When Money Becomes a Weapon: Recognising Economic Abuse in Diverse and Migrant Communities

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Economic abuse is a form of domestic abuse in which a perpetrator restricts, exploits or sabotages another person’s money and economic resources. It can involve controlling a bank account, taking wages, creating debt in someone else’s name, interfering with work, withholding child maintenance, denying access to benefits or destroying property. Because the behaviour is often […]

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