Market Round Up

04/04/2018

Money Charity Statistics for March were...

  • People in the UK owed £1.576 trillion at the end of Jan 2018. Up 3.6% year on year.

  • Per adult in the UK that’s an average debt of £30,455 (114% of average earnings).

  • Outstanding consumer credit lending was £207.5 billion.

  • Citizens Advice dealt with 577,486 issues in the month, debt was the second largest advice category (behind benefits and tax credits) with 138,725 issues. This is up 3% on the same month last year. Debt issues represented 26% of all problems dealt with over the period.