Staff at Tauranga Budget Advisory Service are feeling the strain as hundreds of people continue to visit the organisation for help.
About 200 new clients have registered with the organisation since June 30 this year.

Tauranga Budget Advisory Service manager Marjorie Spicer.

Tauranga Budget Advisory Service manager Marjorie Spicer says it has been a struggle for staff to cope with the numbers.
'We certainly feel busy, it just doesn't stop,” says Marjorie.
The number of people the organisation refers to the Tauranga Community Trust Foodbank is on the rise.
In 2008, the Tauranga Budget Advisory Service referred a total of 2385 families to the foodbank and to the end of August this year there were 2764 referrals made.
Marjorie is critical of the decision not to allocate funding to the foodbank from the government's Community Response Fund.
'We wonder why their resources are being depleted. They are supplying the most basic of all necessities, which is food,” says Marjorie.
She believes the decision not to allocate funding to the foodbank was made because some politicians want to abolish the service.
'The people who complain about foodbanks should spend a day down there volunteering, that will open their eyes,” says Marjorie.
In its 2008 financial year, the Tauranga Budget Advisory Service reported a total of 831 new clients and 608 existing clients.
In the 2007 financial year, there were 747 new clients and 482 existing clients.
Tauranga Budget Advisory Service manager Marjorie Spicer says it's more of the same but much more of it.
She also says there is a continuing trend of people declaring bankruptcy because of increased financial strain.
'The thing we find difficult is the politicians who are saying there is no poverty in New Zealand,” says Marjorie.
She is also urging people who need budgeting help, not to leave it to the last minute.
'We had one person come in at 3.15 in the afternoon who needed help and their power was being cut off the next morning. Come to us early,” says Marjorie.