Citizens Advice Caterham & Warlingham
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28th June 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
HealthWatch – Caring for the NHS if we want the NHS to Care for Us
What does it mean to be British? One of the greatest Britons of all time (arguably) once said ‘History will be kind to me as I intend to write it’. Although Winston Churchill could be said to have achieved this aim and despite being a national isntitution and the most popular British Prime Minister of […]
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28th June 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
Beware of Empty Pension Promises
What’s the difference between a Tuna and a piano? You can tune a piano but you can’t piano a Tuna. Next What’s the difference between Financial Advice and money advice? This is however, no joke. Financial advice is about the choices we have to make when considering how to make investments and pensions or where to […]
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28th June 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
Is No DSS Discrimination?
Thankfully times have changed since signs advertising properties or rooms to let openly excluded people because of their race or the colour of their skin. Discrimination still happens in the UK of course, in spite of the fact that the Equality Act 2010 (which brought together various anti-discrimination legislation under one piece of legislation) has […]
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8th May 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
Changes to Management of Child Maintenance
Any family breakdown is a difficult time for a family and one of the most contentious issues is often the financial arrangements to be agreed. Families need to be aware that the statutory system for ensuring child maintenance is paid is undergoing radical reform. The DWP is now responsible for administering this scheme and has […]
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28th April 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
A Society in which Sanctions Busting takes on a whole new meaning
I mean, what have you got to lose You know, you come from nothing, you’re going back to nothing What have you lost? Nothing! Part of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Monty Python) Citizens Advice is concerned that an increasing number of people who have very little are being left with nothing […]
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14th April 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
Don’t believe everything you read in the papers
‘Sun forces charity to ditch rip-off helplines’‘(headline on the Sun newspaper website 07 April 2014). Do they mean Citizens Advice?. Well, yes it seems they do. Imagine a 63 year old man – let’s call him Jim (an entirely fictitious character, so any resemblance to anyone alive or dead is coincidental) – calling a bureau […]
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6th April 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
Single Tier Pension
How do you feel about growing old? Do you agree with the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who said: “Growing old is like being increasingly punished for a crime you haven’t committed”. How old is old anyway (especially if as some say sixty is the new forty?) However old you may feel, the state […]
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1st April 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
New Ways of Getting a Fair Hearing
The deaf American actress Marlee Martin once said she hoped she could…”change attitudes on deafness and prove we really can do everything except hear.” Stephanie Beacham, another actress spoke about the way in which hearing difficulty isolated her. “I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave”. The number of profoundly deaf people in Surrey is […]
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29th March 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
Citizens Advice Logbook Loans Campaign
The expression “a pound of flesh” has been defined as something to which someone is strictly entitled though which it is ruthless to demand. This might ring a bell if you have had dealings with a logbook lender. Aggressive behaviour, sexual harassment and death threats are just some of the brutish tactics logbook lenders used […]
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29th March 2014 by Caterham & Warlingham Citizens Advice in Campaigns
Early Concilliation
Unable to decide which of his two staff to lay off, a manager came up with the idea of keeping the one who could devise the most secure log-in computer password. The successful password was MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofyParis. Intrigued, the manager asked his employee to explain how he had managed to create such an unusual password. He replied, “Well, you said it had […]
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