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Money advice
We help our tenants to get the most out of their lives by supporting them with money management and developing their skills.
If you’re one of our customers, you can get free and confidential support and advice from our trained advisors.
Our services
Our range of services helps you to claim the benefits you’re entitled to, deal with debt and manage your money. We can help you to:
- claim the benefits you’re entitled to
- deal with benefit problems
- deal with debt problems
- manage your money and budget for the things you need.
Our team can give you details about things like bank accounts, savings and loans and credit unions. Watch our film to get more details about our services:
Universal Credit
Universal Credit is a major change to the benefits systems. If you make a claim or you want more details about Universal Credit, please contact our Universal Credit support team.
We have developed some useful information about Universal Credit.
You can also find out about the benefits you could be eligible for on the benefits calculator.
Who we’ve helped
We have helped all sorts of people to make the most of their money. You can read about some of the people we’ve helped with:
Make an appointment
You can arrange an appointment to speak to one of our advisors or just contact us for more information.
When you have an appointment, please have the following information at hand to help us give you the best advice we can:
- details of all income, including wages, benefits, tax credits
- latest bank statements
- details of savings
- details of all expenditure including rent, council tax, food, transport, utility bills, phones
- details of debtors, who is the debt with, how much is owed, any letters, bailiff letters, court papers or demands for payment
- all letters from government departments such as DWP, Job Centre or local council
- National Insurance number.
Ask for the money advice team by:
- contacting us
- speaking to your neighbourhood officer or customer service advisor at your local neighbourhood office.
- text MONEY and your query to: 0787 613 7679.