{"id":74874,"date":"2011-09-04T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/citizens-advice-cuts-threaten-the-most-vulnerable\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T08:03:23","slug":"citizens-advice-cuts-threaten-the-most-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/citizens-advice-cuts-threaten-the-most-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens Advice cuts threaten the most vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nImpending cutbacks mean Citizens Advice cannot offer help and advice when it is needed mostAshleigh Atkinson has come to the Cambridge city branch of Citizens Advice to collect a food voucher. Once the voucher has been completed by his adviser, Harriet, he can take it to the nearby food bank and collect a box of provisions that will keep him going for three days.”There are two food banks in Cambridge,” says Rachel Talbot, chief executive of the Cambridge CAB. “I think it’s worrying that, in a city like this, we’re handing out food vouchers. A couple of years ago it would have been one voucher a week, but now it’s one a day.” Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Impending cutbacks mean Citizens Advice cannot offer help and advice when it is needed mostAshleigh...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-jtE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":117506,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/1-4-million-singaporeans-to-get-570mil-in-gst-vouchers-next-month\/","url_meta":{"origin":74874,"position":0},"title":"1.4 million Singaporeans to get $570mil in GST Vouchers next month","date":"July 2, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Eligible Singaporeans will receive up to $300 in GST voucher, which will be directly credited into their bank accounts from 1 August. 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