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Financial counselling

Financial counselling can help you get back on your feet after a disaster. If you’re under financial stress a counsellor can help you understand your financial options and help you plan personal and family budgets.

Lifeline Financial Counselling offers free and independent financial advice over the phone and in person.

To speak to a counsellor phone the financial counselling hotline on 1300 370 225 (9am to 6pm Monday to Friday).

Free face-to-face consultations are available in the following areas:

  • Brisbane
  • Cairns
  • Dalby
  • Gold Coast
  • Hervey Bay
  • Ipswich
  • Mackay
  • Rockhampton
  • Sunshine Coast
  • Townsville.

Phone 1300 370 225 to book an appointment.

The Indigenous Consumer Assistance Network (ICAN) provides services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander consumers across Australia. They provide financial counselling particularly on the Cassowary Coast.

To speak to a counsellor contact ICAN by phone on 1300 369 878.

Salvation Army Money Care offers a free, confidential financial counselling service.

Money Care services are available in the following areas:

  • Cassowary Coast
  • Emerald
  • Lockyer Valley
  • Toowoomba
  • Western Downs.

Phone 1300 662 217 to contact a financial counsellor from Money Care.

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Last updated:
6 February 2013

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