Citizens Advice Ipswich Quality and Performance Co-ordinator Contract: Permanent Salary: Circa £24,000 (based on relevant experience) Hours: 37 hours a week (part time considered) An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Quality & Performance Co-ordinator to join Citizens Advice Ipswich. This is a new role designed to support our diverse and growing […]
Continue ReadingLife as a Trainee Generalist Adviser at Citizen’s Advice Over the past few months, I have undertaken a rigorous amount of training in which I have amassed knowledge of several key enquiry areas such as employment, benefits, debt, housing, consumer, family, and personal relationships. I had done volunteering before, but never did I imagine the […]
Continue ReadingANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Ipswich and District Citizen’s Advice Bureau is holding its 47th Annual General Meeting on: Thursday 4th November 2021 at 2pm in 19 Tower Street, Ipswich, IP1 3BE. The AGM will take place between 2pm – 2.45pm. Copies of the bureau’s annual report and accounts will be made available at the AGM. The AGM is an open meeting but in […]
Continue ReadingUniversal Credit cut: Everything you need to know Over the last few weeks, people claiming Universal Credit will have received notifications about a cut to their benefits this autumn. Benefits experts at Citizens Advice Ipswich, which is campaigning against the cut, set out what this means for claimants. When will the cut happen? As it […]
Continue ReadingOne in 10 Buy Now Pay Later shoppers have been chased by debt collectors, rising to one in eight young people, Citizens Advice is warning. Millions of shoppers in the UK use Buy Now Pay Later to split or delay payments. But Citizens Advice fears for many people it can be a slippery slope into […]
Continue ReadingHousing issues surge as end of the eviction ban nears 01/06/2021 Increasing numbers of private tenants are turning to Citizens Advice for help, just as the protections put in place for renters during the pandemic came to an end in England. Citizens Advice’s online housing advice has been viewed over 2 million times in the […]
Continue ReadingCitizens Advice responds to FCA announcement on loyalty penalty in insurance markets Matthew Upton, Director of Policy at Citizens Advice, said: “It’s more than two years since we submitted our super-complaint on the £4 billion-a-year loyalty penalty paid by consumers across the mortgages, savings, mobile, insurance and broadband markets. We’re pleased to see the FCA […]
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