File photo dated 11/01/14 of houses in Liverpool as citizens Advice is seeing increasing cries for help from people who are on the edge of losing their home, despite the improving economy. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday March 24, 2014. During 2013, the charity's volunteers and advisers dealt with nearly 87,000 problems of social housing rent arrears, marking a 10% increase on 2012. Of the 86,950 issues relating to housing arrears in the social rented sector, Citizens Advice Bureaux dealt with 10,702 problems about people at risk of having their house taken from them after falling into debt, a 26% uplift compared with a year earlier. The charity said below-inflation wage rises, a lack of affordable housing and welfare reforms have piled the pressure on people's finances, even though the wider economic situation is picking up. See PA story MONEY Home. Photo credit should read: Peter Byrne/PA Wire
%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%Citizens Advice is seeing increasing cries for help from people who are on the edge of losing their home, despite the improving economy.
During 2013, the charity's volunteers and advisers dealt with nearly 87,000 problems of social housing rent arrears, marking a 10% increase on 2012.
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