Citizens Advice awarded £33m for debt help

The extra money will make it possible for Citizens Advice to recruit and train an additional 370 full-time specialist debt advisers, which will mean around 100,000 more people on very low incomes and facing serious debt problems can be helped through in-depth casework. The funding comes from the government’s £45m Financial Inclusion Fund and nearly 200 bureaux across England and Wales will be involved, many of them working with other free, independent advice providers such as Advice UK. David Harker, Citizens Advice chief executive, says: “Day in, day out, our advisers see evidence of h...