With close to £52bn* set to be spent before Christmas, Chiltern Debt Management is warning British shoppers not to binge spend now and face dire financial health issues in 2007. Festive Folly According to research carried out by the company, the number of people seeking help with their debts plummets towards the end of November [...]
November, 2006
Check your credit file for free with Chiltern
Debt management specialist, Chiltern, has launched a free online credit report service in order to give people worried about debt the chance to review their credit history without having to spend more money to do so. “Credit reports can be a vital source of information for anyone with debt worries,” says Chiltern’s general manager, Jackie [...]
Christmas spending to top £50bn
Christmas spending is set to rise to more than £50bn in December according to the latest figures from APACs which monitors UK spending habits. Its figures show that overall UK spending on cards, cash and cheques in December will reach £51.6bn, an increase of 6.6 per cent over the same period last year which shows [...]
Citizens Advice Bureau helps 1.4m with debts
The number of people in the UK seeking help with debt problems has jumped by 11 per cent to 1.4m according to the latest figures from the Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB). Its figures show that over the last year debt problems have become the biggest area it now deals with. One in five people who [...]