Personal Debt

52 trillion pounds due in January 2017 and means that on aggregate every individual in the nation will owe an extra 1,077.51 pounds. Numbers show that UK household debt averaged £57,943 in January compared with £57,820 in December.

That means that the UK's current median population is £30,455 (including mortgages), which is 114% of the UK's standard yearly income. Of course, the amount of debt accrued by UK Residents means that a large proportion of the interest is payable. On the basis of the January numbers, the amount of interest payments on debt in the previous 12 months was an amount that soaked 50.8 billion pounds or 139 million pounds a head per year.

Indebtedness is projected to increase further over the next few years, with the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasting in its March 2018 guidance that overall budget debt will rise to 2.296 trillion in the first three months of 2022. That would fall to 84,412 per budget, although this is assuming that the number of UK budgets will not vary.

One of the reasons for the rise in overall debt is the sustained expansion of private consumption loans. By the end of January this year overall loans had totalled 207.5bn, an rise of £194.3bn on the same date last year. Rise per capita averages £255.28.

January figures show that your UK budget currently has 7,629 of debt, a slight increase on the 7,615 pounds in the preceding months. Divided by persons, this means that each UK inhabitant has an annual debt of £4,009. By the end of January, the specific overall debt of £70.35 billion for debit card payments was equivalent to 2,586 per pound per budget.

It would take 26 years and 4 months for you to disburse this every monthly with the minimum interest possible and take into consideration the total interest charged on your debit card. Not surprisingly, rising interest on loans and debts is leading to a higher standard of living for those looking for finance.

The Citizens Advice Bureaux dealt with 577,486 questions in England and Wales in January 2018 alone. The majority of cases related to taxes and social security payments, but came in second with 138,725 cases related to debt. That is an upturn of 3% over the same period last year. Considering it on a daily base, citizen counseling offices are managing an amazing 4,475 debts associated with questions every single day.

In England and Wales, 25,401 bankruptcies were registered in the last three months of 2017, equivalent to 276 persons per workday. That was a small decline of 0.3% compared to the third quarter of 2017, but a huge rise of 9.5% compared to the prior year.