Charity claims elderly parents among risk groups

MORE than 5,000 people at risk of losing their homes had contacted Focus Ireland in the first seven months of this year — equal to the total number for 2009.

The charity revealed elderly parents are now one of the new groups at risk. Many are being forced to take their grown-up children — many of whom are married — back into the family home while silently struggling to pay their own mortgages.

Focus Ireland was one of eight voluntary organisations which came together yesterday to launch an agreed document on how the Government should respond to the personal and mortgage debt crisis.