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If you don’t have enough to live on while you wait for your first payment you may be able to get an advance of your first Universal Credit payment.
Search reports on business payment practices: when invoices are paid, payment terms and practices
Get a benefit advance if you've applied for a benefit for the first time and cannot afford to wait for the first payment
Guidance on debt relief orders for debt advisers. To search, press ‘control’ and ‘f’ on your keyboard at the same time. A search box will appear.
Find out about our Standard Buyer Loan Guarantee: its benefits, eligibility criteria and how to apply.
Interest-free loans from the government for some people on benefits: how to apply, check if you're eligible
Find guidance on making employees' student loan and postgraduate loan deductions in different circumstances.
Find out about loans that count as qualifying loans.
How to tax a beneficial loan arrangement for a director or employee.
How to make debt deductions from an employee's pay because of an 'attachment of earnings order' (AEO) from a court. Includes information from the withdrawn A/E guidance.
The order imposes new obligations on online and high street payday lenders.
Payday lending reports to help inform government and regulators on consumer credit regulations transfer to the Financial Conduct Authority.
Use this if your payroll software or the GOV.UK calculator does not calculate your employee’s payments.
Advanced Learner Loan and the Bursary Fund help with college or training course costs - funding, how to apply, application forms, repayments
Information on a number of schemes designed to avoid Income Tax and National Insurance contributions by using capital advances, joint and mutual share ownership agreements.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled against misleading advertising of contractor loan schemes by scheme promoter, Williams Gordon.
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