News : welfare benefits

Free legal advice is closer than ever to people living in rural communities in Northumberland and Cumbria, thanks to high-tech video phone advice booths installed by a leading Northern legal advice service.

DAWN Advice has teamed up with the Citizens Advice Bureaux in Alnwick, Carlisle, and Ulverston to offer on-site video booths which mean face-to-face conversations with qualified experts in debt, welfare...

Citizens Advice Bureaux across England and Wales dealt with 6% more benefits problems during the three months April-June 2010, then they did in the same period last year.

New figures show that in Q1 of this financial year (2010/11) the overall rise in welfare benefits enquiries was mainly due to large increases in advice on sickness and disability related benefits:

· Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)...