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New research by Citizens Advice shows the charity is now helping one person every minute with problems relating to renting from a private landlord.
In the first two months of this year, the charity saw a 40% increase in people seeking one-to-one advice on issues relating to the private rented

Coventry Citizens Advice is calling for people to take a closer look at their debt problems and get some advice, as part of a nationwide Debt Awareness Week campaign. It estimates that over 26,000 people in Coventry may need some form of debt advice over the next 12-36 months.
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The Prime Minister has announced a national lockdown and instructed people to stay at home to control the virus, protect the NHS and save lives.
The decision follows a rapid rise in infections, hospital admissions and case rates across the country, and our hospitals are now under more pressure than

With the number of people on zero-hour contracts at an all time high of 1 million, a leading charity has warned of an unfolding workers’ rights crisis.
New research from Citizens Advice found agency workers and those on zero-hours contracts, including “gig economy” workers, were more likely to have seen

Services provided by Coventry Citizens Advice will be closed over the Xmas Break. Re-opening times for individual core and project services are detailed below.
Core Services will be closed on Xmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. However, clients will be able to access telephone advice, via Advice Line,

Citizens Advice has continued to see a surge in the number of people it is helping who have No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) during the pandemic.
In the nine months since the pandemic began, the charity has seen a 91% year-on-year increase in the levels of advice given on

New research from Citizens Advice shows that 2.1million households are behind on their energy bills, 600,000 more than in February.
The charity’s research also reveals a quarter of all energy customers – that’s up to seven million households – worry they won’t be able to pay their bill this winter.

Some one in seven (14%) of people have fallen behind on essential bills – including energy, water, mobile phone and broadband bills, council tax, rent or mortgage payments – the equivalent of seven million people in the UK, according to new research from Citizens Advice.
A poll of 6,004 people,

Coventry Citizens Advice (CCA) continues to serve its community despite a second national ‘lockdown’.
Despite the second national lockdown CCA continues to provide much needed information, advice and guidance to those who need it. Core and project services are still accessible either via the telephone, email or in some circumstances,

The Government has published new guidelines describing ‘lockdown’ restrictions which will apply to England from November 5, 2020. Below are those guidelines as laid out on Gov.uk.
New guidelines summarised below will apply nationally for four weeks up to Wednesday 2 December. At the end of the period, the