Appeal: Poverty pushes people into dark places. Will you help bring hope?
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Polling insights: A deeper dive into the impact of the rising cost of living

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Polling insights from Christians Against Poverty into the impact of the rising cost of living. 

The rising cost of living has been a regular feature on everybody’s news feeds for the last year and a half. Recent YouGov polling conducted by Christians Against Poverty (CAP) sheds light on the longer-term consequences of this escalating cost of living, painting a bleak picture of what is evolving into a nationwide debt crisis in the UK. When incomes remain stubbornly low, and prices rise, households fall victim to amassing problem debt. Just under 1 in 4 (23%) UK adults can’t afford an unexpected cost of £200. 28% of UK adults are finding keeping up with bills and credit commitments a heavy burden and 9% now have debts that they do not know how they will repay.

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Bea, now debt free. She is a lady with bright blue hair and an equally bright smile, smiling directly at the camera.
Bea, now debt free

Will you bring hope to someone like Bea?

Bea, now debt free. She is a lady with bright blue hair and an equally bright smile, smiling directly at the camera.