Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
New insight from Lowell’s Vulnerability Index has indiacted a 11% rise in financial vulnerability across the pandemic (Q3 2019 to Q1 2021) The Financial Vulnerability Index, is a joint project between Lowell, one of the largest credit management services companies in Europe, and the Urban Institute, a leading U.S.-based research organization, uses unique Lowell data…
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Credit Style, part of the Bristow & Sutor Group, says energy sector workers who have lost their jobs recently should consider changing career paths, highlighting the volume of roles available in debt recovery and the transferable skills that are of interest to employers in the sector. The current energy crisis has seen over a dozen…
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced changes to the Universal Credit Taper rate, which is the amount of Universal Credit (UC) withdrawn for every pound someone earns (from 63% to 55%, so for every extra £1 earned, 55p of Universal Credit will be withdrawn) as part of his latest budget announcement. StepChange Debt Charity says that…
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Here is an overview of The Money Charity’s latest statistics for October 2021 Personal debt in the UK People in the UK owed £1,745.7 billion at the end of August 2021. The average total debt per household, including mortgages, was £62,813 and per adult was £33,006, around 108.9% of average earnings. Net mortgage lending rose by…
Read moreA new report by Aryza has found an increase in the numberstruggling to manage their personal finances. Drawing on a dataset of nearly 300,000 insolvent UK consumers currently struggling with their personal finances, the company’s latest debt statistics report found the average debt level across the UK to be £17,823. This is compared to £15,924…
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The record energy price cap increase of £139 in October is set to push two in five families into debt with their supplier, according to the latest Household Financial Confidence Tracker from comparethemarket.com. 43% of families with children at home believe that if energy bills increase it will push them into debt with their energy…
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Credit Connect has confirmed the line-up for next week’s Credit & Collections Technology Awards which takes place at the Midland Hotel in Manchester next Thursday (4th November). The awards are judged by a panel of industry experts who have reviewed technological excellence in four different categories sections: creditor and lender, collections and recoveries, applied technology, and…
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The Credit & Collections Technology Think Tank has confirmed its agenda and speaker line-up ahead of the event in-person event at the Midland Hotel in Manchester on Thursday 4th November. The launch of the event follows on from the successful launches of the Online Collections Technology Think Tank and the Online Lending Technology Think Tank…
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New research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has found that a third of low-income households are unable to pay their bills, The research found that 3.8 million low-income households are behind on rent, bills or debt payments, which is up threefold since the pandemic hit, revealing the growing cost of the living crisis facing…
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Latest figures from the Insolvency Service have indicated that person insolvencies increased by 9.2% to 9,954 in September 2021 compared to August’s figure of 9,118, and were 33.2% higher than September 2020’s figure of 7,471. There were 614 bankruptcies were registered, which was 42% lower than September 2020 and 55% lower than September 2019. Numbers…
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Over one-third of care home residents face long term struggle of paying for their care according to new ONS statistics. The research found that in 2019/20 it is estimated 143,774 or 36.7% of people in care homes in England were self-funders. This compares to 248,153 who are state-funded. The South East had the highest proportion…
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A Bank of England (BOE) survey of lenders suggests that more households are expected to have defaulted on mortgages and other loans by the end of November. The Bank’s credit conditions survey asks banks and building societies to detail the climate over the previous quarter and what they expect in the next three months. While…
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The Department for Levelling Up Housing and Communities has released the third wave of the Household Resilience Survey which has indicated that renters’ resilience has been pummelled by the pandemic, and has highlighted the new threat of inflation. The research found that 7% of private renters were behind on the rent in April-May (up from…
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