DEPUTY Finance Minister Datuk Ahmad Maslan recently highlighted the worrying hike in the number of young people below the age of 35 being declared bankrupt.
According to him, the number of bankruptcy cases in this age group has been growing steadily for the past three years – 4,100 (2012), 5,420 (2013) and 5,497 (2014). So far, 948 cases have been reported in the first quarter of this year.
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