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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, income-based Jobseeker's Allowance, and Income Support; Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit; and Housing Benefit.
People claiming universal credit and working less than 18 hours a week, will be expected to look for more work, after a change to the welfare system that starts on Monday. Before now, claimants ...
Universal basic services ( UBS) is an idea [1] of a form of social security in which all citizens or residents of a community, region, or country receive unconditional access to a range of free, basic, public services, funded by taxes and provided by a government or public institution. The basic services commonly include: [2] Further services ...
Universal default is a now-banned practice in the United States financial services industry whereby a creditor would change the terms of a loan from the normal terms to the default terms (i.e. the terms and rates given to those who have missed payments on a loan) when that lender is informed that their customer has defaulted with another unrelated lender, even though the customer has not ...
The Universal Service Fund ( USF) is a system of telecommunications subsidies and fees managed by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intended 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 1996.
Allied Universal. Headquarters. Santa Ana, California, U.S. Universal Protection Service was a private security company in the United States. It was part of Santa Ana, California -based Universal Services of America, which merged in 2016 with fellow security service provider AlliedBarton to form Allied Universal. [1]
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 ...
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 their credit, debit ...