Young people are 50% more likely to fund key life milestones with credit than their parents
I always feel so worried for young people in regard to finances and their future but it seems they feel a lot more confident about it than we did.
Despite soaring house prices and slow wage growth, apparently young people are confident they will hit key life milestones six months earlier than their parents. These finding are based on research from free credit score checking service ClearScore.
It shows a huge shift in financial attitudes between generations. For example, 50% of young people use some form of loan to fund their wedding, with one in five putting the big day on a credit card. By contrast, just 18% of baby boomers paid for their wedding with a loan. I personally would never have considered it we just did it on the cheap!
Fund key life milestones with credit
And it is not just weddings! People in their twenties confidently use credit to fund other important milestones too apparently : 42% use credit to help cover the costs associated with their first child; 49% do so to move out of their parents’ home and 43% on their first solo holidays.
Their parents statistics are vastly different experience, with just 13% using credit when they had their first child; 18% flew the nest using credit and 17% took their first holiday without their parents with borrowed money.
The research also shows that, while the timeline of young people’s aspirations maps closely to their parents, financial pressures are still holding some people back. A quarter would like to have got married sooner if they could have afforded it, while 20% would have moved out of their parents’ home more quickly.
5% said that their finances had not held them back from achieving key milestones when they would have liked to.
Justin Basini, CEO of free credit score checking service ClearScore said, “Today’s young people share the same goals and aspirations as their parents, but they’re using more flexible ways to afford key milestones. This isn’t a bad thing as long as they manage this credit responsibly. Access to clear financial education is key to this. We think that by making credit scores free and easy to understand and demystifying the myths which plague personal finance, we can help young people get on top of their money and live their life the way they want.
The research also shows variation across the country, with 58% of twenty somethings in London using credit to help cover the cost of their first child, compared to just 37% in Scotland. Just 48% of young Scots required credit to move out of their parents’ home compared to 58% of young Londoners.
If you want to find out more about credit scores and personal loans head on over to ClearScore.com.
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