Around one in five (21%) UK adults are estimated to be behind on at least one household bill, up from about one in seven (15%) in March, according to a charity.
Among those receiving means-tested benefits, 45% said they are behind with at least one bill. And nearly two-fifths (39%) of people from an ethnic minority background are behind on one bill or more, according to the Money Advice Trust.
Its survey of 2,000 people in August also found two in five (41%) people generally said they had already cut down on all non-essential spending. This was up by seven percentage points compared with the charity’s previous research in March.
