Jingle Bills: Addressing Christmas Debt

Law for Community Workers

Overspending at Christmas can be the worst start to new year for a lot of people. In this episode we speak with two of Legal Aid’s Financial Counselors about some of the spending traps people can fall into at Christmas and give some information about tools and services available for people to gain control over their spending.

Jeanine is from the Civil Law Service for Aboriginal Communities or ‘CLSAC’. We are a service of Legal Aid NSW. CLSAC goes to communities in NSW and visits Aboriginal women in custody. The majority of CLSAC staff are Aboriginal people.

Baryulgil

Maclean

Brewarrina

Mt Druitt

Lake Cargelligo

Batemans Bay

Malabugilmah

Condobolin

Tabulam

Bodalla

Mogo

Coraki

Toomelah

Boggabilla

Moree

Dareton

Wallaga Lake

Bourke

Moruya

East Dubbo

Yamba

CLSAC goes to these communities:

Sharon is a member of the Consumer team in our Civil Law division.

Both CLSAC and the Consumer team are a part of the Civil Law division of Legal Aid NSW.

The civil law practice helps resolve legal issues that impact on people's everyday lives such as debts, unpaid fines, discrimination, tenancy issues, Centrelink disputes and more. Our focus is on helping people to resolve legal issues as early as possible.

Budgeting tools: https://moneysmart.gov.au/

Law Access: 1300 888 529 debt and credit (nsw.gov.au)

CLSAC (Jeanine): 1800 793 017 and 02 9219 5057

Consumer Team (Sharon): [e-mail]

Link to Transcript: https://otter.ai/u/0STHGy05vH5NluI_poQok_x3VfE

Financial Rights Legal Centre: Financial Rights Legal Centre - Advice and advocacy for consumers in financial stress.

Acknowledgments

The music in our Law for Community Workers on the go podcasts is Blue Highway by Podington Bear licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Legal Aid NSW has met all our legal copyright and intellectual property obligations in the preparation of these podcasts