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01/09/2010
A new survey from Callcredit Information Group shows that 70% of people who have suffered financial pressures in the past two years have never spoken to their bank or building society about their d...
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31/08/2010
Research by Borro.com, the UK's first online pawnbroker, has shown that that over 30% of their customers have taken out a loan since the beginning of June to raise funds for their holiday, with the...
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24/08/2010
The latest half year statistics from the Registry Trust Limited have revealed the number of County Court Judgments (CCJs) in England and Wales are down 23.4% on this time last year. CCJ’s are...
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23/08/2010
Three in 10 UK households reported a drop in their household finances in August, says the Markit/YouGov Household Finance Index.
The drop reflects a decline in income from employment and a r...
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19/08/2010
New research from Consumer Focus shows that the number of people taking out payday loans has quadrupled since 2006 to 1.2 million people, borrowing a combined 1.2 billion per year.
In its st...
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18/08/2010
The Government has signaled its intention to cut up to £13bn a year from the welfare benefits budget by axing so called universal benefits such as child benefit and the winter fuel allowances...
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17/08/2010
47% of possessions by landlords are due to tenants not paying their rent, according to research published by the National Landlords Association (NLA). New data published this week showed that showi...
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16/08/2010
As many as nine million pensioners in the UK are sick with money worries with more than two in five suffering anxiety and one in five living in a state of depression as a direct result of their fin...
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11/08/2010
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced that HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) will use debt collectors to recover un-paid taxes worth £140 million throughout 2010-...
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09/08/2010
Sarah Fergusson, better known as Fergie, the Duchess of York, has debts of almost £5 million according to recent press reports. Her financial plight is apparently causing alarm in the Royal f...
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05/08/2010
The base rate remains at its historical low of 0.5% yesterday morning’s meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).
The MPC first dropped the rate to 0...
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03/08/2010
Recent Ofgem statistics on gas and electricity debt and disconnectionsare the tip of an iceberg and highlight worries about the affordability of energy say Uswitch. Key findings fron fuel regulator...
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04/08/2010
The Halifax have published their monthly review view of the housing market and report that house prices rose by 0.6% in July.
Bank of England industry-wide figures show that the number of mo...
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02/08/2010
New statistics published by R3, the insolvency trade body, show that over 2.3 million holidaymakers have had to borrow on average more than £1000 (£1,130) and will spend seven months pa...
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30/07/2010
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has set out plans to revolutionise the existing benefits system within a new Command Paper, 21st Century Welfare, publised for consultation today. The ...
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28/07/2010
The number of British women going bankrupt has risen almost fivefold in the past 10 years, with new figures revealing a 28 per cent increase in the past year alone. New figures from the Insolvency ...
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22/07/2010
A mortgage firm has been fined £630,000 for unfair treatment of its customers by the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Yorkshire based Redstone Mortgages Limited has agreed to redre...
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26/07/2010
The Government will continue its Mortgage Rescue Scheme to stave off rising repossession numbers, but has announced plans to cut its funding as it searches for ways to ensure it delivers better val...
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17/06/2010
The OFT has this week published the final report of its review of the £7.5 billion high-cost credit sector.
The sector comprises the pawnbroking, payday loan, home credit and rent-to-...
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15/06/2010
Ahead of next weeks emergency budget Consumer confidence in the economy has dropped dramatically according to price comparison and switching site uSwitch.com, with 45% of people concerned about the...
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11/06/2010
Almost a million adults do not have a bank account, according to the watchdog, Consumer Focus.
It has issued a major report, On the Margins, looking at why so many people exist solely in th...
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03/06/2010
A new report by BDRC Continental has found that rent arrears have doubled in the past two years, with more than a third of landlords reporting that tenants have fallen behind with payments.
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02/06/2010
Over 25,000 teenagers have registered to study GCSE, AS or A level equivalent qualifications in personal finance.
The IFS School of Finance said it was the highest number of students to hav...
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27/05/2010
Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) has topped the list of complaints to the financial ombudsman service, with 30% of new cases during 2009-10 relating to it.
In total, the ombudsman resolve...
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25/05/2010
New Bank of England figures published last week show that up to 1.5 million mortgage borrowers had less than 10% equity in their home as of March 2010.Data from 11 banking groups, accounting for ar...
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24/05/2010
The OFT is taking part in a campaign to warn people of the dangers of loan sharks that charge exorbitant interest and use violence and threats to enforce debts.
