Consolidation loans can worsen debt trap

21 April 2024 - 00:01

By Wendy Knowler

Like many who are horribly over-indebted, Miriam hadn’t really interrogated her numbers: all she knew when she made that call to the country’s largest debt counselling company was that “my debt has got too much”.

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