Floored by Debt

Many of the self-employed are finding themselves at the mercy of the banks as they gave a personal guarantee on a business loan, never once suspecting in boomtime that the economy would shortly implode.
Some of the people that walk through the door of the MABS office are only managing three meals a day because of support from St Vincent de Paul, while in many other cases, granny and grandad are footing the weekly grocery bill.