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A sizable proportion of Scots who are in work have had to go without food at some point over the last year due to a lack of cash as they await their next payday.

People with serious debt problems across the UK will soon be given protections from their creditors for a period of 60 days if they engage with professional debt advisers and seek out long-term solutions to their financial issues.

Roughly in one in six people in employment around the UK are in low-paid and insecure work, according to a new piece of research carried out by the Living Wage Foundation.

The UK government is to asses the impact that welfare policies including Universal Credit have had on people living in Scotland.

The financial services sector’s regulator has promised to introduce a variety of rule changes that are designed to better protect consumers who find themselves in debt and facing fees in relation to their bank or building society overdrafts.

A new grant has been launched by the Scottish government with the aim of providing some financial assistance to low-income families with school-age children.

Energy suppliers have been told by the authors of an independent report that they should be doing more to support their most vulnerable customers.

Communications designed to encourage people in long-term credit card debt to start dealing with their issues are going widely ignored across the country.

Citizens Advice Scotland is urging people across the country to make sure they claim whatever state benefits they might be entitled to without delay and without any sense of embarrassment at having to do so.

The average UK consumer would not consider their debts to be a “serious concern” until they were worth in excess of £6,000.

A new advisory service has been launched with the aim of providing useful help and practical support to consumers across Scotland.

Complaints made about payday loan companies increased by as much as 130 per cent over the course of the last year as compared with the previous 12 months.