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More than third of all Scottish companies were thought to be at a “higher than usual” risk of entering a position of insolvency during December of last year.

Concerns about money are a cause of stress for one in three workers across the UK, according to a new set of figures.

Many thousands of Scots are feeling the financial squeeze and have found themselves with growing money worries this year.

Almost one in three people living across Britain will rely on some form of borrowing to cover the costs of Christmas.

Consumers across Scotland are being urged not to let their financial situation deteriorate drastically through an overreliance on debt this Christmas.

The country’s leading food bank charity has said that it handed out more food parcels than ever before between April and the end of September this year.

Users of foodbanks across the UK are living on an average income of £50 per week once their rent has been paid, according to a new study.

Campaign groups are calling for there to be an increase to amounts of money being distributed via the Scottish Welfare Fund after it was revealed that more and more people are applying for its emergency funds.

Indebted Scots are being urged to check whether they’re entitled to claim council tax reductions.

Slightly over a third (34 per cent) of all adults living in Scotland don’t set any money aside as savings on a regular basis, according to a new piece of research.

Some 76 per cent of Scottish adults are worried about money or about their debt situations as they look ahead to the next 12 months.

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