Market Round Up

19/02/2018

Money Charity Statistics for January were...

  • People in the UK owed £1.566 trillion at the end of November 2017. Up 3.6% year on year.

  • Per adult in the UK that’s an average debt of £30,253 (114% of average earnings).

  • Outstanding consumer credit lending was £205.8 billion.

  • Citizens Advice dealt with 523,247 issues in the month, debt was the second largest advice category (behind benefits and tax credits) with 141,467 issues. This is up 3% on the same month last year. Debt issues represented 27% of all problems dealt with over the period.