‘PRESSURE has mounted on lenders and the government to tackle problem debt, after new research showed scores of disabled people are being driven into debt just to survive.

The study into disability and debt found that disabled people often face higher costs, but have lower than average incomes, landing them in huge amounts of debt simply to meet basic living costs.

The credit industry, however, was failing to recognise the impact of disability on borrowers, disability charity Leonard Cheshire claimed.’

Read more at Disabled suffering growing levels of problem debt

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