As part of the 'Stop...
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21/05/2010
Debt solutions experts Baines and Ernst have welcomed yesterdays announcement that the Coalition Government plans to ban order for sale where the debts are for sums of less than £25,000.
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20/05/2010
The coalition government has published its first policy document and has announced that they intend to pass new legislation which provides people with more protection against aggressive bailiffs. T...
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19/05/2010
The Financial Ombudsman Service, the independent organisation that settles disputes between consumers and financial companies , has today published its annual review covering the 2009/10 financial ...
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18/05/2010
The annual rate of UK inflation, the Consumer Prices Index, rose to 3.7% in April from 3.4% in March despite a government target of 2%.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research notes t...
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17/05/2010
Shelter and the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) have urged the new Government to take immediate action to help thousands of people at risk of losing their homes.
In a joint letter to the n...
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14/05/2010
Almost 1,500 professionals from across the credit industry took their seats in the Great Hall at the Grosvenor House hotel, London, where individuals, teams and companies took home awards for outst...
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13/05/2010
The Council of Mortgage Lenders has released mortgage arrears and repossession figures for the first quarter of 2010.The figures show that just under 253,000 mortgages were 3 months or more in arre...
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11/05/2010
According to figures released by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), banks and insurers paid out almost £284m in compensation to customers whose complaints were upheld in the second half ...
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10/05/2010
The number of unemployed in the UK rose by 53,000 to 2.51 million during the last three months to March, figures from the Office of National Statistics show, the highest level since December 1994.<...
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11/05/2010
UK consumers need to be made aware of the implications of borrowing money, it has been stated.
The consequences of borrowing money need to made known to UK consumers, according to one exper...
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07/05/2010
Figures released by the Insolvency Service today show that in the first quarter of 2010 there were 35,682 individual insolvencies in England. This was an increase of 17.9% on the same period a year...
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05/05/2010
Figures released yesterday show that total UK personal debt at the end of March 2010 stood at £1,460bn. Total secured lending on dwellings at the end of March 2010 stood at £1,239bn. Th...
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04/05/2010
Latest figures suggested that despite the recession being officially over, households are struggling to make ends meet.
Experts warned the so-called debt lag – where the...
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01/05/2010
UK 'hidden' debt stands at an estimated £55bn as one in five consumers hide financial problems from a partner or family
Following the news that a significant amount of people i...
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30/04/2010
City centres are suffering from the highest numbers of repossessions in the UK, London leading the way according to the latest report from Spicerhaart Corporate Sales.
London had the most r...
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29/04/2010
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is taking tough action after finding weaknesses in five banks handling of customer complaints.
As a result of the review, five banks are undertaking ma...
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28/04/2010
A recent research report has shown that personal debt has a direct impact on staff sickness. The report by Katherine Ashby and Michelle Mahdon of The Work Foundation, was commissioned by Axa PPP he...
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27/04/2010
50% of over-65s owes money on mortgages, loans, cards and overdrafts, according to Key Retirement Solutions.
According to Key, the average pensioner taking out an equity rele...
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23/04/2010
The number of people unemployed in the UK has gone up by 43,000 between December and February to reach 2.5 million, data from the Office for National Statistics reveals.
The ONS says this is...
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26/04/2010
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has welcomed an interim Enforcement Order obtained by Birmingham Trading Standards against 'debt sale' company Momentum Network Ltd.
The Order, grant...
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22/04/2010
A survey of nearly 2300 people by OnePoll for the Post Office shows that nearly third of people (31%) hide the true extent of debt from family members,.
One in six women (16%) and more than...
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21/04/2010
Children should be educated in finance to break the bad debt management habits of the UK's consumers, claims a money expert.
Parenting site Mumsnet.com and Martin Lewis from Moneysavingexpe...
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20/04/2010
The management of the government’s strategy for providing free advice and support to people in debt has been branded a ‘complete failure’ by the Public Accounts Committee. The com...
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10/05/2010
Consumers concerned about issues such as tax arrears might benefit from the publication of a new handbook.
A new tax handbook is being made available by a consumer group, in order to help p...
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31/03/2010
Figures published this week by Credit Action show that total UK personal debt at the end of February 2010 stood at £1,464bn. The twelve-month growth was 0.9%. Individuals now owe more than wh...
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30/03/2010
The new rules for unsecured credit agreements include:
• a 14-day window for consumers to cancel credit agreements without penalty;
• lenders will have to assess consumers ...
