Shelter, who carried out the research, has warned that relying on such methods could lead to people losing their homes.

The figure equates to almost seven million people when projected on a national scale, the charity said.

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And it has urged those sinking into a “spiral of debt” to seek immediate help.

Shelter found that 2% of people have used at least one payday loan to fund their rent or mortgage in the last year, equating to almost one million people nationally.

It said such loans, which are intended for short-term use and can charge as much as 4,000% APR in some cases, are an “unsustainable” way of paying for housing.

Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: “These shocking findings show the extent to which millions of households across the country are desperately struggling to keep their home.

“Turning to short-term payday loans to help pay for the cost of housing is totally unsustainable. It can quickly lead to debts snowballing out of control and can lead to eviction or repossession and ultimately homelessness.”

The Shelter report will fuel concerns about people seeking high-interest credit, following a report from insolvency trade body R3 last month which predicted payday loan companies will see a surge in demand in the coming months as Britons struggle with their finances.

The Office of Fair Trading is planning a review to ensure businesses are complying with responsible lending rules amid criticism of the payday loan sector.

The Consumer Finance Association (CFA), which represents businesses offering short-term loans, stresses on its website that payday loans are designed to be repaid typically within a month and a half and they are not appropriate if a large sum of cash is needed to be paid back over months or years.

Martin Lewis of MoneySavingExpert.com said: “It’s incredibly worrying there’s now evidence of people using payday loans to meet housing costs.
“While it’s an obvious temptation to grasp these loans as a lifeline, in the long run it may hurt more than help.”

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The OFT has not named the companies involved, but said it was concerned firms were not checking whether customers could afford to repay these debts or explaining the terms of the loans clearly – including the often hefty charges for falling behind with repayments.

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Those found guilty of misconduct could lose their credit licenses or be forced to change their practices.

The regulator is now widening its investigation in the run up to Christmas, and will look at the online advertising of a further 50 firms.

In total the OFT received 1,535 complaints about these controversial companies in the first 11 months of this year, up from just 700 complaints for the whole of 2010. Surprisingly, it received more complaints about these payday loan companies than credit card companies – despite the fact that the latter is far more widely used by the general public.

Payday loans have attracted criticisms recently – from politicians and consumer groups. These short-term loans charge high interest rates, in some cases equivalent to APRs of 3,000pc.

This market has boomed in the UK in recent years, and is now estimated to be worth £2bn, with the number of customers rising from 300,000 in 2006 to an estimated 4m today.

The OFT highlighted a number of concerns about how these loans are structured and advertised. This includes the use of “continuous payment authority” which gives the payday loan company the right to keep taking repayments, even if a customer’s bank account is overdrawn.

It is also concerned that many of these loans – which may be just for a week or a month – are effectively “rolled over” if they haven’t been repaid. In such cases charges can quickly spiral, leaving those on low incomes struggling to repay these debts.

However, payday loan companies have argued that they offer a cost-effective way for people to access small amounts of credit for very short-periods of time, typically to tide them over until their next payday. While the APRs may look high compared to personal loans and credit cards, they are comparable to the charges levied on some unauthorised bank overdrafts.

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Concern over personal debt has reached the highest level since insolvency body R3 began making records, it said yesterday as it warned of “zombie debtors”
who are only paying off interest rather than the debt itself.

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Payday loan companies have been criticised for charging annual interest rates of up to 4,000 per cent. Frances Coulson, president of R3, said people across all socio-economic groups face a “debt hangover” which is worsening because of rising unemployment and increased spending in the run-up Christmas.

“Many who take out payday loans find them to be a negative experience, often escalating financial troubles.”

MPs and consumer groups have called for a tightening of laws on payday loan firms, although this has raised fears it could push the poorest people toward illegal loan sharks.

Sarah Brooks, director of financial services at Consumer Focus, said: “Much more needs to be done to prevent consumers getting caught in spiralling debt.”

A spokesman for the coalition said it was aware of concerns and that ministers are working with the industry and consumer organisations to ensure people are protected.

Industry group the Consumer Finance Association said firms provide an alternative to bank charges on unauthorised loans and described the 2,000 people sample size in the R3 survey as “not credible”.

