The TransUnion credit bureau has found that card delinquencyacross all card issuers is creeping higher.

The firm reported that bank card delinquency rate (the ratio ofbank card borrowers 90 days or more delinquent on one or more oftheir bank cards) increased to 1.32% in the first quarter of 2009,up 9.10% over the previous quarter. Year-over-year, bankcarddelinquencies increased 11.00% from 1.19% to 1.32%

Incidents of bank card delinquency were highest in Nevada(2.44%), followed closely by Florida (1.9%) and Arizona (1.68%).The lowest bank card delinquency rates were in North Dakota(0.73%), South Dakota (0.77%) and Alaska (0.77%). The District ofColumbia saw a quarter-over-quarter drop of 11.8% in bank carddelinquency.

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