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29/03/2010
There has been some criticism of the Governments intention to extend the state support given to unemployed homeowners. Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money will be used to overpay mortgages...
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26/03/2010
Council taxes will rise in the next financial year by 1.8%, the lowest figure since the levy was introduced nearly two decades ago. John Denham, communities secretary, claimed that the slightly bel...
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24/03/2010
The Government announced today that it intends to transfer the regulation of second charge mortgage lending to the FSA, including the regulation of existing second charge loans. This will create a ...
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23/03/2010
The man, who cannot be named, had got into so much debt that he decided to switch identities completely.
Actress Sarah Thom revealed that she found out about the man after speaking to worke...
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22/03/2010
Chris Elliot, Chief Executive of Warwick District Council has warned that low income households are at greatest risk of falling into unmanageable debt once their rent arrears cross the £500 t...
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19/03/2010
A committee of MP’s has found that the Department of Work and Pensions is owed £1.85bn by people who have been paid too much state benefit.
The Chairman of the Committee, Edward...
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18/03/2010
Financial Services Authority (FSA) figures show 54,055 people had their properties repossessed during 2009, up from 46,945 in 2008. But there was a fall in both the number of repossessions and the ...
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17/03/2010
Over 5m households owe money on their water bills.
OFWAT the water industry regulator has announced that more than five million households currently owe money on their water bills an...
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16/03/2010
In a press release issued today the Office of fair Trading reported that “Real progress is being made towards personal current accounts that work well for consumers, with significant developm...
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15/03/2010
The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced 5 new consumer protection measures for people who have credit cards
The five new rights for credit card users ag...
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12/03/2010
Figures released today by the insolvency trade body R3 show that 31% of personal insolvencies that occur in March have been triggered by overspending during the festive season.
Expe...
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11/03/2010
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today warned that any increase in unemployment, a rise in interest rates or further falls in house prices could force millions of overstretched middle cla...
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10/03/2010
“Save up to go bust? With the Insolvency Service raising bankruptcy costs by £90 the price of going bust has never been so high, standing at £600 all in, including court fees. How...
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09/03/2010
In February the Homeowner and Debtor Protection (Scotland) Bill was passed by the Scottish Parliament. The Bill requires that all repossession cases except those were the property has been ...
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08/03/2010
Two new reports by the low earners think tank, The Resolution Foundation, show that low earners1 have struggled more in the recession because of their exposed and overlooked position compared to bo...
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05/03/2010
The singl parents pressure group Gingerbread has produced a comprehensive analysis of single parents’ financial capability, the key financial products they have, and their attitudes to managi...
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04/03/2010
According to Post Office Mortgages at least three million UK borrowers (28 per cent) do not know the rate of interest at which they are currently repaying their mortgage.
Over a thir...
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02/03/2010
New monthly figures from Credit Action show that UK personal debt at the end of January 2010 stood at £1,463bn, a 0.8% growth over the last 12 months.
Total lending in January 2010 ros...
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01/03/2010
New research from moneysupermarket.com shows that five million people are always overdrawn, a reduction from 17% of UK adults from 2008 to 10% in 2009.
Kevin Mountford, head of banking at mo...
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24/02/2010
Baines and Ernst have welcomed the Governments plans to make it easier for people in financial difficulty write off their debts in Debt Rel...
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25/02/2010
Ministers are to crack down on excessive housing benefit payments in a series of reforms designed to curb the increasing £17 billion annual rental bill. Yvette Cooper, the work and pensions s...
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23/02/2010
A bankrupt former prison officer from Leeds has been given a nine month suspended prison sentence for failing to tell the Official Receiver about his debts and land he owned, following a prosecutio...
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22/02/2010
The BBC reports today that Ros Altmann, a former government advisor has called for an investigation into the profit margins of credit card companies.
Ms Altmann says credit card rat...
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19/02/2010
IVA Solution experts Blair Endersby are emphasizing the role debt management can play in the lives of people with money worries.
Recently released figures have revealed that last year more ...
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17/02/2010
Following the news that record numbers of people are being declared insolvent in the UK, Baines & Ernst are today advising people to seek help with managing their debts.
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18/02/2010
New figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) show that mortgage lending dropped 32% in January to its lowest monthly total since February 2000
Experts say the drop...
