A months pay from becoming homeless
The survey of working adults found 31 per cent could not pay their rent or mortgage from savings for more than a month.
And 17 per cent of those said if they lost their jobs and couldn’t secure a new one right away, they couldn’t pay their rent or mortgage at all.
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Hide AdCampbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter said: “These figures paint an alarming picture of a nation where the buffer between having a home and potentially becoming homeless is a single pay check.”
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