i. Ministerial Foreword
The Scottish Government has made a commitment to identify and take forward improvements in our debt management solutions to ensure they remain fair and fit for purpose. I believe we have an excellent system with solutions that provide fair and effective remedies for people trying to deal with problem debt and those seeking to recover money that is owed. But the need to continually review the detail of our mechanisms has been brought into sharp focus through the economic uncertainty resulting from the pandemic, coupled with the extreme cost pressures placed on households across Scotland that have followed.
The Scottish Government has already acted quickly to introduce important reforms to help those most vulnerabl…
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