Charity recruitment may increase as debt rises-Charity recruitment News 15 Mar 2010

Debt charity recruitment of staff and volunteers may increase if unemployment continues to rise as more and more people who cannot pay back their borrowings seek free advice.

Self-funded Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) provides free, impartial debt advice to those in financial difficulty and its yearly statistics, released today (March 15th), show a new type of consumer coming to the organisation for help throughout 2009.

Almost three in four clients seeking help from CCCS owed less than 20 times their net monthly income.

However, CCCS received a record number of calls - 335,323 in total - during 2009. This figure represents a rise of 25 per cent from 2008 of people struggling with debt problems. In addition, over 150,000 people used the internet to access CCCS's online Debt Remedy service, double the number in 2007.

At an invited audience in the House of Commons, Malcolm Hurlston, CCCS chairman, warned of increasing numbers of people continuing to seek debt advice in the short-term and said the charity was "gearing up" to offer more telephone capacity.

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