Spire Homes help tenants with money advice

Spire Homes are working with the Northampton Community Law Service to help tenants get out of debt, and stay out; by offering money advice and helping to make sure tenants are receiving the rights benefits they are entitled to.

The Community Law Service has recently been awarded a three year funding deal of £50,000 a year, in partnership with East Northamptonshire Council. This will fund a project to help enable more people living in rural parts of East Northamptonshire have access to the service. Spire Homes will work along side Community Law Service to help get tenants advice at an early stage.

Clare Brooker, Income Recovery Team Leader said, “We like to make sure tenants have the advice and support they need, and offer extra help them pay their rent so they can stay in their homes. Working with Community Law Service will help us ensure anyone who needs specialist money advice can access it. We recognise that times are hard for people and that's why partnerships such as these are so important, as they offer us a way to help our residents as much as we can.”

One happy tenant who used the service said, “Spire helped us with our budgeting and identified where we could save. We weren’t always able to pay our rent on time, but now we are paying regularly. Without this advice and help, we wouldn’t have been able to do this.”