citizens advice exeter

Today is Pension Awareness Day and Citizens Advice Exeter is encouraging people to plan earlier for a comfortable retirement.

The leading local advice charity says that many people find pensions confusing and can be put off by complex language and paperwork, leaving their retirement plans to the last minute.

Previous research from national Citizens Advice shows that one in four people with a defined contribution pension feel they don’t understand their pension plan.

The research also finds people aren’t checking their pension, with just under a quarter of people not...

Citizens Advice Exeter, today said it was concerned about an increases in enquiries about welfare benefits, employment and housing.

In the first four-months of the financial year the charity helped 14% more people when compared to the same period in 2015.

The advice trends over the period were as follows:

Housing Overall, the charity dealt with 10.9% more housing enquiries. The main increases being:

• 94.7% about housing association properties • 77.2% about actual homelessness • 7.0% about threatened homelessness

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A team of walkers from leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, raised £846.25 when they took part in the Exeter Legal Walk on the 6th June.

The Exeter Legal Walk celebrates the continued work of the legal profession and advice sector in protecting people’s rights and promoting equal access to justice for all. The Legal Walk is one of over 30 similar events which run across England and Wales raising funds for free local legal advice charities.

The event was run by the South West Legal Support Trust, part of a network of Legal Support Trusts working with the...

Leading local advice charity, Citizens Advice Exeter, is delighted to announce that Cartridges Law will be joining its successful legal clinic scheme.

The legal clinic scheme enables CAB clients to access free legal advice from local law firms. Cartridges Law will be providing CAB clients with specialist housing advice.

Citizens Advice Chief Executive Steve Barriball said: “We are delighted that Cartridges Law will be joining our legal clinic scheme. This has proved very popular with clients who are otherwise unable to afford legal fees. We are particularly delighted to...