Students from Liverpool help us by volunteering their time. 12% of our clients in this part of Liverpool were under-25 last year and nationally U-25's account for 25% of our housing enquiries.
Around here we saw 25% less bankruptcy related enquiries, 30% less catalogue and mail order debts and 9% less unsecured loan debts. Unfortunately, debt still made up 34% of the problems we saw here.
In this part of Liverpool we helped people with over 20,000 problems. Last year the local bureaux saw 18% less threatened homelessness enquiries but still more than 1,100 housing related problems.
If you look south across the river at Birkenhead, our 17 community advice locations there saw 31% less redundancy enquiries 30% more Job Seekers Allowance related problems.
Last year over 26,000 people in Liverpool came to one of our 40 community advice locations with over 87,000 problems. In this part of the city, benefit enquiries made up 44% of the problems we saw.
In this part of Liverpool, a third of our clients last year were disabled and Employment Support Allowance related enquiries rose by 60%.
Around here 30% of the problems we saw last year were related to debt and we saw a 55% increase in enquiries about debt relief orders.
Welcome to Liverpool! In the early days of WW2, the CAB here saw its first clients and last year we helped people with over 87,000 problems across the city.
Around here almost 6,000 people came to our bureaux each with an average of 3 problems. It's common for our clients to have more than one problem and why our advisers are trained to look out for them.
Across the river from here in Wallasey, 32% of our clients last year were disabled and we saw a 98% increase in carers allowance enquiries. All other disability benefits also saw a year-on-year rise.
In this part of Liverpool, we saw a 24% decrease in threatened homelessness related problems but we still saw over 1,100 housing problems last year.
