Your local Citizens Advice Bureau, often called the CAB, is a great place to go for free information. There are more than 90 CABs in New Zealand, so there’s probably one near where you live. The staff at the CAB can help you find information and services that you need. CAB staff might not always have the answers, but they’ll usually know where to find them.

Here are some of the things the CAB can help you with:

 

• interpreting and translation services
• education and training information
• free legal services
• employment rights
• housing and tenancy issues
• free budgeting services
• health and welfare issues
• consumer rights
• transport and travel
• personal and family issues
• community groups
• national/ethnic associations