Outside the Banking System: A Review of Households Without a Current AccountThere is a significant minority of households who operate their household budgets outside the banking system and therefore have no access to the facilities that others take for granted. The research on which this report is based was intended to assess the need for, and possible ways of providing, banking services to low-income households, and to assess the impact it would have on the administration of social security. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Income and benefit claimants | 7 |
Conclusion | 13 |
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Common terms and phrases
1,807 row percentages 72 Table access to banking account to handle Appendix One Table arrears bank account bank or building banking facilities banking system banks and building Berthoud and Kempson borrowing building society account cash budget cash card cent of adults cheque account cheque book cheque guarantee card claiming Income Support Consumer Council 1983 credit card credit scoring credit union current bank debt depth interviews direct debit divorced down-market finances full-time giro handle their regular hire purchase household budgets Housing Benefit Jewellery Quarter job loss juggling living on Income loan to pay lone mothers lone parents lost her job low-income families mail order Mintel money lenders money managers moneylenders National Consumer Council neighbourhoods non-pensioner households Northern Ireland overdraft overdraft facility payments pensioner households Policy Studies Institute poll tax pre-payment meters redundant refused regular money repayments retirement separated Social Fund standing orders tenant unemployed United Kingdom wages week workforce
References to this book
Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation Andrew Leyshon,Nigel Thrift No preview available - 1997 |