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Borrowing & debt

May 2024

  • Red and blue cars parked in a row

    ‘Fleecing the man off the street’: Car dealers investigated over high interest rates

  • A man in checked shirt looking at plans on a table next to a laptop computer and hard hat. He is in a modern-looking white room with large windows and glass door opening on to a garden

    Nationwide doubles maximum personal loan to £50k amid rising building costs

  • Silhouette of person pushing another person in a wheelchair against a blue sky with clouds

    Carer's allowance crisis
    MPs call for issues leaving carers with huge debts to be fixed ‘without delay’

  • image of money ring marble background

    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 building society on a high street with pedestrians walking past

    Nationwide stops lending on some flood-risk properties

  • A man looks at his iPhone which displays the Barclaycard logo

    Barclaycard change could mean much higher interest for some customers

  • Andy Beckett

    The cost of living crisis has made the UK a poorer, more anxious nation – and worse is yet to come

    Andy Beckett
  • Posed picture, dramatically lit, of a man in a dark suit knocking on a door

    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

  • A woman on a laptop holding a credit card

    ‘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
  • a debt collection letter next to a pair of glasses and a calculator

    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

  • Mansfield advice hub

    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

  • A young woman sits at her kitchen table at home checking over the household bills

    Debt ‘breathing space’ requests rose 25% last year in England and Wales

  • a man negotiates a treadmill of various purchases such as clothes shopping, bank cards, loans. Illustration: Jamie Wignall

    Money hacks
    Pick the right card, and mix and match: how to get the best out of cashback deals

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