Marketed as “the first cashback app that pays your rent”, My Rent Rewards has been launched for the UK’s social housing tenants. The app is free for tenants and is available from Apple iTunes and Google Play Store. All the cashback raised from tenants’ purchases from My Rent Rewards’ retail partners is ring-fenced and paid…
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Finance Management
GDPR is here – What happens next?
After over a year of build-up, GDPR has now been in force for over three months. But the real journey for the housing sector is only just beginning, as Daniela Flores, in-house counsel and GDPR officer at Insite Energy, explains. The deadline of 25 May 2018 certainly created a sense of urgency, but the scope…
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Lanarkshire Housing’s RAM component accounting
Lanarkshire Housing Association has implemented component accounting software from Real Asset Management in a drive to tighten its current processes and maintain compliance with FRS 102. LHA had reached a stage where its £28 million asset base, comprising myriad components such as land, roofs, windows, kitchens, heating systems and bathrooms, needed a more rigorous and…
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Solid foundations for procurement decisions
Having spent over 22 years with EY (formerly Ernst & Young), advising on acquisitions, flotations, privatisations, business and share valuations and business investments in general, I have come across numerous reasons for investment, some of which were objective financial or strategic targets and some which were merely idiosyncratic whims of powerful proponents. My team’s role…
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Understanding your tenants to beat the UC challenge
Local authorities and housing providers must use data to provide a faster and more efficient service for the tenants they serve, says Gary Bell, Civica’s executive director for managed services. Universal credit, the government’s ‘flagship reform’ of the benefits system, was introduced to make welfare payments easier for local authorities and housing providers. It was…
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Moat saves £800k with Mobysoft
Moat Homes has reduced its tenants’ rent arrears by £800,000 within a year of deploying Mobysoft’s RentSense software as a replacement for a dated CRM system in advance of the full introduction of universal credit. Moat’s income team was originally using its CRM system to manage their arrears workload. However, the combination of the introduction…
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