20.2 million UK adults find themselves financially excluded.
and some physical abuse, a friend urged her to leave. With the help of Women’s Aid, she put a few belongings in a plastic bag and moved into a flat with her two kids.
While leaving the relationship drew the abuse to a close, it marked the beginning of a new kind of restriction: Emma was locked out of the UK’s financial system. Five years later, she cannot get another mortgage, still rents and has only been accepted for an extremely high-interest credit card.The police only took my case seriously when he started messaging my mum, telling her she should be ashamed of having such a vile daughter.
“It’s uncomfortable to hear but the patriarchy has shaped the UK financial system from how credit scoring algorithms are written to the cost of childcare’.”
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