Personal budgeting and support
We want to advise and support you if you are having financial problems which may be making it difficult for you to pay your rent as well as your other essential bills. Our free and confidential budgeting service can help with this.
We can:
- check that you are claiming all the benefits that you are entitled to
- help you claim housing benefit or a council tax reduction
- draw up a formal financial statement by looking at your income and expenditure
- help with a household budget and ensure that you know which bills are priorities
- assist with a plan to manage your debts better
- advise you on Court procedures and help you to reply to Court documents
- assist you with bailiffs
- introduce you to other agencies that may be able to help you further, such as the Citizens Advice Bureau and Step Change
The key thing is to try to deal with the problem quickly so please ask our staff for help as soon as you can. Our telephone number is 01423 500600.
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