The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice, and by influencing policymakers.
Every Citizens Advice Bureau is a registered charity reliant on trained volunteers and funds to provide these vital services for local communities.
Social security is the second largest problem area for Citizens Advice Bureaux dealt with more over 1.5 million new problems in 2007/08. Clients seek assistance with establishing eligibility, making benefit claims, chasing applications progress and appealing against decisions.
| Title | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Child benefit delays: The impact on CAB clients | Citizens Advice Evidence Briefing | 07-01-2010 |
| Limited capability | 07-12-2009 | |
| Barriers to work | Citizens Advice evidence briefing on lone parents and the challenges of working. | 05-11-2008 |
| Tax credits client and adviser experience | Citizens Advice evidence briefing. | 20-05-2008 |
| Tax credits: The current picture | Citizens Advice evidence briefing. | 09-10-2007 |
| Not getting through | CAB evidence on the new system for claiming benefits from Jobcentre Plus. | 19-07-2007 |
| Single room rent - the case for abolition | Citizens Advice report | 21-12-2006 |
| Welfare Foods and Healthy Start | Citizens Advice briefing | 08-12-2006 |
| What the doctor ordered? | Citizens Advice briefing | 02-03-2006 |
| Banking Benefits | Citizens Advice report | 26-01-2006 |
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