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by Ruth Mendel, CAS Financial Health team.

This article was first published in the Herald on 10 February 2021.

by Kate Morrison, CAS Strategic Lead for Fair Markets

This column was first published in the Herald on 03 February 2021.

Citizens Advice Scotland has welcomed today’s report from the Social Renewal Advisory Board, and has urged the Scottish Government to work towards some of its key recommendations.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has welcomed confirmation from the First Minister that the Scottish Government intend to extend the current ban on most evictions until at least the 31st March 2021, but warned further support is needed for tenants to keep their homes beyond that date.

Citizens Advice Scotland is warning of a council tax debt ‘explosion’ as the impact of the pandemic makes a bad situation even worse in 2021 as clients have racked up millions in arrears.

by Derek Mitchell, Chief Executive of CAS.

This article first appeared in the Herald on 9 December.

The Citizens Advice network in Scotland unlocked a staggering £170 million for people in financial year 2019/20, annual figures show.

Citizens Advice Scotland has expressed disappointment that the Chancellor today failed to confirm whether the temporary £20-per-week increase to Universal Credit will be made permanent beyond March 2021.

Almost half (47 per cent) of people in Scotland have run out of money before payday since Covid-19 restrictions began, new research for Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has revealed, with nearly 1 in 3 (30 per cent) of those people seeing their finances worsen.