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Not all consumers are helping themselves with consolidation loans

Recent data has shown that some consumers are making their already worrying financial situation even worse by taking out a consolidation loan to pay off all of their smaller debts, but then failing to close other accounts and re-spending on them, placing them in an even higher level of debt than they were in before consolidating their finances.

This comes to light as the current level of consumer debt is found to have increased by over two hundred percent over the last thirteen years.

The statistics come from consumer debt group Credit Action, and indicates that consumer debt has risen to a massive £1.3 trillion. It seems that even many of those trying to get a grip on their finances by taking out a consolidation loan to wrap up smaller, high interest debts such as credit cards and store cards and then going on to re-use the credit and store cards rather than close the accounts, thus placing themselves in even more debt than they were in originally.

One personal finance director from price comparison site uswitch.com stated: "With Britain's personal debt levels increasing by £1 million every four minutes, it is clear consumers need to take some personal responsibility and carefully manage their own financial situation." Uswitch also added that it seemed that people were no effectively planning their finances, which was resulting in many peoples’ finances spiraling out of control and becoming unmanageable.

The massive levels of consumer debt in the UK have also led to many people turning to bankruptcy and IVAs in order to get themselves out of debt. Banks have reported massive bad debts for 2006, and the number of people going for insolvency has reached record levels at over one hundred thousand people opting for bankruptcy or IVAs in 2006.

Alisdair Milton
31st December 2006

 

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