Citizens Advice Scotland

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Volunteers in Citizens Advice Bureaux across Scotland have been worth more than £17 million since the pandemic, new analysis from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has found. Since April 2020 volunteers in CABs across Scotland have contributed the equivalent of £17,164,222 in hours.

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March 2023 was a month of unprecedented demand for advice across the Citizens Advice network in Scotland. Citizens Advice Bureaux (CABs) helped people more than 100,000 times in a single month, the highest on record for individual pieces of advice given. The month also saw the highest number of peop

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The Citizens Advice network in Scotland helped people with energy issues more than 12,000 times in February, new data from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has revealed. In total, the CAB network issued advice on gas and electricity 12,386 times in February. Gas and electricity remained the single top

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The latest poverty and income inequality statistics expose endemic bias in Scotland’s broken housing system, Shelter Scotland has said. The housing and homelessness charity has called for urgent action to deliver more social homes, which it says is the only way to address Scotland’s

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Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has today said it endorses the call made by Citizens Advice (England and Wales) and other partners for a new social tariff to be applied to energy consumers, which would see some consumers receive up to £1,500 more per year in financial help. The proposal is esse

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