The level of debt contracted by Mauritian household have witnessed a drastic increase over the past few years. Observations carried out point that there is an increasing number of indebted household who are facing difficulties in repaying their debt. No attempt has been made to assess the severity of this problem among Mauritian household. The objective of this study is to: identify why Mauritian household contract debt, to estimate the level of debt contracted by Mauritian household and to make policy recommendation on how to tackle the problem of over- indebtedness.