It has less than $18bn £10.9bnn) in hard currency reserves, its currency is dropping and immediate debt-repayment needs are more than $10bn.
He pointed to the availability of green deal loans for these measures, under which the repayments needed should be less than the energy bill savings delivered by the insulation.
As well as putting a limit on your spending, the card provider will stipulate a minimum monthly repayment you need to make.
Yet this possibly London-centric view underestimates the sheer scale of debts already accumulated and, after a brief period of repayment, the need to feed consumption with debt.
However, any minimum repayment would need to ensure it did not hurt disadvantaged or vulnerable consumers or push them towards riskier borrowing such as payday lending.
At the same time, perhaps sweetened by some decent pay-off behind the scenes (public money for her state; a freeze on some debt repayments?) she needs the cover to be able to quietly support Mr Singh's changes.
If you are using a mortgage, monthly repayments also need to be taken into consideration.
"If you are struggling with your repayments, you need to act.
As a secret report for the government has revealed, in order to make sure the student loan book is profitable for private companies the cap on interest for repayments would need to be increased or removed all together.
In the short term, with Greek banks closed and fast running out of cash, ATM withdrawals limited to a daily €60, and the government unable to meet debt repayments, Athens also needs short-term bridging loans to tide it through the next few weeks.
