Debt-ridden young people in Kirklees are declaring themselves insolvent before they reach their mid-twenties.
New data shows a total of 821 people in the borough either went bankrupt, took on a debt relief order (DRO) or accepted an individual voluntary arrangement (IVA) to manage their debts in 2017.
Of those, 44 were aged under 25.
Twenty-one of those youngsters took on an IVA, while 22 accepted a DRO. One was declared bankrupt.
Across Kirklees a whole, one in every 412 adults of all ages fell into individual insolvency in 2017.
The national average for England and Wales was one in 469.
Stoke on Trent had the highest rate, with one insolvency for every 223 adults living in the city.
In some parts of London and the affluent south – such…
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