Overdrawn, underpaid and over it: how four people conquered their debt mountains

It’s easy to let your credit card balance mount up – and hard to admit you have a problem. But help is at hand. We talk to four people who worked their way back into the black Abbie Marton Bell, a National Debt Line adviser, is often the first person her clients will speak to about their debt, after years of carrying the weight of their financial worries alone. Most of the time, they haven’t even told their partner or family, she says, and “you can literally hear the relief in their voice”. D...

By Emma Russell