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More than 750,000 UK households at risk of mortgage default, says regulator

Financial Conduct Authority warns on mounting danger of ‘payment shortfall’

More than three quarters of a million UK households are at risk of defaulting on their mortgage payments in the next two years, the country’s top financial regulator has warned.

In a letter to the House of Commons Treasury select committee on Wednesday, the Financial Conduct Authority said about 200,000 households had fallen behind on their home loans by mid-2022.

The watchdog said a further 570,000 households were “at risk of payment shortfall” within the next two years, because their mortgage costs will be more than 30 per cent of their income.

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