16 Mar 2026
It’s Debt Awareness Week and West Suffolk Council is tackling the stigma and highlighting the help that it and its community partners can offer to residents.
National figures from support charity StepChange suggest more than half of UK adults have run into problems of some kind relating to debt including mortgages, rent, credit and store cards and energy bills.
In West Suffolk more than 760 people have received debt advice from Citizens Advice in the last 12 months. That included 82 people with a collective debt of just under £1.7m who needed and were given further support from Citizens Advice to help them manage their debt.
Sadly, it is believed many people may not be aware of the help they can get or feel too ashamed…