As seen on the BBC News website today there has been a further rise in the amount of credit card debts being written off by UK banks and other lending institutes.
Bank of England figures show that in the first three months of 2010 write-offs rose to £1.25bn. That was the second highest quarterly amount on record. Last year, a record £4.12bn was written off by credit cards lenders which amounted to 10% of all money lent on credit cards.
£160m was the amount of money written off on mortgages which is the lowest quarterly figure for 18 months. The number of repossessions in the UK also fell by 7.5% in the first quarter of 2010 to 9800.
The Bank of England have been quoted as saying that these losses have been the prime factor in the increase on the interest payable. Statistics show that the average UK credit card rate was 15.51% in April this year which is slightly higher than July 2007 where the rate was 15.2%.
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