News release: “New figures from national debt charity Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) show which of its clients are in arrears on their mortgages. Over 20,000 (20,717) of the people seeking the charity’s help in the first six months of this year have been in arrears, with 43,540 last year and 30,291 in 2009. The figures show that over half of these clients in arrears are female, over half single and over half are between the ages of 40 and 59, and two-thirds on low incomes.”