Divorce lawyer Vanessa Lloyd-Platt suggest that while there is little to be gained from a joint loan arrangement, one or other marriage partner might well end up facing the prospect of paying back the entire debt on their own. In…
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Described as the most wide-ranging study of its kind, the OFT will pay particular attention to the charging of consumers who have items returned or who enter an overdraft without authorisation to do so. With these charges impacting thousands of…
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Billy is keeping his debt management difficulties a secret from his on-screen wife Honey and hiding final bill demands as his financial problems spiral out of control, which is all very familiar behaviour to Debtmatters’ expert Michael Shirley. Mr Shirely…
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With millions of Brits already facing debt management difficulties, the amount of money consumers need to borrow to buy a home increased by a further 0.9 per cent during April, recent figures demonstrate. And this increase equates to an average…
Researchers at Ohio State University studied the IQs and financial situations of around 7,500 people in 2004, and found “no relationship” between being smart and being wealthy. Indeed, among the thousands interviewed as part of the study, six per cent…
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W3 Debt Solutions recorded an increase of 183 per cent in the number of people in this particular age bracket opting for IVAs during the half-year until the end of February 2007, reports Lancashire Evening Post. Debts totaling thousands of…
With bank charges stretching further the finances of those facing debt management difficulties, the past three months have seen current accounts become a “new switching battle ground”, according to MoneyExpert. Figures from the price comparison service show a current account…
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It is widely expected that the Bank of England will increase the cost of borrowing in an effort to limit inflation and millions of credit consumers around the country look set to find it more difficult to find a debt…
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