11 April, 2022
8 April, 2022
Peers raise concerns about the impact the change will have on borrowers, particularly as the government intends to maintain the freeze until 2024/2025
23 March, 2022
Campaign document also call for immediate changes to debt advice contracts from April 2022 and for MaPS to 'learn the lessons' from failure of previous commissioning process
22 March, 2022
CSJ report highlights emerging trends in illegal money lending and the menacing techniques and exploitative methods used by loan sharks to deceive their victims
2 March, 2022
New statutory instrument provides for three year’s advance warning before changes under the Prescription (Scotland) Act 2018 are introduced
25 February, 2022
However, Chief Executive says that while MaPS has a key role in coordinating the implementation of the strategy, it will take a united effort from government, the private sector and charities to achieve its collective aims
24 February, 2022
16 February, 2022
16 February, 2022
Committee particularly seeks views on the impact of digital exclusion and social stigma, and the interaction between a person's mental health and debt
14 February, 2022
Plans include £30 million annual funding of regional debt advice services after previous procurement plans were cancelled following concession that they would not be in the best interests of people who need debt advice
9 February, 2022
28 January, 2022
However, new Insolvency Service statistics highlight that just 624 mental health registrations had been made since the scheme's launch
22 December, 2021
Key changes include establishing a single, independent regulator and developing a system of compensation and redress
17 December, 2021
Announcement follows concerns raised by MPs and frontline debt advisers that new contracts would not provide adequate levels of face-to-face advice and would exclude many vulnerable people from debt advice altogether
16 December, 2021
We Are Debt Advisers warns that move to basic telephone and webchat advice under current procurement exercise will 'exclude many vulnerable people from debt advice altogether'
9 December, 2021
Letter to MaPs chief executive calls for existing debt advice funding arrangements to be extended so that a public consultation and equality impact assessment can be concluded
7 December, 2021
New duty will be enforced using 'assertive supervision' and 'new data-led approach to intervene quickly when practices which do not deliver for consumers are identified'
6 December, 2021
In new financial inclusion report, HM Treasury says that regulations for the new scheme may not be laid until the end of 2022
2 December, 2021
In response, Minister says that MaPs will need to demonstrate that commissioned services are able to deal with complex cases 'irrespective of the channel the cases come through'
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