Official statistics are expected to show an increase in the number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales.
The number of people becoming insolvent in England and Wales has shown a surprising fall, official figures show.
Figures from April to June are likely to be higher than the record level of 30,075 people who became insolvent in the first three months of the year.
Between April to June 26,956 people became insolvent, this is a decrease of 8.1% on the previous quarter but a rise of 4.2% on the same period last year.
Experts say rising interest rates have put people under even more pressure.
Experts say the fall maybe due to lenders becoming less keen to accept Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVAs), a type of insolvency.
Separate data is also expected to show a rise in the number of homeowners having their houses repossessed.
In total, the number of IVAs fell 15% between the first and second quarters.
New record
Into reverse
The numbers of insolvencies and repossessions have been rising sharply but the rate of increase is starting to slow.
Over the past year, a huge increase in individual voluntary arrangements or IVAs, a type of insolvency, has boosted the figures but this has now gone into reverse as lenders become more reluctant to accept them.
A huge increase in individual voluntary arrangements or IVAs, a type of insolvency, has boosted the figures but it is thought these are starting to level off as lenders become more reluctant to accept them.
"Lenders have hardened their attitude to IVAs," Pay Boyden, an insolvency specialist at PriceWaterhouseCoopers told BBC News.
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"In recent times lenders have been suspicious that some IVA providers, through high profile advertising, have been encouraging people to enter into IVAs who need not do.
The insolvency figure for January to March 2007 set a new record and was an increase of 23.9% on the same three-month period in 2006.
"However IVAs serve a purpose, they ensure that the lender gets around 25 pence in the pound of the money owed back - compared to a few pence in the pound in bankruptcy," Mr Boyden added.
Although the number of mortgage repossession orders in England and Wales fell slightly between the last quarter of 2006 and first three months of 2007, the last set of figures were up 65% over the year.
But experts say this is still nowhere near the peak of the early 1990s.
Meanwhile, although homeowners were spared another increase on 5.75% on Thursday, UK interest rates have risen five times in the past year as the Bank of England tries to rein in inflation.
One research company CACI says the repossession problem could get worse as nearly 300,000 people will see their cheap fixed rate mortgages run out by the end of the year.
That means their payments could rise by as much as a third.
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