Carl had always kept himself in a job, so he’d never considered life without a steady income. Then through no fault of his own, he was looking at supporting his family and keeping up the mortgage repayments without work.
His priority was to get another job as soon as possible, but it wasn’t easy. He knew he was entitled to support so he was also spending his time applying for benefits. With all that going on, Carl was putting bills like his Barclaycard on the back burner. But the combined stress of looking for work and letting bills go unpaid was building up and playing on his mind.
Carl wasn’t ready to explain how worried he was to his wife, let alone his lenders. But as the weeks passed and he was facing more and more unpaid bills, he felt the reality of his situation getting to him. He already knew he wouldn’t be able to pay his next Barclaycard bill because:
- he hadn’t paid his last two credit card bills
- fees were being added to his outstanding minimum payments
- he’d taken out a small payday loan and repayments had started