When you think about domestic abuse, you might think of physical violence. Controlling a person’s access to money, though, is one insidious way that some people intimidate and isolate those they seek to coerce. It also appears to be rising.
Charity Surviving Economic Abuse reports that its website has seen a 150% uptick in people accessing its site between 2021 and 2023. It also states that seven in 10 front line professionals said that the number of victims of economic abuse coming to their organisations for help had increased since the onset of the Covid pandemic.