A gambling suicide EVERY day: Shocking report finds 2m families blighted by problem gambling and 50,000 CHILDREN are addicted The House of Lords review found betting blights the lives of two million Britons The panel behind the report urged the Government to curb giant betting firms It called for mandatory checks to ensure gamblers can…
By Dan Whitworth Money Box reporter 5 June 2020 Image copyright Getty Images “It’s like a last-ditch attempt to get the last bit of money out of a gambler. I was just disgusted.” Dave, not his real name, has fought gambling addiction nearly his entire life and now has 50,000 of gambling debt spread over…
The man said he’d accrued a gambling debt abroad in 2017. The man inherited 98,000 after a home he jointly owned, but did not live in was sold in 2018, a report by the Local Government Ombudsman revealed. Within weeks he’d used used the cash to settle a debt he’d built up abroad. He had…
The man said he’d accrued a gambling debt abroad in 2017. The man inherited 98,000 after a home he jointly owned, but did not live in was sold in 2018, a report by the Local Government Ombudsman revealed. Within weeks he’d used used the cash to settle a debt he’d built up abroad. He had…
Should Student Loan Debt Be Easier to Discharge in Bankruptcy? Pro 1 Denying student loan debtors the benefits of bankruptcy is unfair. The US Supreme Court said in 1915 that the benefits of bankruptcy allow debtors to start afresh free from the obligations and responsibilities. Famous business leaders from Henry Ford to President Donald Trump…
For five years, gambling addict Katie has sought to repeat the adrenaline rush of bagging her first 10,000 win. Instead, online gaming has ruined her life and left her in despair. Furloughed from work, she fears she has run up debts of 9,000 during lockdown which she has hidden from her husband. Ive gambled for…
The UK Gambling Commission reports approximately 200.000 people suffering from severe problem gambling while several hundreds thousands more are in a mild or at risk situation. The forced isolation many British suffer from the lockdown aggravated the figures because of the risk factors implied: Idleness, solitude and the dominance of online gambling, a dangerous mix…
A former Centrelink client from Wagga has backed a royal commission into the ‘robodebt’ system due to the mental health harm she and others experienced after being wrongly told they owed thousands of dollars. Danielle George, who currently works at a supermarket, said she went down into a “spiral” when she was wrongly accused of…
Chinas war on cross border gambling is bearing fruit after it resulted in 11500 arrests as well as the seizure of about $32.4 billion worth of illegal proceeds over the last four months. This past Monday, the Public Security Ministry announced it had taken court more than 250 criminals since it started this crackdown against…
Chiles struggling casino operators could be allowed to expand into online gambling under a plan floated by the government to offset operators COVID-19 struggles. On Tuesday, Chilean media reported that the government plans to send Congress a proposal to allow automatic renewals of the operating permits of 14 casinos that were scheduled to expire this…
