Responding to the Chancellor’s Budget on March 6th 2024, Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, said: “Today the Chancellor supported people in the most dire situations by abolishing fees for Debt Relief Orders. These unaffordable fees have priced people out of getting the support they need as 9 in 10 people with a…
Citizens Advice Ipswich and other community support organisations are anxiously awaiting the Government’s Spring Budget set for 6 March to discover the future of the Household Support Fund which has supported thousands of households across Suffolk with food, fuel and other essential items. This fund has been a vital resource to prevent low-income families slide…
Alarming new research from Citizens Advice has found that five million people are in a negative budget, as the charity warns a living standards catastrophe is becoming the new normal ahead of the general election. The charity’s new analysis shows that the number of people in the red has jumped from 3.25 million since the…
