Using a Structured Plan Will Help You Become Debt Free

When you find yourself drowning in debt, you do need to sit down and make a plan for how you can keep your head above water and finally get out of the water completely. More and more UK residents are feeling the pinch of the credit crunch with rising prices that does not leave [...]

How the Credit Crunch is Affecting the Workforce in the UK

Every day the news reports another company that is laying off thousands of workers or one that is shutting its doors permanently. There are very few news reports that do not have some mention of the “global credit crunch” and while we are getting tired of the phrase, it is one that is likely [...]

Dramatic Increase in the Numbers of Calls for Debt Advice

The entire world is in the grips of a recession with businesses scaling back and UK residents, like people everywhere, facing job losses and rising prices. The result is that people who previously were able to meet there monthly commitments without difficulty are now realizing that they are deeply in debt and have nowhere to [...]

Further advice to help you weather the recession

Over the past year the nation has been thrown into turmoil financially, and with the recession now taking a hold on the back of the global credit crunch that has caused so much chaos over the past year. With many well known companies going bust, people losing their jobs all over the place, banks running [...]

Take stock of your debt and get the right advice

With the New Year coming around many people are getting their New Year’s resolutions sorted out, and for many one of the major priorities will be to sort out their finances. This year has been a particularly difficult one for most households, with factors such as the global credit crunch, the recession, soaring inflation, and [...]

Making changes to cope with the recession

Anyone that clearly remembers the last recession in the late 1980s and early 1990s will know that a time of recession can be a time of real hardship, and many people are unprepared when difficult times such as these come around.
The nation is now really suffering as a result of the recession, and many people [...]

Don’t Get Trapped By Debt

Experts will tell you that with good financial planning and by sticking to a monthly budget, you can avoid getting caught in a debt trap. While this is excellent advice, it is easier said than done. Having a good income leads to believing that you will always have money available to meet your monthly commitments [...]

Don’t lose your home over debts on your credit card

As anyone with credit card debt will know, having high interest debts such as this can be very difficult to deal with, and can really eat into your income. The situation is not helped by the fact that many costs have rocketed of late, such as energy usage costs, food prices, borrowing costs and more.
The [...]

Cutting back on the cost of Christmas purchases

As most of us are only too aware the costs associated with the festive season can really add up, and at a time when most families have faced a particularly tough year in terms of their finances the last thing that most want to do is spend what little money they do have all in [...]

Prepare For Christmas Financially

Christmas is a festive time of the year with families and friends getting together for parties and gift –giving. With buying the gifts, decorations and extra food, people often put themselves in debt that they have to start paying back once the statements arrive in the mail in January.
In addition to preparing for all the [...]

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