During the pandemic, most households had higher incomes.
The debt-to-income ratio went down significantly during the pandemic.
We see a few factors in what happened. There was less opportunity to spend money during the pandemic, so we had quite a reduction in household debt. Households were paying down their debt. They were also bringing some savings and putting them into cash and deposits. At the same time, with the measures to support households, incomes were rising as well.
