Barking and Dagenham Homes and Money Hub
Categories
Benefits & Tax Credits advice, Money/Budgeting advice, Debt advice, Housing advice
Description
Work with the most vulnerable Barking and Dagenham residents with council priority debts and complex benefit issues who are at risk of financial exclusion and homelessness.
The criteria below must be met for allocation to a Homes and Money Hub Caseworker
Allocation to a Caseworker may also not apply to anyone who has been allocated a Caseworker in the previous year and is returning with the same issues without a relevant change in circumstances
If the criteria are not met, the Homes and Money Hub may still provide urgent food assistance and will provide Information, Advice and Guidance to signpost to relevant support and services
1. At least 2 out of these 3 Primary debts:
Rent Arrears
Council Tax Arrears
Utility arrears (Electricity, Gas, Water)
Or
2. One Primary debt from Rent Arrears, Council Tax Arrears, Utility arrears and at least one of the following applies:
at risk of eviction
significant physical/mental ill-health or disability
limited capacity to manage affairs
victim of domestic abuse
victim of modern slavery
victim of loan sharks
care Leaver
has complex Universal Credit or other benefit issues, such as Benefit Cap, Under-occupancy (Bedroom Tax) or under-claiming
has mortgage arrears
a carer of a child or an adult with a disability
Or
3. NEET - 16- to 18-Year-olds who are not in Education, Employment, or Training