Revealed: The true extent of families’ struggle

ONE-IN-FIVE people have just €70 disposable income each month after monthly bills are paid, a survey by the Irish League of Credit Unions has found.

The ILCU’s “What’s Left Tracker” also found that 80% of families are worried they will not cope if an unforeseen expense arose.

Revealing an increasingly pressurised and cash- strapped population, the survey also found more than a third of the people questioned also see no future in Ireland for themselves or their family.