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February round-up
Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead February 2016. What we’ve been up to. Community liaison Surrey Armed Forces Community Covenant Building awareness Meeting Point Tadworth Justice needs a home Confirmation Redhill and Reigate courts will close Surrey CC budget settlement Our vice-chair of trustees makes a point PIP – new online help Step-by-step guide to making […]
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Hosting Surrey policy group
Citizens Advice Reigate & Banstead has hosted colleagues from nine CA offices in Surrey at a meeting on policy research and campaigns. Not everyone knows Citizens Advice does this work as well as providing the best (and best-known) advice service in the country. The purpose is to use our advisers’ wide experience of people’s problems to help councils, businesses and other […]
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Universal Credit on the agenda
Top of the agenda at a meeting on 24 February of Redhill Citizens Advice volunteers was how to advise clients on claiming Universal Credit. The new benefit reached Surrey for the first time this month. It replaces six existing working age benefits which will be gradually phased out. To begin with just a small number of […]
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Meeting Point date
Tadworth hears the Citizens Advice message. Meeting Point provides a wide range of highly-valued services in Tadworth. So it was natural to invite our community link person Helen Howe to explain the support we offer to all if problems arise. Attending the meeting on 25 February were representatives of toddlers and carers groups, arts and […]
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Armed forces support
Citizens Advice at Community Covenant local services briefing Our armed service personnel deserve the support of the whole nation. In Reigate & Banstead we make sure help is there through the Surrey Armed Services Community Covenant. Citizens Advice is signed-up and on Tuesday our senior debt caseworker Mandy Impey was a speaker at a Covenant event organised by R&BBC in the Old […]
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PIP: online help for filling in THAT form.
Good news for anyone who needs to claim Personal Independence Payment. Citizens Advice has released a really helpful guide to completing the questionnaire that so often leaves people scratching their heads about the information needed. The guide covers each question in detail and will make life easier both for people applying on their own and advisers helping clients. Most important, according to the Citizens Advice […]
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Money advice is everywhere but nowhere
More financial capability is the aim of new research from Citizens Advice. Managing money well has never been more challenging – or more important. Advice is everywhere: in banks, online, TV and radio, newspapers and advertisements. What’s often missing is the help people actually need, when they need it. The preventative advice gap from the Citizens Advice research team […]
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Universal Credit arrives in Reigate & Banstead this month
There will be winners and losers as the new system is introduced. A report published today by the respected Institute of Fiscal Studies* is recommended by Citizens Advice as “a decent unbiased assessment”. We agree. Everyone wants the new combined benefit to succeed. Whether in work or looking for a job, millions of citizens have an interest […]
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Benefit changes from April 2016
Important changes to benefits and pensions take effect in April. Benefits Housing Benefit, Family Premium, Savings Credit, Assessed Income Periods Pensions Introduction to the new State Pension. BENEFIT CHANGES FROM APRIL 2016
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‘Leafy’ Surrey?
Stereotype conceals genuine poverty and distress. Emergency payments and food banks are now facts of life in Reigate & Banstead. Our experience at Citizens Advice and information from Surrey Local Assistance Scheme (LAS) show not everyone is well-off in our prosperous county – in fact quite the reverse. Every week from October to December 2015 […]
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