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Newly hired Florida coach Will Muschamp will make $2.7 million per season in a five-year contract with the school, according to a report from the Gainesville Sun.

Citing a single, unnamed source, the story reported a total that would triple Muschamp’s current salary. He was making $900,000 per year as the defensive coordinator at Texas after being named the head coach in waiting in 2008.

Florida was paying Urban Meyer $4 million per season in a six-year deal.

Muschamp’s reported salary would rank him in the middle of the pack in the SEC. Alabama’s Nick Saban is the highest paid coach in the conference and the country with total compensation of more than $5.9 million per year.

Les Miles ranks second in the conference at $3.9 million. Arkansas’ Bobby Petrino, who was rumored to be among the candidates Florida might consider to replace Meyer, signed a contract extension this weekend that bumped his salary to more than $3.5 million.

Georgia’s Mark Richt is the only other SEC coach ahead of Muschamp with a $2.9 million salary.

But Muschamp’s standing in the SEC will likely change. Auburn’s Gene Chizik is expected to receive a raise from his current salary of $2.1 million after leading the Tigers to the BCS National Championship. And South Carolina’s Steve Spurrier ($2 million) could receive a bump after winning the school’s first Eastern Division title this season.

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These are the legal loan sharks who pile eye-watering interest rates on short-term loans to working people who struggle from one month to the next.

Montana is now the 16th US state where payday lending is effectively banned thanks to a 36% limit on the annual interest rate lenders can charge.

Here in the UK, it’s pretty much a free-for-all. Lenders charge up to 4,400% annual interest in a booming market that has ­quadrupled in size since the credit crunch.

Jeff Bassett, from Bristol, took out a £500 loan from wonga.com last year. “We needed the money,” he explained simply, “and there was no other option.”

But he missed the deadline for paying it back and the loan will now cost him more than £1,500 and he won’t be debt-free for years.

Award-winning Wonga, sponsors of Blackpool FC, poses as a carefree, smiley kind of company.

In the “frequently asked ­questions” section of its website after “What personal information does Wonga need?”, the firm teases: “We need your star sign, favourite takeaway and inside leg measurement. Oooonly joking!”

This light-hearted approach to a serious business has already got Wonga into trouble when the Advertising Standards Authority ruled it “trivialised” borrowing and didn’t give its stonking annual interest rate of 2,689% enough “prominence”.

Make no mistake, cuddly Wonga, founded by Errol Damelin, was backed to the tune of £14million last year by some of the hardest-nosed venture capitalists around, including Greylock ­Partners and Accel Partners, both early funders of Facebook.

Wonga said Jeff’s situation was “regrettable”. They have reduced “failed collection” fees from £105 to £25 and now only charge interest of 1% per day for up to 60 days before passing the debt to a “collection team”.

Like many payday lenders, Wonga complains that APR is an unfair measure as loans are designed to be paid off within 28 days and can be cheaper than unauthorised overdrafts.

But Damon Gibbons, of the Centre for Responsible Credit, said: “They are targeting people who are already in debt. That’s why they are compare ­themselves with unauthorised overdrafts.”

Five of the seven biggest payday lenders in the UK are US-owned or financed. That’s because we’re a soft touch.

The Office of Fair Trading has failed to cap both unauthorised bank charges and interest rates on payday loans, leaving borrowers caught between a rock and a hard place.

New MP Stella Creasy yesterday launched a bill aimed at limiting the total amount lenders can charge, a measure already in place of half of EU countries.

“We can’t stop people borrowing money,” she told us. “But we can do things to protect them.”

She’s also hoping for ­government support in her crusade to give lenders like these a much tougher time.

After all, seven members of the Cabinet, including Lib Dems Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander and Tory Ed Vaizey, all backed caps on interest rates for doorstep lenders only five years ago.

By Nick Sommerlad, Mirror.co.uk

Police believe fraudsters managed to get loans paid out by Help Loan using personal details of innocent Britons.

The Finland-based company believes the fraud has cost it at least £1.5m, Radio 4′s Money Box programme has learned.

