More than half of Portuguese consumers used credit to pay bills during the previous six months. The report says this payment method was especially common among people with below-average incomes. In that group, 73% used credit to meet bill payments. The figures show that consumer credit was a common way of handling bills across a broad section of the population. The excerpt does not identify the lenders, credit products or types of bills included in the measure. It also offers no comparison with the same period in the previous year. Details on the size of the debts and the reasons consumers turned to credit were not provided.