More than 4m families use a credit card to pay mortgages (Daily Mail)
Story date: 2008-06-18 05:44:17
Added on: 2008-06-18 21:09:42
More than four million families have used a credit card to pay the mortgage or rent in the last year.The figure exposes the dramatic impact of the economic squeeze on ordinary families.
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