arrears

How To Use arrears In A Sentence

• The payments on that car loan are in arrears by three months.
• By ‘real’ stress I mean when the bank heavies are actually knocking on your door and it's pay up time on the arrears on the house payments.
• After paying emergency tax he found himself almost a third worse off than when he was on benefits and was summoned to court for council tax arrears. Times, Sunday Times
• You will be paid a basic salary of £4,000 per annum, payable in arrears, on the last working Friday of each calendar month.
• The paper reported that in Nakuru, more than 350 employees went on a go-slow to protest the delay in paying salary arrears and allowances.
• However, after changes in the housing benefit regulations, his substantial income dropped and he fell into arrears with mortgage payments.
• At any one time perhaps 5% of borrowers are in arrears, with a higher percentage having been in arrears at some time since purchase. Home-ownership - differentiation and fragmentation
• Utility bills, rent arrears and council tax may also be excluded. Times, Sunday Times
• It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain a quittance from the past. Les Miserables
• It also said lenders should use payments from borrowers to clear their arrears before forcing them to pay charges. Times, Sunday Times