Charities are urging MSPs to improve the advice available for domestic abuse victims to prevent them being tied economically to their abuser.
Scottish Women’s Aid says the financial link with the perpetrator after a relationship ends must be severed.
A Holyrood committee has been told that taking the decision to move out of a home can cost as much as fifty thousand pounds over the course of a year.
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