Information must be sufficient to establish that they do not have the financial resources to meet the expenditure you are requesting help with and must include:
- what their income consists of, whether or not they are on, or have applied for state benefits, and/or local council help including Budgeting Loans/Advances or Local Welfare Provision. We would expect them to have tried these routes first
- if the request relates to help with debt we need to know about any debt repayment arrangements and we may need to have a financial statement.