- Every 4.32 minutes someone will be declared insolvent or bankrupt
- Every 15.28 minutes a property is repossessed
- 1,797 people were made redundant every day between October and December 2011
- Citizens Advice Bureaux deal with 8,652 new debt problems each working day
- The average household debt (including mortgages) is £55,988
- 860,000 people in the UK have been unemployed for 12 months or more
- £173,000,000 is the amount of personal interest paid in the UK on a daily basis