Welcome 

Welcome to MAT's Information Hub. The hub provides access to a range of information for people with an interest in money advice, credit, debt and debt remedies and recovery. Read more ...

News 

Essential living costs reviewed

16 July 2010

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation publishes its annual update, based on what members of the public think people need to achieve a socially acceptable standard of living.

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Themes 

Advice

This section of the site includes information on the provision of money and debt advice. In this section you will find a number of information resources that relate to the provision of money and debt advice and information on those providing advice, those people accessing advice, the cost of delivering advice and the outcomes and impact of advice.

This theme contains:   Need & demand for money advice | Outcomes & impact of money advice | Profiles of money advice clients | Profiles of the money advice workforce | Supply of money advice | The cost of money advice

Credit

This section of the site provides information on the availability of credit in the UK. It includes information on the current levels of credit available and being used in relation to a number of potential types of credit including credit cards, charge cards, loans, mortgages etc and to the suppliers of credit including banks, building societies and other lenders.

This theme contains:   Levels of credit | Overview of credit | Sources of credit

Debt

This section of the site provides a wide-range of information dealing with a range of issues about debt. This section includes information resources on issues such as the causes of debt, the impact of debt, different types of debt and information about people in debt.

This theme contains:   Causes of debt | Credit debt | Demographic profiles of people in debt | Housing debt | Impact of debt | Overview of debt | Socio-economic profiles of people in debt | Statutory debt | Tax debt | Utilities & telephony debt

Debt remedies and recovery

This section of the site deals specifically with debt remedies and debt recovery. It provides a range of information resources that deal with the ways both creditors and debtors can resolve outstanding debt issues and includes information on actions that can be taken to resolve debt issues including bankruptcy, individual voluntary arrangements and sanctions to recover debt including imprisonment and removal of goods.

This theme contains:   Debt recovery | Debt Remedies

Administrations What is this?

• England (158 items)
• Northern Ireland (49 items)
• Wales (134 items)
• Scotland (86 items)
• UK (279 items)
• Great Britain (12 items)
• European Union (8 items)

Frequent publishers What is this?

• Bank of England (28 items)
• Money Advice Trust (26 items)
• CCCS (24 items)
• Insolvency Service (24 items)
• British Bankers' Association (18 items)

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Recently added What is this?

• Cutting back, cutting down, cutting off (20 Jul 10)
• A minimum income standard for the UK in 2010: Executive Summary (16 Jul 10)
• A minimum income standard for the UK in 2010 (16 Jul 10)

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