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Originally Posted by Ian Robinson
You might have been , but a lot of others were not.
Many people (working and otherwize) were going backwards a huge rate , there were record levels of people being declared bankrupt and of home foreclosures if I remember correctly , so much so that it was regarded as scandelous .
I was actually out of work and retraining (and still had a mortgage) for a lot of that period - I was lucky that I had a Building Soc who looks after it's customers and who bent over backwards to help me stay in my home. So long as I kept paying the agreed repayments each month.
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That's interesting Ian, - if you were paying the agreed repayments each month, why was it 'bending over backwards' of them ? How would they even have known you were out of work?