Released on = May 4, 2006, 10:42 am

Press Release Author = Clear Start National Consumer Debt Service

Industry = Financial

Press Release Summary = According to Clear Start, the National Consumer Debt
Service, the level of personal debt in the UK is not only growing at a frightening
rate but is likely to continue to do so.

Press Release Body = According to Clear Start, the National Consumer Debt Service,
the level of personal debt in the UK is not only growing at a frightening rate but
is likely to continue to do so.

The country's debt levels are very alarming. Personal debt broke through the £1
trillion barrier in 2004 which was only seven years it after broke through the £500
billion barrier. The staggering debt growth rate is illustrated by the fact that
personal debt has doubled in the nine years since Labour came to power in 1997.

And with bankruptcies reaching record levels in the last quarter of 2005 and
consumer appetites for borrowing seeming to be insatiable, the consumer debt problem
in the UK shows no sign of abating.

A spokesman for Clear Start said that,

"The rate at which consumer debt seems to be increasing is very worrying. However,
it is good that more and more people are contacting Clear Start for impartial help
and advice which is of course the first step in actually coming to terms with and
clearing their debt problems".


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