Credit Cards

It will soon be illegal for gambling companies to allow their customers to place bets via credit card payments.

People aged over 55 who have borrowed money at some stage in the past five years are becoming increasingly reliant on credit card debt.

Communications designed to encourage people in long-term credit card debt to start dealing with their issues are going widely ignored across the country.

The government is considering taking steps to prevent people across the UK from using their credit cards to gamble.

The Welsh actor Michael Sheen has helped to launch a new campaign against high-cost credit and the companies that offer money to customers at very high levels of interest.