Student loan debt is the second - largest
source of household debt.
At nearly $ 1.4 trillion in loans outstanding, student debt is now the second - largest
source of household debt (after housing) and is the only form of consumer debt that continued to grow in the wake of the Great Recession.
Updated as of January 2018, the most recent U.S. Student Loan debt statistics are outlined showing 44 million Americans now hold over $ 1.48 Trillion in Student Debt, the second largest
source of household debt.
Not exact matches
At that time, the main data
sources on consumer
debt consisted
of loan - level data sets on specific categories
of loans, such as mortgages, as well as aggregated data on
household sector
debt from the Board
of Governors» Flow
of Funds statistical release.
The only certain and politically feasible
source of debt - free demand is domestic
household consumption, but Chinese
households suffer from the same problem Marriner Eccles identified in the US in the 1930s: those who want to spend do not have the resources, and those who have the resources do not want to spend — or in this case are not able to spend productively.
Considering that the most recent U.S. Bureau
of Labor Statistics figures show that housing costs are the biggest component
of household spending, it's not surprising that loans taken out to buy homes are the biggest
source of debt for those surveyed by GOBankingRates.
According to some
sources,
household debt averaged a record 133.7 %
of disposable income in the fourth quarter
of 2007 - that means that people spent 33.7 % more than they made.
Information about your first mortgage, such as your monthly mortgage statement Information about any second mortgage or home equity line
of credit on the house Account balances and minimum monthly payments due on all
of your credit cards Account balances and monthly payments on all your other
debts such as student loans and car loans Your most recent income tax return Information about your savings and other assets Information about the monthly gross (before tax) income
of your
household, including recent pay stubs if you receive them or documentation
of income you receive from other
sources
In your Affidavit
of Financial Support, you'll want to cover information like: the name
of the affiant (that is, the person making the affidavit); the name
of the affiant's employer, if he or she is employed, what efforts the affiant has made to find employment; a list
of all
sources of income; the monthly deductions from the affiant's salary (for example: MediCare payments, income taxes, child support, health insurance and retirement contributions); the average monthly
household expenses; any
debts owed by the affiant; and a list
of assets that the affiant owns or has some interest in.