Porirua Budget Service is a community not-for-profit organisation that aims to
advise and educate the community within the area bounded by Tawa to Pukerua Bay,
and Pauatahanui to Titahi Bay, on the management of family or personal finances.
The Service achieves this through the one-to-one relationship of a client family with
a budget adviser as well as the provision of community based education. |
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Our Advisers can advise/assist you with:
- Planning a Budget and living within your income
- Crisis situations- power/phone disconnections, etc
- Repossession
- Debt management
- Negotiating with Creditors
- Work and Income Benefit issues
- Insolvency - No Asset Procedure, Summary Instalment Order, Bankruptcy
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| Free Service |
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We help people learn about handling money. Budget advice is, therefore, a matter
of education.
Through a process of education we help empower you achieve other
objectives, which may include:
- Reduction and ultimate elimination of debt
- Awareness of spending and
saving patterns
- Change in financial priorities
- Happier personal
and family relationship
- A more affordable lifestyle
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- One Off/Crisis - Immediate assistance if you are in financial crisis or if you just need some advice about your income or spending.
- Ongoing - Develop your money management skills together with ongoing support and advice.
- Community Education - Develop money management and financial literacy skills in the community
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