A Hartlepool advice service helped more than 4,600 people in the last year including almost 1,000 with debts totalling £6.5million.
Citizens Advice Hartlepool says the level of debt people are dealing with has not gone down over the last 12 months and can have a devastating impact including people losing their homes.
Christopher Akers-Belcher. Picture by FRANK REID
Managers also say a large amount of their time was spent helping people to deal with the impact of Government changes to their benefits including supporting claimants to appeal decisions.
It also helped clients save over £2million from a combination of switching energy providers, alerting them to unclaimed benefits, debts written off or debt relief or…
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