MMI Consumer Distress Dashboard

Throughout our financial counseling process, MMI collects numerous data points from our clients and their credit reports. This aggregated, anonymized information helps us understand the financial health of people contacting us for assistance and predict future trends.

Our experts can provide context and offer deeper, state-level insights where disparity may exist on the local level.

Additionally, consumers counseled by MMI can discuss navigating financial challenges and how they successfully overcame them with the help of our debt management plan.

Over the last two years, several themes have emerged:

  • A steady increase in the number of consumers seeking financial counseling, particularly pronounced among younger adults.

MMI trends - volume by age.


  • Growth in the total level of unsecured debt our new clients carry at the time they contact MMI.

MMI trends - unsecured debt.


  • Larger monthly household deficits (income minus all expenses) despite increasing monthly income.

MMI trends - debt and income.


MMI trends - US map.

Media Inquiries

To learn more about our data or interview a financial expert, please reach out to:

 

Thomas Nitzsche
Sr. Director, Media and Brand
404.490.2227
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