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Debt advice in an age of inflation

At the beginning of 2021, UK inflation was under 1% but by the end of the year it was about 5%. In May 2022, it was up to nearly 9%. More than 20 million household say their energy bills go up by over 50% in April. Petrol price increases are hard for anyone commuting to work by car or living in a rural area. And of course rising food prices are affecting everyone. When it raised UK interest … [Read more...]

May 6, 2022 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: For debt advisers, SFS

Robo advice – can it deliver good quality debt advice?

"Robo advice" is being used increasingly to provide investment advice to people who can't afford individual advice from an IFA. Can a similar approach deliver good quality debt advice through an automated online process? Face-to-face advice is sometimes seen as both expensive and a process that not all clients may want or need. In this article I examine what robo debt advice can do well, the … [Read more...]

April 6, 2022 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: For debt advisers, SFS

Holding Money & Debt up to the Light: Transparency and the Standard Financial Statement

This is a guest post by Dr Joseph Spooner, Assistant Professor of Insolvency Law at the LSE and the author of Bankruptcy – the Case for Relief in an Economy of Debt. He had previously worked at the Law Reform Commission of Ireland, where his papers influenced the enactment of the Irish Personal Insolvency Act 2012. Systems for addressing difficulties of over-indebted households in England … [Read more...]

September 17, 2019 Author: Sara Williams Tagged With: For debt advisers, guest post, Insolvency news & policy, SFS

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