Citizens Advice Bureau

The Citizens Advice Bureau is the ideal place to go if you need to get advice on a wide range of both legal and financial matters especially when it comes to establishing just what you rights are. They can provide advice on benefits and the like and can also help people complete application forms for benefits or other complicated forms that Governments like to design. CAB offices are often located in the centres of town or attached to other local government buildings however they are not government controlled rather they are staffed by a mixture of volunteers and paid professionals and usually operate on a drop in policy with appointments possible after an ...  Read the complete review

The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and various other problems by providing free, independent and confidential advice. There is usually a Citizens Advice Bureau in your local village. They are open at set times a few days a week. You don't need to book in but beware that queues can build quickly - usually of people who have nothing better to do on a weekday morning (but prehaps thats just my experience). Unfortunately I didn't have a good experience with the Citizens Advice Bureau. I went to get some advice about a bad tenant I had in one of my houses. I waited in the waiting area for about an hour before someone ...  Read the complete review

** Updated 1st June to add my personal experience of CAB ** BRIEF HISTORY: CAB has been established since 1939, by 1942 there was 1074 bureaux opened, all run by volunteers. By the 1960's the number of bureaux had dropped to 416. In 1999 www.adviceguide.org.uk was launched and by 2003 the website was available in 6 different languages. Citizens Advice is 70 years old this year. (2009) ** This information is from http://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/index/aboutus/factsheets/ourhistory.htm WHAT CAB OFFER: CAB offers FREE, IMPARTIAL, INDEPENDENT and CONFIDENTIAL advice to anybody that needs it, regardless ...  Read the complete review

The Citizens Advice Bureau are an organisation (in fact a charity, I think) that members of the public can go to when they have a query about something that they cannot find the information for, or, as suggested in the name, when they need some advice. They can help with all sorts of queries, including money matters, legal advice, consumer problems, and more. There seem to be bureaux in most towns and cities and they keep good opneing hours such that people who work from Monday to Friday 9-5 can still visit them. Some of the bureaux also have a telephone number which you can call to ask for some advice. When you go in, they ask you to ...  Read the complete review

The Citizen's Advice Bureau (CAB) is a brilliant concept, os totally free, usually accessible in towns & cities otherwise can be contacted by telephone or the internet. It's advisable to try & get some independent advice before paying out hard-earned cash for solicitors etc or be given wrong advice by others. They can deal with many varied queries such as benefit entitlement, employment issues, rent/tenancy agreements etc as well as giving information on leisure passes, bus passes, local events, health centres etc. Their biggest growth area seems to be those seeking advice regarding debt issues (according to Radio 4's 'You & ...  Read the complete review