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More financial education needed says CCCS

September 28, 2007 by admin  
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Britons need to be better educated on their financial management, an expert has warned.

According to Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) spokesperson James Ketchell, many people lack sufficient knowledge when it comes to using credit and assessing whether they can afford it.

Commenting that there needs to be more financial education among young people, he highlighted the difference between managing credit in comparison to a student loan, which provides cheap credit and is automatically deducted out of a borrower’s wage packet.

Mr Ketchell said that it is currently very easy for people in employment to be offered to take on more credit, adding: ” As prices have gone up and wages have stagnated and mortgages have gone up, people have to use a bit more common sense in their financial dealings.”

His warnings come after Credit Action recently stated its assertion that young people in Britain, amidst rising figures of debt saddled by today’s graduates, have been “educated into debt but not about debt”.

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