Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Here is an overview of The Money Charity’s latest statistics for February 2023 Personal debt in the UK People in the UK owed £1,832.8 billion at the end of December 2022. The average total debt per household, including mortgages, was £65,946 and per adult was £34,653, around 105.7% of average earnings. Net mortgage lending rose by…
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New data from Macmillan Cancer Support shows that tens of thousands of people going through or recovering from cancer treatment in the UK (16%) have had to sell personal possessions or borrow money just to make ends meet. The research also found that almost one in three (31%) are struggling to pay their basic living…
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Poorer households are hit harder than wealthy households when it comes to rising energy costs according to new research by Interactive Investor. When factored into the other key areas of household expenditure, including food, housing costs (rent or mortgage) and transport, the research calculated that the poorest 10% of households face spending 26% of their…
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More than half of the UK population are either haggling on their regular bills or intend to do so, according to new research from Go.Compare, as the cost of living crisis continues to impact households. After interviewing more than 2,000 UK adults, the comparison site found that a third (33%) of people have already started…
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New ONS data on debt and wellbeing has found that more than a fifth of adults in the UK (22%, equal to around 11.5 million people) reported borrowing more money or using more credit than the previous year because of the increased cost of living. Nearly a third (31%) said they would be unable to…
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Households with energy prepayment meters in their homes are nearly twice as likely to dip into debt due to the cost of living crisis than others, according to new data. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that 26% of adults who pay for their gas or electricity up front, reported using credit because of…
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Research by StepChange Debt Charity, has revealed that 43% of the UK population, including 48% of Scottish adults, more than 2 million people have found it difficult to keep up with household bills and credit commitments in the last few months. One in ten (10%) say they have found it very difficult. With the rising…
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Households expect to need more than £200 extra per month to cover the increase in bills set to take place in April, according to Comparethemarket.com’s latest Money Action Index. The index tracks the proportion of households who are concerned about the rising cost of living and are taking action to get their finances under control. The latest index…
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Following Energy Security Secretary Grant Shapps’ intervention last week, all energy suppliers have now committed to ending the forced installation of prepayment meters in vulnerable customers’ homes. Concerns were raised about the sharp rise in companies seeking warrants to enter people’s homes to forcibly install prepayment meters, Mr Shapps wrote to energy bosses insisting they…
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Business and Energy Secretary Grant Shapps has given energy bosses a deadline of Tuesday (7th February) to report back to him on what remedial action – such as providing compensation – they plan to take should they have wrongfully installed prepayment meters in the homes of vulnerable customers. The Business Secretary has today told Ofgem…
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Around 2.3 million households missed an essential payment in January, an increase of 400,000 on the month before, but similar to previous years according to new research by Which. The research found that 2.3 million households missed or defaulted on at least one mortgage, rent, loan, credit card or bill in January 2023. This marks…
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The largest rise in the average household water and sewerage bill for almost 20 years could prove a tipping point for the one in five customers already struggling to pay. The Consumer Council for Water (CCW), the independent voice of water consumers, has issued the warning in response to Water UK confirming the average household…
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Motor and home insurance customers are more likely to get the same or better prices at renewal highlighting the strong performance of insurers in delivering good outcomes, a new report from leading insurance market insight business Consumer Intelligence shows. The research of more than 25,000 home insurance and 25,000 motor insurance customers for the report…
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