More and more people in the country cannot afford to live

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More and more people in the country cannot afford to live

Due, among other things, to inflation, more and more people in Austria were forced to contact debt counseling in the past year 2023. The number of people affected who cited increased living support and housing costs as the reason for their over-indebtedness has even more than doubled compared to the previous year. So-called initial contacts increased by 17 percent compared to the previous year 2022, as the “2024 Debt Report” shows. In 2023, a to…