Payday loan companies ‘hounding’ homeless teenagers and pushing them into debt, charity warns – The Independent

Unscrupulous payday loan companies are pushing debt onto homeless teenagers including those with learning difficulties, and hounding them for repayment, a charity has warned. A 19-year-old with learning difficulties was among those bombarded with aggressive text messages demanding he pay up, the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint said. Despite Centrepoint staff estimating that the Bradford teenager had…