Advice
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Money Clinic
We now hold a special Money Clinic from Monday to Friday from 10am-11am, to help local people who are affected by the credit crunch.
Click here for more information on the Money Clinic
Please check out the new CAB online service www.adviceguide.org.uk for:
- practical, reliable, up-to-date information on a wide range of topics, including benefits, housing, employment and debt, consumer and legal issues
- details of reliable sources of advice if you need more help, including your local CAB
- information in English, Welsh, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu and Chinese
- useful factsheets to print off
Client going bankrupt as rents home, divorcing and has no assets. Her debts total £85,000 and are mostly loans and store cards. She was self employed as well as an employee, but her employer left the country owing client significant amount of wages, and there is now no prospect of her recovering these. Client has literacy problems and is also very volatile, she has 19 creditors and often has arguments with them and gets very distressed by this. She is also sometimes rude to her adviser, due to the high emotional charge the situation holds for her.
