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Universal Credit logo. Universal Credit is a United Kingdom social security payment. It is means-tested and is replacing and combining six benefits, for working-age households with a low income: income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA), income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), and Income Support; Child Tax Credit (CTC) and Working Tax Credit (WTC); and Housing Benefit.
Universal Service Fund. The Universal Service Fund (USF) is a system of telecommunications subsidies and fees managed by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to promote universal access to telecommunications services in the United States. The FCC established the fund in 1997 in compliance with the Telecommunications Act of ...
Universal credit card. A Universal Card was a concept in the early 2010s for an electronic card with the same form factor as a magnetic stripe card that was capable of emulating any magnetic stripe data card. Data would be stored either in the card, or on a smart phone that communicates with it. [1] It would allow consumer to consolidating ...
Universal Credit Corporation. The Universal Credit Corporation (UCC) was a car financing entity for Ford cars that existed in the US in the 1930s. It was established in 1928 and was capitalised by Ford in conjunction with the Union Guardian Trust Company of Detroit. It was set up in response to GMAC (now Ally Financial) through the efforts of ...
Just one month later, the two firms sold Experian to The Great Universal Stores Limited in Manchester, England, a retail conglomerate with millions of customers paying for goods on credit (later renamed GUS). [14] GUS merged its own credit-information business, CCN, which at the time was the largest credit-service company in the UK, into Experian.
The Flexible Support Fund is administered by individual Job Centres in the United Kingdom. The Flexible Support Fund (FSF) [1] is a fund in the United Kingdom to aid those in receipt of unemployment benefits to gain employment. It is administered by Job Centres [1] and can be used by individual claimants for the cost of travel to interviews ...
The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) is used by the British Government's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to decide whether and to what extent welfare benefit claimants are capable of doing work or work-related activities. The outcome of the assessment also determines whether claimants are entitled to "new style" Employment and Support ...
Products. Credit ratings. Website. www .ucrgratings .com [dead link] Universal Credit Rating Group (UCRG) ( Chinese: 世界信用評級集團) was a credit rating agency joint venture of capital from the US, China and Russia. UCRG was based in Hong Kong and designed to rival western credit rating agencies.