Financial advice and support

Find out about local organisations that can offer financial advice and support.

Online advice is available through many national organisations. The advice is confidential and free.

Depending on your circumstances, you can get help to cover the cost of a deposit on a rented property with the Knowsley bond scheme.

Receipt of certain benefits can give entitlement to further benefits or services, for example, eye tests, NHS Prescription costs and Healthy Start vouchers. 

Find out what support there is if you are currently claiming or plan to claim Universal Credit.

Find out about the government’s Welfare Reform Act 2012 which introduced major changes to the benefits system, particularly for people of working age.

First Right of Appropriation gives you the right to tell your bank/building society how you want the money paid into your account to be used.

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.