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Highlighting common difficulties faced by the services’ mobile population in acquiring credit and offers advice on how to overcome these.
Find out about our Lines of Credit facility: its benefits, eligibility criteria and how to apply.
Universal Credit information and guidance for employers.
Supporting the Armed Forces onto the home ownership ladder.
How Universal Credit is affected by having money, savings and investments. We call this ‘capital’.
Payment authorisation slip
If a tenant is having difficulty paying their rent, apply for a Managed Payment to Landlord using the Apply for a Direct Rent Payment service to request payment of rent from a tenant’s Universal Credit.
Official experimental statistics for the number of people on Universal Credit.
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