Lifeline for mortgage prisoners as MSE campaign takes huge step forward - MSE News

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The financial watchdog is to consult on introducing new lending rules which could help free more up to 140,000 mortgage prisoners, in a huge step forward for MoneySavingExpert's campaign...
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  • silvercar
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    I'm curious why 80% of these mortgage prisoners are with unregulated lenders.
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  • MortgageMamma
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    There is too much talking to little action regarding this issue and it should have been sorted out years ago. I'm impatient to see the ACTUAL rules and if they really do help these poor people.
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    silvercar wrote: »
    I'm curious why 80% of these mortgage prisoners are with unregulated lenders.


    Me too! I wonder if they have any financial oversight at all? Not that NRAM had much but even they had some! What would happen if those unregulated lenders went kaput?
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    badmemory wrote: »
    Not that NRAM had much but even they had some!

    UKAR still have plenty on their books. Plenty of challenges lie ahead. Not least funding.
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