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16/02/2010
Today’s “Times” reports new research which shows that millions of credit card holders are being charged the highest interest rates in more than a decade despite interest rates bei...
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12/02/2010
The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) has expressed concern about Thurrock Council charging an illegal £400 fee for administering a council tax payment plan it had agreed as an alternative to ...
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11/02/2010
Mortgage lenders took 10,200 properties into possession in the fourth quarter of 2009, 13% lower than in the third quarter, and 2% down on the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Council of Mo...
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10/02/2010
The “Daily Mail” has published an article this week that claims that State-backed banks are charging more for short-term borrowing than back-street lenders and payday loan companie with...
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09/02/2010
A recently published mortgage repossessions report reveals that 67% of mortgage lenders and repossession experts are predicting an increase in the number of repossessions in 2010. The Council of Mo...
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08/02/2010
Source: “ The Observer” 7th Feb 2010.
Borrowers in severe debt difficulties are being charged thousands of pounds in interest by a company that has bought their loans.
Nor...
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05/02/2010
Rising demand from people in debt for free face-to-face advice from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skill’s (BIS) is now oustripping capacity, according to a report published this...
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04/02/2010
A record 35,574 people in England and Wales were declared insolvent in the last quarter of 2009, according to statistics published by the Insolvency Service on Friday.
The figure, a 24.9% r...
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03/02/2010
High unemployment and rising interest rates are expected to drive a 30 per cent rise in the number of people seeking debt management plans in 2010, according to moneysupermarket.com.
But th...
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02/02/2010
Credit Action have today published new figures regarding personal debt levels in the UK. the figures show that at the end of December last year the amount stood at £1.46 billion.
Stat...
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01/02/2010
New unsecured borrowing by UK consumers on credit cards, loans and overdrafts has exceeded the amount being paid back for the first time since June 2009.
Unsecured consumer credit ro...
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29/01/2010
The Financial Services Authority has said today that in future banks and other financial services providers will have to publish details about the amount and type of customer complaints. Sh...
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27/01/2010
The OFT has today published draft guidance for consumers and industry on the application of sections of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (the CCA) that allow consumers to request information about thei...
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26/01/2010
The Financial Services Authority has suggested new rules to protect mortgage borrowers who get into arrears. The FSA says it wants to ensure that those borrowers are treated fairly, especially ones...
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22/01/2010
According to figures published this week by the UK Cards Association 48% of applications were turned down in 2009, compared with 42% in 2008. It is the first time official figures have been release...
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25/01/2010
On 24th Jan, “The Sunday Times” published an article which claimed that over 400,000 mortgage borrowers exposed to unfair arrears charging by mortgage lenders and more than 80,000 homeo...
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21/01/2010
Debt solutions experts Baines and Ernst have branded Skipton Building Societies announcement rise in its interest rate as “disastrous news for borrowers in financial difficulty.”
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20/01/2010
Today’s announcement that there has been a sizeable drop in unemployment has been welcomes as good news for people with debt problems by debt solutions experts Baines and Ernst. Unemployment ...
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19/01/2010
New research released by the housing charity Shelter shows that people are being forced to delay having children because of the lack of affordable housing.
The research reveals...
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18/01/2010
New research from Scottish Widows has shown that 4m of the 6.6 million UK households with dependent children are reliant on two or more salaries.
Families with children also have hi...
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15/01/2010
A new report, commissioned by Circle Anglia, a provider of affordable housing claims that
over 100,000 of the UK’s poorest families will spend 2010 saddled with a combined debt of aro...
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14/01/2010
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is expecting at least 200,000 claims in 2010 as it anticipates a record year for financial complaints.
The FOS was set up 10 years ago to deal ...
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12/01/2010
Googles chief executive Eric Schmidt, has stated that western governments that reducing their deficiets will be much harder than it will in america, solely due to the status of the dollar in the wo...
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12/01/2010
The Housing Charity Shelter published a survey yesterday that claimed that more than 1 million householders have used credit cards to pay their mortgage or rent in the last 12 months.
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11/01/2010
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills is currently consulting on proposals for reform to Credit and Storecard legislation including proposals for improved card borrowing, outlawing uns...
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08/01/2010
Nicola Tappenden, the WAG of footballer Simon Walton, agreed to take part in celebrity Big Brother in order to clear a £35,000 credit card debt which she racked up after a series of spending ...
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07/01/2010
The Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee has kept interest rates at 0.5% it was announced today. The 0.5% rate has now been in place since March 2009 and according to many experts may not rise...
