Many 'struggle with catalogue debt'

More people are showing signs of struggling with catalogue debts than they are with payday loans, mortgages or rents, a charity has warned.

The Money Advice Trust's National Debtline received more than 25,000 calls from people with debts to catalogue companies last year, the biggest number and proportion of calls on the issue in the Debtline's 25-year history and almost double the number it handled in 2007.