'Vast majority' of UK employees troubled by money

Inaugural Close Brothers Financial Wellbeing Index finds

Adam Saville
clock • 4 min read

Protection represents lowest scoring area for personal finance

Research surveying more than 5,000 employees and more than 1,000 employers has found that the vast majority of UK employees are troubled by money. Close Brothers' inaugural Financial Wellbeing Index, which assesses and scores the financial wellbeing of people working in the UK across seven key areas of financial health, found that 94% are suffering from money worries, 77% say that money impacts them at work and two in five (40%) employees worry about their finances always and often. The Index estimates that a total of 25m UK employees are affected by money worries while at work and th...

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