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06/01/2010
Credit Action has reported that total UK personal debt at the end of November 2009 stood at £1,459 billion. The 12-month growth was 0.7%.
Total lending in November 2009 rose by...
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05/01/2010
The number of families having to leave their home has been understated according to the Conservatives, because the official figures exclude "sale and rentbacks", which allows mortgage bor...
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04/01/2010
Ed Balls, the children, schools and families secretary, has announced that schools will be required to teach children how to spend with restraint, borrow within sensible limits and save wisely. Mr ...
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15/12/2009
Figures published today by the Financial Services Authority show that the number of mortgage borrowers behind with their mortgage payments increased by 16% in the third quarter of 2009. An average ...
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14/12/2009
Figures published today in the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin showed that the current recession has had a massive impact on household income during 2009.
The Banks figures show ...
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09/12/2009
A summary of new research published yesterday by the Office of Fair Trading, (OFT), showed that significant numbers of consumers are fairly or very dependent on high-cost credit.
The OFT is...
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07/12/2009
A new report by Price waterhouse Coopers (PwC) says the typical British family faces a decline of 2.4 per cent, or £300 a year, in its discretionary spending power, after tax, mortgages, food...
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01/12/2009
According to new figures from the bank of England published this week, UK citizens reduced their unsecured debt for a fourth consecutive month in October.
Consumer debt was repaid at the fa...
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26/11/2009
The Treasury announced yesterday a raft of new measures designed to give greater protection to mortgage borrowers.
Under the proposals borrowers whose mortgages are sold onto third parties ...
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24/11/2009
The Office of Fair Trading has said it “disappointed” by today's Supreme Court judgment, which overturns previous High Court and Court of Appeal rulings that unarranged o...
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19/11/2009
The Supreme Court has announced that on Wednesday 25 November 2009 judgment will be given in the bank charges test case of Office of Fair Trading (Respondents) v Abbey National plc and others (Appe...
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18/11/2009
Banks are unhappy with suggestions they should pay additional levies to fund financial education in the UK.
A nationwide financial education scheme, announced today as part of the Queen's S...
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17/11/2009
The Council of Mortgage Lenders has cut its forecast for the number of repossessions this year to 48,000. Having anticipated 75,000 repossessions in 2009 in last year's housing market forec...
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16/11/2009
The Finance & Leasing Association gave a cautious welcome to its figures published today that show a fall in repossessions by second charge mortgage providers.
In the third quarter of 2...
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13/11/2009
The banks have learned nothing from the credit crisis and are setting unachievable sales targets, forcing staff to sell products to people who don't need then and cannot afford them, says trade uni...
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12/11/2009
Research by the thinktank Resolution Foundation shows low-income households – with an average of £15,800 at their disposal – are walking an increasingly precarious financial tight...
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11/11/2009
Bad credit card debts may reach as much as 9% of all outstanding balances by the end of next year, an accountancy firm has said.
"Bad debts in the sector have reached historic ...
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10/11/2009
The government is expected to announce modest rent reductions for around two million housing association tenants, despite a survey of tenants showing that most are against a rent cut.
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09/11/2009
Millions of homeowners have put their moving plans on hold due to restraints on their finances, according to the latest research from advice website Unbiased.
Unbiased has estimated...
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07/11/2009
RBS reduced lending by £5.3bn to £588bn during the third quarter, but recorded an operating profit of £1.2bn for its core banking activities, but an impaired loss of &poun...
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06/11/2009
According to many commentators, personal insolvency in the UK is likely to reach record levels by the end of 2009. The combination of growing unemployment and massive levels of personal debt will l...
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05/11/2009
The government’s plan to pump a further £25.5 billion of taxpayers’ money into Royal Bank of Scotland means the cost of the banking bailout has reached £4,350 for every fami...
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04/11/2009
Dannii Minogue recently revealed that she bared all for Playboy in order to pay off debts.
Having gotten herself into £150,000 worth of debt, the Australian beauty decided to pose for...
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03/11/2009
Consumer confidence has risen to its highest level for 18 months but major job fears remain, according to the latest Consumer Confidence Index released by Nielsen and the British Retail Consortium ...
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02/11/2009
The Lending Code, launched yesterday and overseen by the newly-formed LSB, covers good practice in relation to unsecured loans, lending aspects of credit cards and charge cards and current account ...
