Many local and national services can offer you free help and support. They can help you manage your money, sort debts or claim the benefits you are entitled to.
Receipt of certain benefits can give entitlement to further benefits or services, for example, eye tests, NHS Prescription costs and Healthy Start vouchers.
Loan sharks operate by offering illegal loans at extremely high rates of interest, which can prove impossible to repay. They often use threats and violence against those who fall behind with their payments, forcing many victims into crime.