The firm says it has now taken steps to tighten security.

Fast loans

Help Loan only started trading in the UK this summer. It offers people loans of between £50 and £300 at very high rates of interest which they must repay within 28 days. These are often known as “payday loans” as they tide cash-strapped people over until their next salary payment.

The company’s website says its application process takes no more than 10 minutes.

One of the victims of the fraud has complained that the company needs to do more to verify that the applicant is who he or she claims to be. Alyson Lampard from Bristol told Money Box that she had her personal details used without her permission to commit the fraud.

She received a letter in August from Help Loan which said it expected her to repay a loan by September.

She said: “It said my payment of £513 should reach them before 23 September. I hadn’t taken out any loan with this company so I rang them.”

Alyson discovered that the firm had her correct date of birth but the bank account details and mobile phone number on the application were not hers.

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She believes Help Loan should have had better security systems in place to prevent this sort of fraud. She said: “They need to make their whole site a lot more secure and be sure that the person who is applying for the loan is the person they say they are.”

Since Alyson looked at the application process, it has been modified.

In the meantime thousands of people have contacted the site Action Fraud, run by the National Fraud Authority, to complain they too have received a similar letter.

Help Loan, which is registered as MCO Capital at Companies House, has apologised to people who have received these letters and says it has reviewed its processes.

Changed procedures

It said: “MCO Capital has been a victim of fraud and deeply regrets the inconvenience and distress caused to people who have also been victims and had false applications for loans made in their name.

As soon as the fraud became apparent in August, MCO Capital took steps to review its procedures and is fully co-operating with the police and trading standards.”

Money Box has learned that the firm sought external help to try to check the identity of customers, using a system offered by the credit reference agency Experian.

Experian confirmed that one of its products had been used, saying: “MCO used one part of Experian’s verification service that cross-references an applicant’s name with their address to provide an indication as to whether they live at that address.

“In terms of other measures the company uses, MCO is best placed to comment on its processes.”

Enforcement stopped

The City of London police says those affected should write to Help Loan via the debt recovery firm it is using, Intrum Justitia, in order to register this as a “false loan”.

It says this will halt any enforcement action by Help Loan or Intrum Justitia whilst the police enquiries continue.

Neil Munroe, external affairs director for the credit reference agency Equifax, said he considered the risks of a person’s credit record being badly affected by this episode were low. “The majority of payday loan firms don’t provide information to the credit bureaux,” he said.

“The only thing that’s likely to be there if there’s been a credit check would be that someone has accessed your credit file to look at it.”

BBC Radio 4′s Money Box is broadcast on Saturdays at 1200 BST, and repeated on Sundays at 2100 BST.

By Bob Howard, BBC News

They want the market regulator to make lenders behave responsibly, as some companies have lent money at a rate equivalent to almost 2,000% annually.

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Payday loans typically involve a lender advancing a customer cash, usually for a month, against a post-dated cheque.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said they would be covered by investigations of the issue of responsible lending.

Although the loans, often used by people to tide themselves over until they get their wages, generally attract high rates of interest, the businesses offering them are properly licensed and they say they are professional and responsible.

One company providing payday loans, The Money Shop, told BBC Breakfast it offered a valuable service to those “who may alternatively be faced with high unauthorised overdraft costs”.

It said the cost of its lending products reflected the levels of risks it took.

‘Excesses’

Beccy Boden Wilks, of National Debtline, a helpline for those in debt, said that the credit crunch meant that people were looking at alternative forms of borrowing.

“If they can’t get another credit card balance transfer, they will start to look at other forms of borrowing, which could be payday loans or pawnbroking, which are quite expensive.”

Damon Gibbons, of debt campaign group Debt On Our Doorstep, said urgent action was needed.

“We certainly welcome the fact the OFT says it is looking at the issue of responsible lending more generally in the UK,” he said.

“But we want to push them further to ensure payday lending is at the top of their list and is acted on immediately.

“We believe there is a lot more they could be doing to curb the worst excesses of the payday industry.”

Many loan shops are owned by American companies, and hundreds have opened in the UK after some state authorities capped the rates they could charge in the US.

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