US EditionCBS: One in Three People in Poverty Struggled with Problematic Debt in 2023
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Nieuws.nlNearly a third of Dutch people living in poverty struggle with problematic debt. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this based on the most recent figures for 2023. For people living just above the poverty line, problematic debt occurs in over a fifth of cases, according to CBS.
Nearly one in three people living in poverty has problematic debt. This is reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) based on figures from 2023. According to CBS, 163,000 people living in poverty had registered problematic debts that year. This could include debt owed to the Tax and Customs Administration, registered payment arrears with the Credit Registration Office (BKR), or arrears in health insurance premiums or traffic fines. The extent to …
Dutch people living below the poverty line are three times more likely than average to have problematic debt. Those living in the "near-poor" bracket also face this problem above average.
Nearly a third of Dutch people living below the poverty line are struggling with problematic debt. This is evident from new figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) for 2023. This number amounts to over 163,000 people. Even in the group just above the poverty line, the number of debtors is substantial.
Around 163 thousand poor people were dealing with problematic debts in 2023.
CBS: One in three people in poverty struggled with problematic debt in 2023
Nearly 163,000 people living in poverty in the Netherlands — about 31 percent of the 540,000 in this group — faced registered problematic debts in 2023, according to new figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Among those with incomes just above the poverty threshold, 22 percent — about 265,000 people — had such debts. By comparison, only 10 percent of the general population experienced problematic debt.
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