Around here we saw a 33% fall in mortgage and secured loan related problems but a 57% rise in housing benefit problems last year.
Benefit related problems made up nearly a quarter of the problems people came to us with last year. Employment Support Allowance related enquiries alone rose by a huge 222%
In this area we helped people with over 17,000 problems. The biggest rise we saw last year was in water and sewerage debt enquiries which rose by 63%.
Around here we helped people with more than 8,300 problems. Working and child tax credit related problems increased by 28% last year and all benefit enquiries made up 32% of the total problems we saw.
Down in Bury, which you can see if you look South, we helped people with more than 24,500 problems. Debt and benefits made up the majority of these with almost 20,000 enquiries between them.
If you look North to Blackburn, we helped people with almost 8,000 problems there. Almost 50% of the problems there related to people’s benefits with housing benefit related problems rising by 41%.
Around here we saw debts to catalogue and mail order companies rise by 9% but credit/store charge debt fell 23%. Debt was still one of the big issues for people here representing 31% of all enquiries.
Across Manchester we saw a year-on-year rise in the number water and sewerage debt related enquiries. In this part of the city that increase was 106%.
Across this part part of Manchester we helped people with over 21,200 different problems. A majority of our clients were aged between 25-49 which is more than the wider national
Housing makes up 6% of all the enquiries we see. We saw a 58% rise in enquiries about rent arrears but an 18% decrease in mortgage and secured loan related problems.
Around here 1 in 4 of our clients are disabled and so it’s unsurprising that disability benefits are a big worry. We saw a 72% rise in Employment Support Allowance alone last year.
People’s benefits are the biggest single problem we help with in this part of Manchester, making almost 40% of the total problems we saw.
In this part of Manchester we saw a 62% increase in telephone and broadband related debts but there was a 16% fall in credit and store card debt related enquiries.
Around here we saw 63% more dismissal related enquiries which was more pronounced because in this area employment related problems make up 4% of the all enquiries - half the national 8% average.
Around here we saw 63% more dismissal related enquiries which was more pronounced because in this area employment related problems make up 4% of the all enquiries - half the national 8% average.
Almost 6,000 people visited our 3 community locations in this part of Manchester last year. 34% of the total problems related to debt which is higher than the national average of 32%.
In this area we saw 35% less bankruptcy enquiries and other debt problems also falling but disability benefits were increasingly worrying. Employment Support Allowance alone saw a 105% increase.
In this area we helped people with almost 20,000 different problems last year. We saw a 15% decrease in the number of redundancy related enquiries but a 40% increase in dismissal problems.
