Citizens Advice celebrates 70 years
Photo: CAB
The charity said it was currently handling around 9,300 new debt cases and
talking to 8,000 people with benefit problems every working day as the
recession continues to take its toll.
The group said the number of people contacting it because they were struggling
to keep up with their borrowings had increased by 27pc during the three
months to the end of June, while enquiries about benefits were up 22pc
compared with the same period the previous year.
It received a total of just under 1.7m enquiries during the second quarter,
17pc more than a year earlier.
Within the total, Citizens Advice said enquiries about job seekers’ allowance
had doubled, while redundancy-related problems were up by three-quarters due
to rising unemployment. …
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