingly struggling to meet their day-to-day living expenses.
It said problems with people falling behind with their gas and electricity bills jumped by more than a third during the year, while those with council tax arrears rose by 25%...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/200709 ... ed5_2.html
See also http://www.bbc.co.uk & http://www.cbn.org & http://www.jpost.com - as I may well be killed @ any time for open air preaching & for exposing radical Islam in here & on other Christian forums in the past 6 years - I first got online just days after 9/11
See
Website to show new bin Laden video
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=29759
See also Bin Laden says US should convert
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=29759&p=346981#p346981
& To the Streets!
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=22619
& Street work in the UK
viewtopic.php?f=27&t=25734
Must go!
Ian