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Money Box

Leap in Under 30s taken to court for debts

Money Box

BBC

Business

4.2825 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Money Box has found that there has been a big increase in the number of young adults being taken to court for unpaid debts.

Court records show that last year around 160,000 people in their twenties were given County Court Judgments in England and Wales - a rise of 30 per cent from the year before.

How a £3 month long trial for a dating website ended up costing one user £300.

And Jon Douglas visits a bank that’s swimming against the tide by opening branches in rural locations.

Presenter: Louise Cooper Researcher: Darin Graham Producer: Alex Lewis Editor: Emma Rippon

Transcript

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0:05.4

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0:41.2

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:47.6

Welcome to Moneybox. Today we hear from one listener who's search for love online ended up costing her hundreds of pounds, even though she'd signed up to a dating website

0:52.9

under a £2.99 months trial.

0:57.0

One previously bankless town in Northumberland now has a new bank based in its community centre.

1:03.6

Could this be a viable model for other rural areas?

1:07.4

And I chat with the producer of a BBC 2 series called Universal Credit Inside the Welfare State,

1:14.1

which takes an in-depth look at the new benefit and in-work poverty.

1:19.0

But first, Moneybox has found there's been a big increase in the number of young adults being taken to court for unpaid debts.

1:27.1

Court records show that last year,

1:29.3

around 160,000 people in their 20s were given county court judgments or CCJs in England and Wales.

1:37.3

That's up 30% from the year before. And this is the continuation of a long-term rising trend. The sums that these

1:46.8

young adults owe, well in many cases, just a few hundred pounds. Claudia is a 23-year-old and

1:54.9

lives in Cardiff. She found out she had a CCJ when she applied for a job. They asked if they could do a credits check.

2:03.5

He called me one afternoon and he said there's sort of a red sort of alert that's popped up on your credit score.

2:11.2

So are you owing any more money or anything like that?

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