About Us

South Hams CAB is a registered charity and offers FREE, CONFIDENTIAL, INDEPENDENT and IMPARTIAL advice on a wide range of issues, including:

Benefits

• Information about entitlement
• Help with forms
• Problems over benefit claims

Consumer

• Problems with goods
• Problems with services
• Problems with credit

Debts

• Explore income and expenditure
• Deal with any emergencies
• Identify essential expenditure
• Help negotiate with creditors

Employment

• Problems with pay, holiday or other terms & conditions
• Dismissal
• Redundancy

Family and Personal Matters

• Break up of a relationship
• Problems with children
• Problems with being elderly/caring
• Bereavement

Housing

• Rent and mortgage arrears
• Repairs
• Eviction including harassment
• Homelessness
• Landlord and tenant disputes

Aims and principles

Our Aims:

• To provide the advice people need for the problems they face.
• To improve the policies and practices that affect people’s lives.

Our Principles

The service provides free, independent, confidential and impartial advice to everyone on their rights and responsibilities. It values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination.

To find out more click here .

Legal Aid 

South Hams CAB provides specialist advice through legal aid on Debt, Welfare Benefits and Housing. If you think you may qualify for legal aid , and require advice on any of the above issues, please fill in  this form .

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