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Free advice day

Wednesday 23 May 2012

Noon – 2pm

Asda, Holles Street, Grimsby

Come along for help and advice with:

Resolving debt problems
Benefit checks and help with claims
Joining a Credit Union to help you save
Housing/homelessness issues
General advice on money matters including savings, loans and budgeting

Private appointments available

East Marsh resident?

Don't forget, we'll be carrying out annual gas safety checks in the East Marsh multi-storey flats on the following dates:

From Monday 14 to Wednesday 23 May 2012 we'll be carrying out checks at Bevan House From Thursday 24 to Thursday 31 May we'll be carrying out checks in Garibaldi House.

If you're a resident of these blocks you will have received a letter with your appointment time. Please make sure you are there to let us into your home so we can carry out this check. Missed appointments cost time and money.

It is very important that you have your gas appliances checked. Gas appliances can become dangerous and give off carbon monoxide fumes if they are not properly maintained. You cannot see, taste or smell carbon monoxide but it can kill. Gas safety is for your safety - your gas safety check is free and could save your life.

Benefit cap is coming

Over the next fortnight, thousands of households will start receiving letters from the government warning them they may soon lose some of their benefits.

The government is writing to all families it believes are at risk of having their benefits cut when the overall benefit cap is introduced in April 2013.

The cap, part of the Welfare Reform Act, will impose an upper limit on the total amount of benefit an out-of-work household can receive, set at the level of average take-home pay for a working household. From April 2013, the government will look at the amount a household receives from a range of benefits – including housing benefit, jobseeker's allowance, employment support allowance, child benefit, child tax credit and carer's allowance – and add them together to come up with an overall total. If it comes to more than the national cap then housing benefit payments will be reduced.

This will be the first direct contact the government has made with the 67,000 households in Great Britain at risk of seeing their benefits capped.

Read the letter (30 kb) *. Clicking the link will open the letter in a new window.

Free drop-in sessions for Shoreline tenants

Most wanted

Items like mobiles, laptops and mp3 players are easy for thieves to sell on, which makes them popular items to steal. Try and protect and safeguard your property.

Record serial numbers and unique reference codes of your electronic goods and valuables on www.immobilise.com - the free online database. If you are a victim of a burglary, simply update the status of the items to 'stolen'. This will help the police to try and trace your property more easily.

In addition, use the following advice to try and protect your property.

Don't leave valuables on display in your car or vehicle or at home near windows.
Do not leave cash or jewellery lying around.
Keep all valuables out of sight, hidden and in a safe place.

Laptops/ tablets

Use an ultraviolet (UV) pen to mark both the battery and inside the battery cover of your laptop or tablet with your postcode and wither your house number or the first two initials of your house name.
Create a strong password.
Perform a full disk encryption (FDE) to help protect sensitive data stored inside your laptop or tablet PC

Smart phones

When you register your phone on Immobilise include the IMEI number. You can find this by pressing the following keys on your handset: * # 0 6 # This is your phones unique number and the first thing the police will check for when recovering property.

Cash and jewellery

Do not leave cash or jewellery lying around. Keep all valuables out of sight, hidden and in a safe place.
Take photos of all your valuable jewellery.
Consider engraving it.

Bicycles

Invest in a good quality lock – hardened steel D-shaped locks and sturdy chain locks are recommended.
If possible use two different types of lock.
Secure your bike, even at home.
Take a photo of it and register it on Immobilise including a written record of its description.

Home entertainment systems

Register the serial number of your TV/ DVD and audio equipment in Immobilise.
Mark your postcode on the back with a UV pen.

New website design

We'd love to know what you think to our new website design, send us your comments via our Facebook page or by email to communications@shorelinehp.com.

image of new website design

* The letter is an Adobe Acrobat pdf file.

You will need Adobe Reader software to view it. If you do not have the software installed on your computer, you can download it for free by clicking on the icon below.