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  • Wessex Water – help with water bills and services

    Posted on July 16, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Advice sector news, Featured organisations. Tagged debt, debt advice, local advice, water

    Wessex Water have announced a new online application form to help customers with their water and sewerage bills and services. Wessex Water now have an online application form for customers…

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  • Welfare reform: Lessons learned

    Posted on June 5, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Advice sector news, Social policy. Tagged welfare, welfare reforms, funding cuts, universal credit, social policy, employment, DWP, job centres, benefits

    The National Audit Office has requested that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) will need to use the hard lessons that it has learned from the recent implementation of welfare…

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  • Job Opportunity – North Somerset Citizens Advice Bureau Chief Executive

    Posted on May 6, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Advice sector news. Tagged north somerset CAB, job vacancy

    Location: North Somerset CAB, Weston-Super-Mare, North Somerset Salary: £32,072 – £34,894 pa (dependent on experience) for a 37 hr 5 day week A unique opportunity to join a successful advice…

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  • DIY justice?

    Posted on April 23, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Finding advice, Advice sector news, Social policy. Tagged benefits, advice, debt

    Following the cuts to legal aid two years ago, increasing numbers of people find themselves without legal advice or representation when they are faced with a legal problem. In April…

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  • Keeping in touch with changes in money and benefits

    Posted on April 9, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Finding advice, Advice sector news. Tagged benefits, money management, debt, news

      There are a lot of ways to keep up to date with changes in the world of advice. One of the quickest ways to do this is sign up…

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  • Pension Wise: what will the new freedoms mean for your clients?

    Posted on March 9, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Advice sector news. Tagged money management, pensions, pensionwise

    The government is launching a new service called Pension Wise to provide guidance on how to make the most of new pensions freedoms. The 2014 Budget announced that the way people…

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  • £300k Advice Gap: The Implications and Possible Solutions

    Posted on February 6, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Advice sector news, Advice North Somerset. Tagged Advice North Somerset, welfare, advice, welfare reforms, legal aid, funding cuts

    There have been unprecedented changes on a nationwide scale in recent years. Both the implementation of legal aid cuts and welfare reform (including Universal Credit) have created the ‘perfect storm’…

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  • The Big Advice Survey has launched – Get involved and tell YOUR story!

    Posted on January 30, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Advice sector news, Advice North Somerset. Tagged big advice survey, have your say, local, Advice North Somerset, welfare, advice

    Why do the survey? There have been unprecedented changes to the Social Welfare Law (SWL) advice world, with legal aid cuts, welfare reform and approximately 60% more cuts on their way.…

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  • Universal Credit roll-out in North Somerset

    Posted on December 18, 2014 by Diana Nicoll in Advice sector news.

    Universal Credit is a new benefit that will gradually replace these six existing means-tested benefits and tax credits: Income-related Jobseeker’s Allowance, Income-related Employment Support Allowance, Income Support, Housing Benefit, Child…

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  • Go4IT Scheme: First Round

    Posted on December 16, 2014 by Diana Nicoll in Advice sector news, Advice North Somerset. Tagged Advice North Somerset, computer help, digital inclusion, go4it

    Lottery scheme for public access IT to help with online benefit claims Applications are now open for organisations to receive IT hardware to support for members of the public with…

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