The economic recovery has not reached the pocket of many families. Every day, the Deco receives an average of 96 requests for help to resolve a debt distress. Altogether, in the first six months of the year were 17,230 requests for help. And “the situations are increasingly degrading,” said Natalia Nunes, revealing a financial burden that comes from years of crisis. “They’re coming – in very difficult situations already involve difficulty paying electricity bills, electricity, gas or even pharmacy,” he tells DN / Mad Money responsible for the support of over-indebted Deco Office (GAS).
The unemployed account for the largest share of those who have difficulties paying the bills. However, by the reduction in the unemployment rate, this number is down from 2012. Not so with the second group major difficulties: pensioners, whose number of requests for help is increasing, already accounting for 16% of total of requests for assistance this year reached the Deco. This increase is to occur “by the accumulation of debts, being guarantors or simply be to see the children return home,” said Natalia Nunes.
The debt distress that has come to GAS is today more worrisome than, for example, last year – 32.7% of aid applications happen when there is already an attachment of assets or when there is no longer any possibility of debt restructuring (21.4%). More than half of the families who asked for help were already overdue.
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