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CAB enquiries still increasing; disability benefits and urgent debts show biggest surge
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:09:00 GMT
Citizens Advice Bureaux across England and Wales dealt with 6% more benefits problems during the three months April-June 2010, then they did in the same period last year.
Uniform costs keep adding up as schools ignore guidance on affordability
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:01:00 GMT
Schools are adding to recession-stressed parents? financial woes by ignoring government guidance* on keeping down the cost of school uniform, national charity Citizens Advice said today
Spending Review: Make life simpler and fairer not harder for most vulnerable, urges Citizens Advice
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:01:00 GMT
In its submission to the Government?s Spending Review, national problem solving charity Citizens Advice is urging the government to focus on tackling unnecessary and costly bureaucracy and poor standards
Citizens Advice response to ban on cowboy clampers
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:08:00 GMT
We are extremely pleased that the government has decided to deal with the scourge of clamping and towing on private land
Citizens Advice response to CML repossession figures
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:47:00 GMT
While it is good news that numbers are down, is still worrying that 9,400 households have been repossessed

Citizens Advice News Archive

9: Latest CAB figures show increasing demand for services
10-06-2009 12:33:00 - Citizens Advice Bureaux in England and Wales have seen large and rising increases in debt, employment and benefits related enquiries over the last year, the annual Citizens Advice parliamentary reception will be told today ...
10: Gap in financial help for over 50s
9-06-2009 12:22:00 - A Citizens Advice pilot project which has seen Independent Financial Advisers (IFA) give their time pro-bono in bureaux to advise CAB clients on their financial concerns, has exposed a gap in the availability of impartial help for people who can’t affor
11: Citizens Advice announces new national Chair
8-06-2009 12:15:00 - As the recession drives more and more people to Citizens Advice Bureaux, their national body Citizens Advice has announced that its next Chair will be John Gladwin, the soon-to-retire Bishop of Chelmsford ...
12: Citizens Advice response to FSA regulating Sale and Rent Back companies
4-06-2009 12:03:34 - We have seen where the sale and rent back sector has caused considerable detriment in the past. While sale and rent back agreements might be the right thing for some people, Citizens Advice Bureaux have reported numerous cases where bad practice has resul
13: Volunteers Week: Opportunities at your local CAB
4-06-2009 12:01:58 - During National Volunteers' Week (1-7 June 2009) Citizens Advice, which relies on the generous contribution of volunteers, is calling on anyone who has considered volunteering to get in touch ...
14: Citizens Advice response to OFT’s Debt Management Cold Calling warning
04 Jun 2009 12:01:11 GMT - This is absolutely the kind of prompt and decisive action needed to tackle rogues taking advantage of the downturn ...
15: Citizens Advice celebrates success in closing shameful Employment Tribunal loophole
04 Jun 2009 12:00:26 GMT - Eight years after it first highlighted a shameful loophole in the Employment Tribunal system which means that thousands of successful Employment Tribunal claimants never receive their money, Citizens Advice is at last celebrating success ...
16: Letting agent charges out of control - Citizens Advice report
04 Jun 2009 11:59:16 GMT - Private tenants are being badly let down by a system that allows letting agents to operate completely unchecked, routinely ripping off tenants by imposing unjustified and excessive charges and providing a poor or non-existent service, a new report from Ci

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