Citizens Advice Scotland

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is warning that months of unaffordable energy bills will lead to a ‘debt trap’ for consumers across Scotland. The charity has published its latest Cost-of-Living Analysis, finding a clear link between people seeking advice on utilities and needing help with

The membership body for Scotland’s largest free advice network has called for more sustainable funding for advice, and multi-year funding to give advisers job security.

More than 1.3 million people in Scotland are struggling on their present income, new analysis from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) suggests.

The impact of higher mortgage costs has been revealed by new data from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS). The charity’s data report for June found that online page views for advice around schemes to help with mortgage payments increased by 88% between May and June, and 336% from June 2022 to June

Citizens Advice Scotland’s (CAS) chief executive Derek Mitchell said that those who fund advice services must do so on a sustained basis to allow the services to operate effectively. In a speech to a conference on the cost-of-living crisis, organised by the Glasgow Advice and Information Netwo

Demand for food bank advice across the Citizens Advice network increase by 11% in the year to April 2023, new data from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has revealed.

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.

The new energy price cap covering the period from July to the end of September 2023 is to be set at £2,074, Ofgem has announced today.

New analysis from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has revealed the impact CABs have on families at risk of poverty.

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

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is calling for a ban on landlords who evict tenants illegally as part of a five-point plan to strengthen the private rented sector.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is calling for a sea-change in support offered to people who are in debt and struggling with the mental health as the cost of living crisis surges. The charity is today publishing a new Good Practice guidance for creditors, to encourage them to foster more constructive

Citizens Advice Scotland has called on the energy regulator Ofgem to permanently ban energy companies from breaking into the homes of vulnerable consumers to install pre-payment meters. Supplier are entering the homes of consumers who are struggling to pay their bills – without their permissio

Millions of people in Scotland anticipate saving less during the cost of living crisis, new analysis from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) suggests.

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