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2 Feb 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland has welcomed the Scottish Government’s announcement of more support for people facing funeral poverty.
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30 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland is today publishing a new guide for how organisations can take the public with them when planning new building developments or other activities.
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29 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland have welcomed news that Ofgem is making energy giant Ovo pay a settlement package of £8.9m for failing to bill its customers correctly.
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28 Jan 2020
Applications for crisis grants from the Scottish Welfare Fund are soaring, with a 16 per cent increase compared to last year, official statistics show.
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27 Jan 2020
The UK and the European Union (EU) have reached an agreement on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, a process known as Brexit. This means that the UK will leave the EU with a deal at 11pm GMT on Friday 31 January 2020.
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25 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is calling on people who rely on electricity to heat their homes to seek advice on how they can save on their energy bills as new figures show a jump in the number of electric-only households in fuel poverty.
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25 Jan 2020
by Dr Jamie Stewart, CAS Head of Fair Markets policy
This opinion column first appeared in the Herald newspaper on 25 January 2020.
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22 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has urged credit card providers to show sensitivity and flexibility towards customers in persistent debt as new rules begin to come into force this month which allow them to impose sanctions.
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21 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is encouraging people to seek advice on energy issues, with over half a million homes in Scotland in fuel poverty.
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20 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is today (Monday) launching Big Energy Saving Week, revealing that the Citizens Advice network helped people save more than £200 on their energy bills on average last year.
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13 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has responded to the Scottish Government's publication of the first statistics related to the recently-introduced Young Carer Grant.
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13 Jan 2020
The Scottish Government is increasing the amount of free early learning and childcare from August 2020.
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13 Jan 2020
by Myles Fitt, CAS Financial Health spokesperson
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9 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is today (Thursday) calling for a ‘fundamental overhaul’ of Universal Credit.
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6 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is reminding people today that the sharing of intimate images or video without a person’s consent is a crime in Scotland.
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6 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has cautiously welcomed changes to credit card rules due to come into force in 2020 but has a financial health warning for people who are not paying off their credit cards.
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3 Jan 2020
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is today calling for an increase in funding to help make Scottish homes more energy efficient.
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27 Dec 2019
The Citizens Advice network in Scotland has unlocked financial gains worth almost £1.3 billion for people in the past decade.
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13 Dec 2019
Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is highlighting a service change which will affect pre-payment energy customers in the New Year. The change will affect everyone who uses a Scottish Gas top-up key or card.
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5 Dec 2019
As people across Scotland use delivery companies for their Christmas shopping, Citizens Advice Scotland is calling on post and parcel companies to improve their processes for dealing with consumer complaints.
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Brexit: We've produced advice on what Brexit means for people living in Scotland. We'll keep updating our advice as more Brexit changes are announced.
