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Borrowing & debt
June 2024
Council tax: final-year students warned they could get surprise bills
Students are exempt during their course but as soon as they finish their final year they are liable to pay
May 2024
‘Fleecing the man off the street’: Car dealers investigated over high interest rates
Nationwide doubles maximum personal loan to £50k amid rising building costs
Carer's allowance crisis
MPs call for issues leaving carers with huge debts to be fixed ‘without delay’
Speak now: the truth about weddings
‘I wanted to look and feel expensive’: four couples on why they took on wedding debt
April 2024
Nationwide stops lending on some flood-risk properties
Barclaycard change could mean much higher interest for some customers
The cost of living crisis has made the UK a poorer, more anxious nation – and worse is yet to come
Andy Beckett
Unregulated ‘identity tracers’ harass people for debts they do not owe
Alarm at growing number of working people in UK ‘struggling to make ends meet’
Paying bills a struggle for 7.4 million UK consumers, regulator finds
Fears of spiralling debt as ‘buy now pay later’ credit quadruples in UK
Number of households seeking help over energy debt legal action doubles
March 2024
‘I owe £25,000 on three credit cards’: the Britons drowning in debt
With record numbers in financial difficulty, we hear from people who explain how they’ve landed in the red
UK watchdogs say they will take action against ‘threatening’ debt collectors
Joint letter from regulators targets finance and utility sectors for volume and tone of correspondence to vulnerable customers
Record 6.7m people in Britain are in financial difficulty, warns debt charity
Car finance mis-selling is not the next PPI scandal, says UK watchdog
Hidden gems from the world of research
Consumer debt in the UK is down 10%. The bad news? Utility bill arrears are up
Torsten Bell
February 2024
Councils in crisis
When a Citizens Advice has to close despite demand being ‘off the scale’
In Mansfield, the council could not afford the funding needed by a service that is vital to one of the UK’s most deprived areas
January 2024
Debt ‘breathing space’ requests rose 25% last year in England and Wales
Number increased to 88,390 under scheme brought in during pandemic to help people struggling with bills
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