Health and Wellbeing
Debt and money advice
Information, advice and legal help in relation to money including negotiating with creditors, rescheduling debt, benefit or income maximisation, applications for administration orders, mortgage arrears, tax debts, and utilities bills.
Read about how to tackle priority debts, get debt advice, affordable credit and grants in You and your money booklet, a guide to direct you to help and advice for financial concerns.
To check if you qualify for help with rent or council tax visit our Housing and council tax benefit pages.
Free telephone advice
- Community Legal Service Direct - free quality legal information and advice and how to find a solicitor or adviser in your area
- National Debtline - 0808 808 4000
Other support
- Southwark Advice website
- Capitalise - London's Debt Reduction Partnership for details of services in Southwark and across London.
- Cambridge House Law Centre
- Debt Advice Foundation a national debt education and advice charity
- Debt Advice Forum where you can post anonymous queries and get advice from debt experts, as well as view responses to other people's queries
- Money Savvy Southwark- help for social housing tenants in managing money
- Step Change debt advice charity
You can also visit the Citizens Advice advice guide