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More than 200 maids in debt seek help after loan cap takes effect

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Just over a week after new limits on how much foreign workers can borrow took effect, more than 200 Filipino maids turned up at voluntary welfare organisation Blessed Grace Social Services (BGSS) in Ubi on Sunday.
All had taken varying amounts of loans from moneylenders and were struggling to pay back the money.
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