"Advice agencies – which provide a lifeline to people in debt, or facing problems with their benefits or housing – are under financial pressure as never before. Demand for services is increasing, at a time when impending changes to legal aid threaten to remove funding for large swathes of social welfare law, and when many providers are also facing cuts in local authority grants. The demand for social welfare law advice is especially acute in London, with its greater levels of poverty (28%, compared with 22% elsewhere in England), higher levels of debt, large numbers of people in temporary accommodation, and substantial migrant population." - M F

At the same time posh restaurants and hotels have never had it so good. - M F

I'm not even sure where the local CAB offices are any more, they have all shut down and they mostly deal with immigration/benefits these days. I used to use it as a teenager after leaving school to help me choose which college was best suited for me. I'm sure if a teenager went there now with a similar request, they'd say go somewhere else. - Halil