Debt charity answering hundreds of calls a month

The British debt charity struck a deal with Ireland’s five main mortgage lenders in 2015

Mike O’Connor of Step Change

StepChange, which has been operating a bank-funded telephone advisory service for struggling Irish debtors for just over a year, is receiving hundreds of calls per month from borrowers weighed down by problem debt.

The British debt charity struck a deal with Ireland’s five main mortgage lenders in 2015, and launched its service here in mid-November of that year.

Under the terms of the deal with AIB, Bank of Ireland, KBC, Permanent TSB and ...