Carers Ask an Expert: Help to Manage Mortgage Stress #10590

Carers Ask an Expert: Help to Manage Mortgage Stress.

With Rob Burgess, Financial Counsellor from Mortgage Stress Victoria (MSV).

Many carers are finding the rising cost of living challenging and are struggling to pay their mortgage.

Join Mortgage Stress Victoria (MSV) to learn about the services available to help reduce mortgage stress. MSV is Australia’s only free service exclusively dedicated to support people in mortgage stress to maintain secure housing.

Topic includes

• Key resources to support carers in mortgage stress: emergency relief, no-interest loan scheme, utility relief grant, other grants and waivers
• Looking into the future: downsizing your home and using the Home Equity Access Scheme
• Finding out what help your mortgage lender can provide: financial counselling, requesting a rate review or term extension
• Getting support if the bank does the wrong thing: legal assistance and support to make a complaint
• Caring for the carer: Accessing social work support for your circumstance, which may include housing services and budgeting advice.

You are invited to submit a question to MSV at the time of registration. Rob will also respond to as many live questions as possible during the session.

Location

This is an online event. A link will be provided upon registration.

Who should attend

This session is open to all carers and their families.

Attendance is free, but registration is required.

About our expert

Rob Burgess is a general financial counsellor with Mortgage Stress Victoria and before that with Anglicare Victoria. Prior to that he spent many years working as a journalist, frequently writing on finance, investment, economics and the housing market. This also included many references to the government’s Home Equity Access Scheme.