Up to 16,000 households in Shropshire may be getting into debt and struggling to pay their bills, the county’s Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) has estimated.
It also said the recent government announcement regarding changes to benefits was a concern for many.
The charity’s chief officer Jackie Jeffrey said: “A lot of people that we support and help have a long term fitness or a disability, so it would be quite understandable that people are worried.”
She said support was available, but it was difficult to navigate and she said it could be “a really complex system”.
Ms Jeffrey said the biggest number of queries the Shropshire CAB had received concerned the Personal Independence Payment (PIP).
It is currently paid to more than 3.6 million people…
