High-cost lenders 'exploit NHS workers on pandemic frontline'
High-cost lenders 'exploit NHS workers on pandemic frontline' Study claims thousands of mainly lower-paid workers have relied on loans charging up to 1,333% interest to survive NHS workers protested last year in a campaign for fair pay. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images NHS workers protested last year in a campaign for fair pay. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images Sun 21 Feb 2021 04.00 EST Paula Land found herself in a spiral of debt she could not get out of. After lending an acquaintance money that was not paid back in 2016, the NHS nurse was forced to go to payday lenders so she...
Source: theguardian.com