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New rules for card payments

From January 2018, businesses will not be allowed to charge additional fees to customers who wish to pay by debit or credit cards. Currently, businesses can charge an additional surcharge to cover the costs of taking card payments. Charges can range from small one-off payments (for example, 50p), often charged in small shops and businesses; to 3%, or even 5% of the total overall amount spent – often the case for large airlines. The ban will cover payments made via Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Paypal.

Money Sorted and Towards Work launch presentations

| On Tuesday 2nd and Thursday 4th May, the ESIF funded projects ‘Money Sorted in D2N2’ and ‘Towards Work’ were officially launched in Nottingham and Derby. See below for the presentations given at these events.

When is a rent reduction not good news for a tenant?

The Government has ordered social landlords (housing associations) to reduce rents by 1%. This must be good news for tenants mustn’t it? Not for a lot of the tenants Advice Nottingham are helping.

Film that gained a story from St Anns Advice Centre wins BAFTA

The film, ‘I Daniel Blake’ has won a BAFTA. The film was made by Ken Loach who carried out research for the film at St Ann’s Advice Centre to understand the problems faced by benefit claimants in the city. Mr Loach met advisors, staff and people suffering on benefits before starting work on the film. Debbie Webster, manager at the centre, said: “We are long standing advisors and he wanted to talk to people who are feeling the consequences and the impact of the welfare regime. He went into the food bank and met some of our clients.

Benefit Cap

If you are affected by the benefit cap (which comes fully into force today, Monday 9 January 2017) and need advice, please visit one of our six advice agencies.

Advice Nottingham successful in bid to run project tackling poverty and social exclusion

Advice Nottingham has been successful in its bid for just over 3 million pounds to run a new innovative project working to tackle the poverty and social exclusion faced by the most disadvantaged in D2N2 area. Advice Nottingham have brought together agencies across the D2N2 area that will work together to achieve better outlooks for their communities.

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