Submission from Citizens Advice Scotland to the Infrastructure & Capital Investment Committee: Scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s Spending Review 2011 and Draft Budget 2012-13
CAS is concerned that the decreasing budgets for housing services and for local authorities, alongside the impact of the UK Welfare Reform bill on housing benefit claimants and the increase in public service demand that this will create, will result in a „perfect storm‟ of challenges for housing providers.