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You can no longer apply for a Help to Buy: Equity Loan - find out about interest rates and how to manage your Help to Buy: Equity Loan.

Think carefully before you borrow money for your company.

• Updated: 7 July 2023

Interest-free loans from the government for some people on benefits: how to apply, check if you're eligible

• How they work

  A Budgeting Loan can help pay for: furniture or household items (for…

• Check if you're eligible

  To get a Budgeting Loan you must have been getting one or more of these…

• What you could get

  The lowest amount you can borrow is £100. You could get up to: £348 if…

• Paying back the loan

  A Budgeting Loan is interest free so you only pay back what you borrow.…

• Apply for a Budgeting Loan

  Check you’re eligible before you apply for a Budgeting Loan. You can apply…

• After you apply

  After you apply you’ll be given a decision on your application. You need…

• Other help you can get

  You may be able to get other kinds of support, including: help from your…

How to prioritise and reduce your debts, and where to get free debt advice

• Updated: 21 December 2017

Steps to help grow your business - finding finance, mentors, increasing sales and developing products and services

Support for Mortgage Interest (SMI) helps homeowners on certain benefits pay interest on loans or mortgages - what you'll get, eligibility and how to claim.

The Student Loans Company (SLC) is warning new and returning students to be vigilant of scams, as the new 25/26 academic year gets underway.

• Updated: 10 September 2025

When you need permission to remortgage, how your lenders are involved, what documents you’ll need and how to apply.

• Updated: 4 February 2022

How to tax a beneficial loan arrangement for a director or employee.

• Updated: 30 December 2019

• Updated: 2 September 2025