{"id":67,"date":"2016-05-12T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/cabwhabac\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2024-11-22T16:08:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T16:08:46","slug":"energy-advice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/energy-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Debt, Money Management and Energy Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are struggling to manage your money (i.e. paying your water bills or other household bills, credit cards or other consumer debts) and would like some advice from one of our expert money advice caseworkers, contact us. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/contact-us\/\">Contact Us<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: revert; color: initial;\">When contacting us, please make sure you have\u00a0information about your income (wages,\u00a0benefit awards, pensions and other income) and a list of your regular expenses (such as rent,\u00a0council tax, gas\/electricity, water etc.). Our\u00a0Budget Tool\u00a0can help you with this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can also access lots of useful information on our\u00a0Debt and Money Advice Guide pages.<\/p>\n<p>Clients who have debts or have difficulty managing their money are assisted to look\u00a0at their current Income and Expenditure (budget). We then identify whether they can\u00a0save any money in order to reduce their expenditure and\/or maximise their income.<\/p>\n<p>We also provide advice on benefits\/tax credits and look at other ways in which\u00a0clients can maximise their income.<\/p>\n<p>Worcester City has a fuel poverty rate of 12%, compared to 10.4%\u00a0nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The County of Worcestershire has the second highest fuel poverty\u00a0rate when compared with its statistical neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>Worcester CAB and WHABAC provide:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advice on utility\/energy\/fuel issues to individuals.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Advice on how comparing fuel tariff\u2019s and finding the best deal\u00a0for you.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Advice on how to switch suppliers after finding the best deal.<\/li>\n<li>Energy Awareness Training Sessions in the community for\u00a0consumers and frontline workers of other charitable\u00a0organisations.<\/li>\n<li>These sessions raise awareness of the potential savings made\u00a0by switching or negotiating with fuel providers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please ask at one of our drop in sessions, telephone our advice line\u00a0or telephone our Money Management Adviser, Steve Hemming on\u00a001905 744578.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cabwhabac.org.uk\/index.php\/our-local-services-2\/\">Back to Our local Services<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are struggling to manage your money (i.e. paying your water bills or other household bills, credit cards or other consumer debts) and would like some advice from one of our expert money advice caseworkers, contact us. See our Contact Us page. When contacting us, please make sure you have\u00a0information about your income (wages,\u00a0benefit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizensadviceworcester.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}