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2. Universal Credit - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Rent Repayment Order - Wikipedia

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   Local authorities can only apply for a Rent Repayment Order where occupiers pay their rent with the assistance of housing benefit or the housing element of Universal Credit. [6] The Housing and Planning Act 2016 [7] has changed when Rent Repayment Orders can be granted to include the following situations: Breaches of improvement orders and ...

4. Housing Benefit - Wikipedia

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   Housing Benefit is a means-tested social security benefit in the United Kingdom that is intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation. It is the second biggest item in the Department for Work and Pensions ' budget after the state pension, totalling £23.8 billion in 2013–14. [citation needed] The primary legislation governing ...

5. ‘No simple way’ for Ukrainian refugees to find permanent ...

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   The hosts are calling for the Government to take a series of practical steps to help refugees find permanent accommodation, including for Universal Credit housing allowance to be topped up for 12 ...

6. Support for Mortgage Interest - Wikipedia

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   The government can pay the interest up to £200,000 of the mortgage (but if the person is on the Pension Credit then up to £100,000). A standard interest rate is used by the government to calculate the amount of the money by which it will help, that means that the government´s interest rate might differ from the interest rate on the mortgage.

7. Welfare Reform Act 2012 - Wikipedia

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   Long title: An Act to make provision for universal credit and personal independence payment; to make other provision about social security and tax credits; to make provision about the functions of the registration service, child support maintenance and the use of jobcentres; to establish the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission and otherwise amend the Child Poverty Act 2010; and for ...