in arrears
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The latest mortgage-arrears data, via the Canadian Bankers Association, suggest 0.26% of Canadian mortgages are in arrears as of the end of 2025, up from a low of 0.14% in the fall of 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026
Inflation also undermines the value of Social Security payments, because the annual cost-of-living adjustments come a year in arrears.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026
They included a couple now £13,000 in arrears on a home they bought, and a woman who faced the repossession of a house she left following a marriage breakdown 15 years earlier.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
The Bureau of Economic Analysis is also deeply in arrears in terms of data release, having last published its PCE inflation report for the month of August on Sept. 26.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
The pews were decrepit, the bills were once so in arrears the electricity was nearly turned off, and the padre hadn’t installed air-conditioning, despite summer temperatures that reach 120 degrees.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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