When mortgage or rent payments are a problem, credit cards are not the ...
Story date: 2007-11-06 09:39:00
Added on: 2007-11-06 11:00:17
PR Inside - A recent survey by national charity Shelter shows that one million British people use a credit card to make their rent or mortgage payments. Although this helps in the short term, the resulting interest charges only add to the overall debt, making it ...
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