The figures come as Citizens Advice warns people are at risk of ‘spiralling into debt’ amid the cost-of-living crisis.
A person becomes insolvent when they are unable to pay their debts and are left with a choice of declaring bankruptcy or taking on measures to pay them back.
NEW figures from the Insolvency Service show there were 1,138 personal insolvencies in Cumbria over 2022, up from 931 in 2021.
However, this was still lower than before the pandemic in 2019, 1,142 insolvencies were registered in the area.
The same figures show across England and Wales there were 119,000 insolvencies in 2022 up from 110,000 the year before, but down from a peak of 122,000 in 2019.
Morgan Wild, head of policy at Citizens Advice, said: The cost-o…
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