links to independent advice
If you are having difficulties keeping up with your monthly payments, it is important
that you contact us as soon as possible. We are here to help you where we can.
We also strongly suggest that you seek independent financial advice to help
you manage your mortgage. The following organisations provide jargon free information
designed to help you.
The Money Advice Service
Telephone Number: 0300 500 5000
A website providing impartial information and tools to help you manage your money.
If you are having problems paying your mortgage,
click here to download a Money Advice Service leaflet.
Credit Action
Telephone Number: 020 7380 3390
A website that offers a range of resources, tools and training to help manage your
money.
Free, confidential debt advice websites
Citizens Advice
Telephone Number: contact your local branch
The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems
by providing free independent and confidential advice. There are over 400 Citizens
Advice Bureau offices across England and Wales and more than 20 in Northern Ireland.
Look on the Citizens Advice website for details of your local bureau.
CCCS (Consumer Credit Counselling Service)
Telephone Number: 0800 138 1111
The purpose of CCCS is to assist people who are in financial difficulty by providing
credit counselling and free, independent, impartial advice.
National Debtline
Telephone Number: 0808 808 4000
A helpline that provides free confidential and independent advice on how to deal
with debt problems.
The following sites may also be useful
Shelter
Telephone Number: 0808 800 4444
Shelter can give confidential help to people with all kinds of housing problems.
DirectGov
A government website providing a wide range of information which includes public
service information on money, tax, looking for a job, benefits and government mortgage
rescue schemes.
Financial Services Authority
Telephone Number: 0845 606 1234
An independent body that regulates the financial services industry in the UK.
Financial Ombudsman Service
Consumer helplines:
0800 0 234 567 - Free for people telephoning from a “fixed line” (for example, a
landline at home)
0300 123 9 123 - Free for mobile-phone users who pay a monthly charge for calls
to numbers starting 01 or 02
The official independent expert set up by parliament to settle individual complaints
between consumers and businesses providing financial services.
Office of Fair Trading
The OFT’s job is to make markets work well for consumers. It promotes and protects
consumer interests throughout the UK, while ensuring businesses are fair and competitive.
Click
here to download an arrears information leaflet from the OFT.
Citizens Advice Bureau - Advice Guide
Telephone number: 08454 04 05 06
The Citizens Advice service helps people resolve their legal, money and other problems by
providing free, independent and confidential advice.