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Consumers across Scotland are being urged not to let their financial situation deteriorate drastically through an overreliance on debt this Christmas.

The country’s leading food bank charity has said that it handed out more food parcels than ever before between April and the end of September this year.

Users of foodbanks across the UK are living on an average income of £50 per week once their rent has been paid, according to a new study.

Campaign groups are calling for there to be an increase to amounts of money being distributed via the Scottish Welfare Fund after it was revealed that more and more people are applying for its emergency funds.

Indebted Scots are being urged to check whether they’re entitled to claim council tax reductions.

Slightly over a third (34 per cent) of all adults living in Scotland don’t set any money aside as savings on a regular basis, according to a new piece of research.

Some 76 per cent of Scottish adults are worried about money or about their debt situations as they look ahead to the next 12 months.

People aged over 55 who have borrowed money at some stage in the past five years are becoming increasingly reliant on credit card debt.

Claimants of Universal Credit are entitled to receive an extra £25 per week to cover their costs when the weather gets particularly cold.

Just over a million people in Scotland are living in poverty, according to the findings of a new in-depth report on the issue.

People living in Glasgow spend more on average on a night out than their counterparts from anywhere else in the country, according to a new set of figures.

There were notable increases in the number of people falling into debt with their gas and electricity suppliers over the course of last year, the energy sector’s regulator has revealed.