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30/10/2009
GMAC-RFC has become the first mortgage lender to be fined by the Financial Services Authority for levying unfair charges on borrowers in arrears.
The specialist lender, which focuse...
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29/10/2009
At least 20 million people are over-indebted in the EU. "With the increasing unemployment rates the number of people with debt problems can be expected to grow substantially over the n...
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28/10/2009
The current number of bankruptcies stands at 107,000 but is expected to a record annual level of 130,000 by the end of the year, according to some personal insolvency experts.
Mark Sands, a...
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27/10/2009
The Government has today announced new proposals to ensure that credit and store card companies give people a fairer deal, in the latest of a series of reforms designed to make financial services w...
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26/10/2009
The government is set to take on credit card and store cards this week, with proposing promising a fairer deal for consumers.
Gordon Brown this weekend hit out at credit card firms that are...
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23/10/2009
The number of bankruptcies in Scotland skyrocketed 140 per cent in 2008-2009 compared to 2007-2008, official figures from the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB) reveal.
Last weeks annual report...
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22/10/2009
The number of households in fuel poverty, where at least 10 per cent of income is spent on gas and electricity, rose by 15 per cent to four million in 2007, statistics from the Department for Energ...
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21/10/2009
Mr Barnes was declared bankrupt by an insolvency court in Liverpool last week.
Last year he is reported to have said he "didn’t have any money to invest" after it was sugges...
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20/10/2009
The Government and the Financial Inclusion Taskforce have announced today that the shared goal to halve the number of adults living in households without access to a bank account has been achieved....
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19/10/2009
The Financial Services Authority is to ban self-cert mortgages and introduce affordability test for all new lending
The reforms include plans to widen the regulator's scope to includ...
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16/10/2009
According to report in “The Sun” Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, has scrapped a lavish 50th birthday party amid fears she is going bankrupt.
"Everyone ...
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15/10/2009
A recent landmark High Court ruling has effectively scuppered the ability of indebted people to escape paying back their loans without serious consequences.
The ruling means that if...
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13/10/2009
House prices are showing their strongest rise for more than two years as a lack of supply continues to drive the market, according to a survey today.
The Royal Institution of Charte...
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12/10/2009
The City watchdog is set to impose an outright ban on the self-certification mortgages many blame for driving the house price bubble and ultimately the credit crisis.
The Financial Services Aut...
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09/10/2009
Lower income households are having to pay a surprisingly high proportion of their income just to keep their cars on the road, a new study has found.
Meanwhile the number of poorer home...
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08/10/2009
New research published today states that one in two British adults in debt may also have a mental health problem.
A literature review which has been endorsed by Stephen Fry and Alastair Cam...
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07/10/2009
The OFT today announced that banks have agreed to make personal current account costs more transparent and the switching process more reliable and trusted.
This announcement follows the OFT's ...
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06/10/2009
The Local Government Ombudsman has condemned two councils for several "failings" in their use of bankruptcy to recover council tax debt.
The LGO criticised Newham Council for maki...
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05/10/2009
House prices rose by 0.9% in September, the fifth consecutive monthly increase, according to the latest Nationwide house price index.
The monthly index shows the annual house price c...
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02/10/2009
Over 200,000 UK businesses are in arrears when it comes to paying their taxes to HM Revenues & Customs, according to MCR Tax Arrears Solutions.
According to the service, there a...
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01/10/2009
Money worries topped a list of Britons' biggest concerns in 2009, a study suggests.More than a third (36%) of respondents say they wished they had been more responsible with money as the gloomy eco...
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30/09/2009
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29/09/2009
The introduction of regulation to the sale and-rent back sector could result in more people losing their homes.
While there are no definitive numbers available, industry figures suggest tha...
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28/09/2009
Hundreds of Germans and Austrians are coming to Britain to exploit bankruptcy laws which promise to clear debts in a year, a money education charity has claimed.
The charity said insolvent ...
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25/09/2009
Banks across Europe are violating basic consumer principles by providing ‘incomprehensible’ information and having complex pricing structures according to a scathing report.
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25/09/2009
Banks across Europe are violating basic consumer principles by providing ‘incomprehensible’ information and having complex pricing structures according to a scathing report.
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15/04/2009
Paymex Group, one of the largest financial solutions providers in the UK, has announced a partnership with Secure Trust Bank, to launch the UK’s first current account with a prepaid card facilit...
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