Young British travellers often find themselves with a debt management headache to deal with when they head back to the UK, it has been suggested. Tom Griffiths, founder of gapyear.com, explains that people taking time out between school and university…
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Increases in the cost of borrowing are starting to have a real impact on the activities of consumers across the UK, recent research has suggested. With millions of British consumers struggling to become debt free, the amounts being lent by…
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Many thousands of British consumers are leaving their debt management troubles behind and jetting off on holiday without having paid for their previous trips, it has emerged. Figures from Alliance & Leicester show that millions of people across the country…
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The Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) has outlined the benefits for indebted Britons of entering an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA). According to the organisation, IVAs often prove more attractive to consumers than outright bankruptcy because they last for a fixed…
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The amounts of money being spent by British women on beauty products are now so high that some could be running the risk of adding to their debt management difficulties, new research has suggested. Figures from Co-operative Insurance (CIS) show…
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Many thousands of mortgage borrowers across the UK are using their credit cards to meet mortgage repayment demands, according to a recent study. The research findings have been published by Shelter and show that over a million Britons have added…
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Millions of UK consumers will switch their credit card provider in an effort to avoid accumulating unnecessarily large amounts of credit card debt, according to a recent study. Research by Abbey discovered that the number of people keen to switch…
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Elderly consumers across the UK have been hit hardest by inflation in recent weeks, according to research from the Alliance Trust. Inflation rates have been increasing more sharply for elderly Britons than for the country as a whole for at…
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