Australia, March 24-Bankruptcy cases have erupted to 12% in the past year, triple of last year’s numbers. According to a professor at the University of Melbourne, debt stress is consistently becoming a mainstream problem.

Authors Ian Ramsay and Cameron Sim have reported that high status occupations have accounted for more than a quarter of the bankruptcies last year. Managers, administrators and professionals comprised of the 27% declared personal insolvencies.

The rate since 1990 has increased by a phenomenal 260 percent. The Melbourne University study further reports that Australian who went bankrupt over the last 10 years are up by 106 percent and is mostly due to excessive credit levels.

The inability to payoff housing mortgage is also a significant cause of bankruptcy. From 2005 to 2007, the report shows a 700 percent increase in the number of Australians who declared bankruptcy whose creditors were mortgage institutions.

“There is obviously a growing section of the community going bankrupt,” says Ramsay, “but it is also happening at a more rapid rate because they cannot control their debts”. Professor Ramsay expects further surging of personal insolvencies within the year.

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