Updated:
08/03/2011
Stoke-on-Trent CAB - a registered charity & Company Limited by Guarantee
© Stoke CAB 2004 - 2008
successful
In 2009/10 Stoke on Trent Citizens Advice Bureau advised 9,726 local people 30,569 times on 35,381 brand new advice issues:
- 39% of all new issues were about debt, 27% were about social security benefits and
10% concerned immigration or asylum issues.
- 2,416 complex debt cases were opened (22% more than in 2008/9) and
420 people received help with benefit tribunals (46% more than in 2008/9)
- 505 people were given specialist housing advice (14% more than in 2008/9) and
165 were helped at Court.
- Local people were helped to claim £4.9 million worth of previously unclaimed social security benefits and to manage
£23 million worth of debt.
