A company offering advice and services to those in financial hardship has been wound-up by the High Court in Liverpool following an investigation by the Companies Investigation Branch (CIB) of the Insolvency Service. Abacrombie & Co Limited, based in Sheffield and operating throughout England & Wales commenced trading in 2003 purportedly carrying on business as [...]

Eunoia is the shortest English word containing all five main vowels. It comes from the Greek word euvoia, which means well mind. It could also mean “beautiful thinking”.
 
What has this got to do with debts and debt relief? Well I think that we all need some beautiful thinking, or positive movement of mind to try [...]

I was trawling through the web recently and came across the following on www.yourmortgage.co.uk:
Consumers searching the Internet for debt advice owe an average of £20,000, according to recent research.
Figures from LeadPoint, a firm that provides mortgage brokers and financial advisers with details of consumers looking for financial advice, show that the average amount of debt [...]

Now before we go much further this is not a guarantee, but we have found that there is a solution that puts the Debt collection agency on the back foot, when they send a stat. demand to you through the post.
Peoples first reaction when they get the demand is to panic. They see the words [...]

A report has suggested that almost a quarter of the population will be pushed into fuel poverty by the end of next year.
The number of families in fuel poverty - defined as when more than 10% of household income is spent on fuel bills - has increased by 100% since 2005.
Around 5.7 million people will [...]

There were 24,553 individual insolvencies in England and Wales in the second quarter of 2008 on a seasonally adjusted basis. This was a decrease of 2.0% on the previous quarter and a decrease of 8.3% on the same period a year ago. 
This was made up of 15,297 bankruptcies, a decrease of 1.3% on the previous [...]

Further evidence of the squeeze in consumer spending can be seen in the latest figures releases from the Charity Shops Survey 2008. As High Street retailers chase shoppers charity shops are booming.
Recent figures from the British Retail Consortium show that retail sales values were down almost 1% from July 2008. Whilst in total retail [...]

The latest survey from the Nationwide on UK house prices has seen an annual double-digit fall for the first time since 1990.
Prices were 10.5% lower in August than they were a year ago. Prices fell by 1.9% compared with July. The average home now costs £164,654, which is more than £19,000 cheaper than the average [...]

The phone is ringing off the hook. Loads of people with debt problems, very few of them with any genuine disposible income. We are not reliant on IVA’s for our income as it happens, if we have a client with a desire and the ability to maintain an IVA, then we have a preferred partner [...]

It was always coming but now we have the data which confirms once and for all that economic growth in the UK has ground to a halt between April and June.
The Office for National Statistics has reported that economic growth was non-existent in this latest quarter. This puts the MPC in a real dilemma as [...]