Published : 2025-05-09

Consumer bankruptcy and the problem of financial exclusion

Abstract

Consumer bankruptcy allows insolvent consumers for debt relief but is also related to restrictions on access to certain financial services, including transaction and credit services (blocking in bank accounts) which may cause serious difficulties for over-indebted consumers in the management of personal finance. Banks may discriminate bankrupts in various areas of financial services during the stages of bankruptcy proceedings and even after its finish. From a macroeconomic perspective, the increasing number of consumer bankruptcies may pose threats to the stability of the financial system and certain restrictions in access to credit services are necessary, but on the other hand, arbitrary exclusion from the area of credit services may deprive many debt-free consumers of the opportunity to improve their well-being and economic condition of households that were deprived of valuable assets, including housing, during bankruptcy proceedings.

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consumer bankruptcy, financial exclusions, excessive debt

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K34, L31


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Reczuch, A. (2025). Consumer bankruptcy and the problem of financial exclusion. Safe Bank, 98(1), 106–125. https://doi.org/10.26354/bb.6.1.98.2025

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