alistair chisholm

Head Advice Sector Policy & P'ships @Payplan. Deal own deck; tweet own tweets. Dad. Husband. @NewcastleCC councillor. Leftie. Volunteer. Rethinking trains.

[✧ 🄰 🅂 🄸 🄼 ✧ 🄸 🄻 🅈 🄰 🅂 ✧ @asim_ilyas]

Advice sector strikes have been brewing for years. Diminishing conditions, stagnating salaries and overwhelming demands coupled with gruelling contract terms have brought us here. Expect more. Solidarity.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

This is beyond shameful.

Being an MP isn’t a second job. It is the job.

Labour will put an end to this racket.

[Britain Elects @BritainElects]

Westminster voting intention:

LAB: 48% (+2)
CON: 21% (-1)
LDEM: 8% (+1)
GRN: 7% (-)
REF: 7% (-1)

via @PeoplePolling, 11 - 12 Jan
https://t.co/D2dC4XF3nV

[alistair chisholm @alistairsc]

Better bin collections in Ouseburn? https://t.co/5PdElkIrZJ

[Anne Pardoe @AnneEPardoe]

Sat on a train to london thinking about people who pay for their energy on a prepayment meter and can’t afford to keep it topped up in this cold snap.

If they can’t put money on it they sit in the cold and the dark. Simple as that.

Are we really ok with this? (1/2)

[Matt Vaughan Wilson @MattleyVW]

Last month @CitizensAdvice helped 7,495 people with council tax arrears, an 18% increase on the same period last year. 30% more people needed advice about bailiffs taking control of goods. Is there a council tax crisis on the horizon? 🧵1/6

[alistair chisholm @alistairsc]

"Buy now, pay later" credit is not the answer for energy bills - use good quality debt advice

[alistair chisholm @alistairsc]

Good for you @McnabGareth @CAPuk. @PayPlan are going through IVA and DMP cases to identify potential switchers to DROs under the new rules too. We are not waiting for the annual review but getting on with it now, and we have DRO experts doing it.

[Gareth McNab @McnabGareth]

@DebtCamel @insolvencygovuk No similar guidance yet provided to debt management orgs that I've found. Wonder if FCA will read across from this?

CAP have reviewed all our DMPs and readvised where necessary. Worthwhile activity - costly, but client benefit was key. More people debt free more quickly!

[PayPlan Debt Help @PayPlan]

It’s the last day of #IMAConf21, with #PayPlan's Emma Gibbons continuing to deliver sessions on gambling-related #financial harm with #GamCare’s Raminta Diliso. Read more about how we #support here: https://t.co/1zgf8lXAnm

[Debt Free Advice @DebtFreeAdvice_]

Big congratulations to Roni and Charlotte, Debt Free London funded Advisors @SWLLawCentres & @CAB_Bromley, who have been shortlisted as Money Advisor Of The Year in the @InstituteMA's Awards 2021!

Read the full shortlist at https://t.co/44aPD2adJQ

[Newcastle City Council @NewcastleCC]

Alistair Stuart Chisholm (Labour) has been elected as councillor for Ouseburn #LocalElections #Newcastle #VoteNCL2021

See the full results at https://t.co/sEjjFiXGhW

[alistair chisholm @alistairsc]

Great news- @joycemccarty just proposed that @NewcastleCC's debt collection strategy adopt the Standard Financial Statement & a single view of debts accross the board, & they adopt @TheFCA definition of vulnerability. This passed - brilliant. All councils need to do this.