In the light of the welfare reforms, Family Mosaic has reported how it has been using Allpay’s swipe cards and payments services to minimise arrears during its participation in one of the government’s direct payment demonstration projects. The contract value was reported to be in the region of £160,000. Family Mosaic has been using Allpay’s…
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Peabody cuts arrears with Mobysoft
Mobysoft’s housing intelligence product RentSense is helping Peabody to provide targeted support to tenants affected by welfare reform. Working with Mobysoft, it has implemented the rent arrears decision engine which uses complex algorithms to analyse accounts and pinpoint which cases need further attention. This gives Peabody the insight to better support those affected, and use…
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Capita offers Pingit payments with Barclays
Capita has integrated Barclays’ Pingit mobile payment app into its payment solutions, and is now offering its existing housing payments customers the option to receive payments from their tenants via the app. Tenants will be able to pay their rent using a smartphone to scan a QR code on their rent statement and make a…
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Habinteg Housing leads European IT project
Tenants at Habinteg Housing Association are in the middle of a ten-month trial of new household technologies as part of the pan-European I-stay@home programme (Housing Technology, November 2012) alongside partners and tenants from France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Habinteg is rolling out the trials in the UK with 22 Habinteg tenants in London taking part….
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Getting involved with Rental Exchange
I have been getting several telephone calls a week recently asking me about Big Issue Invest’s Rental Exchange scheme. The calls are normally from staff working in the welfare reform, money advice or the arrears collection teams, but because I have not had many calls from IT managers, we thought it would be a good…
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CarelineUK leads £1m social isolation project
The telecare provider CarelineUK has received a grant of £320,000 from the UK innovation foundation Nesta and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to help elderly and vulnerable people in the South West connect with their local communities and services. CarelineUK has contributed an equal amount to the ‘Community Channel, South West’ project, with the balance…
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