“I have to just try to use as little energy as possible...I don’t know how I will be able to keep myself warm this winter.”

For advisers across Scotland’s Citizens Advice network, hearing agonising worries like this is a daily experience. Even in the lightest, warmest months of this year (July-September), well over 2,000 people came to their local CAB in need of a fuel voucher.

Let’s be clear about what that means – more than 2,000 people at crisis point, in need of emergency support to keep the lights on and warm their homes.

With winter now fully upon us, these pressures will intensify with colder days and longer, darker nights. Thousands of people are losing sleep, anxious about the cost of the essentials that we all need and worried about mounting debts.

That’s why we’re raising awareness of the support available with our "‘Worried this winter?" campaign. We want anyone........

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