Drowning in debt: Budget services reveal clients owe $50m - and rising
20 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM
5 minutes to read
Some people in the Bay are drowning in debt. Photo / Getty Images
Struggling Bay of Plenty families are drowning in debt - with cripplingly high-interest loans driving many to despair. Two Bay budget services, whose clients have accumulated more than $50 million in arrears, say debt levels are soaring, along with housing costs, and the financial fallout of Covid-19 on working families is still being felt.
Some clients were struggling to survive, people were sleeping in cars and children were going to school hungry.
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Drowning in debt: Budget services reveal clients owe $50m - and rising
20 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM
5 minutes to read
Some people in the Bay are drowning in debt. Photo / Getty Images
Struggling Bay of Plenty families are drowning in debt - with cripplingly high-interest loans driving many to despair. Two Bay budget services, whose clients have accumulated more than $50 million in arrears, say debt levels are soaring, along with housing costs, and the financial fallout of Covid-19 on working families is still being felt.
Some clients were struggling to survive, people were sleeping in cars and children were going to school hungry.
A SCHOOL in York celebrated International Women’s Day with a special online event, in conversation with the first five girls to be educated there. The event, organised by St Peter s School, was broadcast live on Zoom on Monday (March 8) and was hosted by head master Jeremy Walker and Victoria Inness, who left the school in 1990 and was the first female head of school. Jeremy and Victoria were joined virtually by Sue Miller (née Elston), Louise Denison (née Stansfield), Louise Morales (née Adams), Nicky Goodwin (née Jesper) and Zoe Jones (née Jackson), the first five girls who joined St Peter’s for the sixth form in 1976 when they were 17.