'There are more credit cards in the UK than people'
Consumers will borrow an additional £320m today
The average household debt will increase by over £13 today
330 people today will be declared insolvent or bankrupt
2,750 County Court Judgements (CCJs) issued
Bank and building societies will hand out £1bn in mortgages today
Citizen Advice Bureaus will deal with 5,300 debt problems today
The average car will cost £15 to run today
More than 7,716 loan repayments are going unpaid every day
The average home will cost £30 today to run
Raising a child to the age of 21 will now set you back £23.50 daily
The price of a typical house will increase by £45 today
£500m will be withdrawn from cash machines today by 7.5m people across the UK
24.5m transactions worth £1.4bn will be spent on plastic cards today
1/3rd of all groceries we buy today will end up in the dustbin
- posted by Mark @ 1:20 pm