Citizens Advice

WITH an increasing number of people shopping online, Citizens Advice has raised concerns about the problems many people face with getting it delivered to their home. […]

THE demand locally for Citizens Advice continues to grow, with the number of people seeking advice from Bridport and District Citizens Advice, which includes Lyme Regis, having increased by 20 per cent in the last year. […]

CITIZENS Advice has raised concerns about the problems regularly caused to customers by their energy suppliers. […]

CITIZENS Advice has been celebrating its 80th birthday. It was formed in early September 1939, one day after the start of the Second World War, and ever since then it has been involved in providing free, confidential and independent advice. […]

IN addition to the help and support it provides each year to more than 2,000 people living locally, Citizens Advice campaigns hard to protect all consumers and has just had another notable success. […]

A LONG campaign by Citizens Advice has played a major part in securing a change in the law which will have big benefits for people who cannot afford to buy their own home and need to rent. […]

CITIZENS Advice, in its role as the official consumer champion for energy, has welcomed the decision by regulator Ofgem to announce new licensing rules for companies seeking to enter the energy supply market. […]

FROM the start of next week Bridport and District Citizens Advice will be stepping up the support it can give to local people who are having problems with Universal Credit, the new social security system replacing six means-tested benefits and tax credits with a single monthly payment. […]

IN addition to every year providing help for more than 2,000 people living in this area, the work of Citizens Advice helps our hard pressed local councils save a lot of money. […]

CITIZENS Advice is continuing to run two sessions a week in Lyme Regis which anyone is welcome to attend, even if they do not have an appointment. […]

CITIZENS Advice has welcomed an announcement from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it has decided to launch a major probe into the costs of funerals. […]

IT is almost a year since Universal Credit was introduced in West Dorset and since then a large number of people have contacted the local offices of Citizens Advice to help them sort out difficulties they are having with this new system. […]

CITIZENS Advice has just launched an innovative new project in conjunction with West Dorset Mencap, which aims to help people with learning difficulties and their families deal with any financial problems they may face. […]

CITIZENS Advice has raised concerns about aggressive tactics being used by bailiffs and wants to see better regulation of their activities. It has also highlighted the unfair practice of tenants in the private rented sector being subjected to revenge evictions as a result of raising a complaint. […]