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Pessimism over personal debt has grown more among Albertans than other Canadians, states a poll conducted for a financial advisory firm.

Albertans’ confidence in what their financial health would be a year from now fell 12 points since September, the biggest decrease in the country, according to the MNP Consumer Index that’s compiled quarterly by pollster Ipsos.

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Those in the province who consider themselves worse off financially now compared to five years ago increased by five per cent to 28 per cent, say figures from the poll conducted among 2,000 respondents across Canada in early December.

And 28 per cent of Albertans say they’re currently insolvent, or can’t meet all their fiscal obligations while 47 per cent say they are $200 or less away from insolvency at the end of a month.

Economic uncertainty spawned by the oil price collapse five years ago continues to linger, said Donna Carson, a Calgary-based licensed insolvency trustee with MNP Ltd.