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‘Struggling more than ever’: Debt reaches six-year high

8 August 2025 10:10 | News

For debt support, a record number of Australian living in “very troubled” financial situations does not show signs of reducing pressures.

. National debt line line During the 2024-25 fiscal year, more than 168,000 people had reached.

Since 2018-19, it has broken a record record with the most call and chat messages.

“He really tells us that people are struggling more than ever,” the CBKI staff, the coordinator of the Help Line, said to AAP.

Mortgage repayments are an important issue of financial stress for Australians. (Darren UK/AAP Photos)

Lock issues that focus on Australians are housing stress, including mortgages, rent rates and layers or body corporate costs.

Public services such as electricity, gas and water costs, problematic credit card debt, personal loans and other concerns due to the Australian tax office.

Each state and region can have a different order than the most important financial stress.

“In a case, you can see that public services actually come as the number one presentation problem and perhaps take second place,” he said.

Existing financial issues, rent stress, layers and body corporate costs are different from what happened in 2018-19, where they are not reported as key pressures.

Personal loans were not a dominant issue in 2018-19. Instead, buy now weighing the payment schemes on the Australians.

When the Australians say the debt aid line, they believe that they consume all options to solve their financial problems.

“People really did their best… To deal with the cost of this life crisis, but they reach a point where they cannot think about what else they will do in the end,” he said.

“It seems quite insurmountable. They are usually in a very stressful situation.”

However, the debt crisis, 15,000 people who are already looking for support in July for the new fiscal year do not show signs of slowing down.

Australian Reserve Bank has hope that it will reduce its interest rates as 3.85 percent at the moment of 2025 later – and will create some pressure on households.

The Central Bank seems to be ready to remove 25 basis points from the cash ratio when it meets next week.

The National Debt Aid Line offers financial consultancy and self -aid guides to provide options to overcome difficult financial situations.


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