Citizens Advice Scotland

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The Citizens Advice network in Scotland helped more than 23,000 families at risk from poverty in the past year, new data from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) reveals. The Scottish Government has identified several groups particularly vulnerable to child poverty, including single-parent families, fami

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Demand for advice around illegal eviction in the private rented sector jumped by 42% in the Scottish CAB network over the course of the year to this summer, according to new data released today by Citizens Advice Scotland.

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People across Scotland are at a ‘crisis point’ Citizens Advice Scotland has warned, as it published new figures showing surging demand for advice around crisis grants from the Scottish Welfare Fund. Crisis grants are payments provided by local authorities to help people cover the cost of

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Energy regulator Ofgem has today announced a further reduction in the energy price cap for the last quarter of 2023. The change will bring the average dual-fuel energy bill below £2,000 a year for the first time since April 2022, saving households an average of £151 on the previous quart

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The impact of higher mortgage costs has been revealed by new data from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS). The charity’s data report for June found that online page views for advice around schemes to help with mortgage payments increased by 88% between May and June, and 336% from June 2022 to June

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Citizens Advice Scotland’s (CAS) chief executive Derek Mitchell said that those who fund advice services must do so on a sustained basis to allow the services to operate effectively. In a speech to a conference on the cost-of-living crisis, organised by the Glasgow Advice and Information Netwo

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Volunteers in Citizens Advice Bureaux across Scotland have been worth more than £17 million since the pandemic, new analysis from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has found. Since April 2020 volunteers in CABs across Scotland have contributed the equivalent of £17,164,222 in hours.

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