Shepherd’s Bush Housing Group is using new HR and payroll software from Cascade to support its 290-strong workforce, including a wide variety of payroll scenarios. These include different ways of handling sick pay and additional payments for washing machine installations, overnight ‘sleep ins’ for supported housing and out of hours work for maintenance operatives. Katie…
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Finance Management
Getting ready for universal credit
Carrying on from our article on universal credit in March 2013, Housing Technology is taking another look at how housing providers and their suppliers are addressing the introduction of universal credit. Introducing UC for housing providers The introduction of universal credit to housing providers’ tenants is almost certain to increase both the total financial volume…
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Help tenants and protect revenues
Sir – A recent poll conducted on behalf of the NHF found that 67 per cent of tenants affected by welfare reform are finding it hard to pay their rent, 55 per cent had often run out of money by the end of the week or month, 40 per cent of affected tenants had no…
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Keep taking the tablets – Places for People & PIMSS Data Systems
Places for People has just implemented PIMSS Data Systems’ new tablet solution, pimss4tablets, for all of its surveying operations. Dean Moran from Places for People said, “We had been exploring mobile technology for some time, but we found that the available solutions were either unreliable or expensive so when pimss4tablets came along we were keen…
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New housing fraud legislation – Needed or ineffective posturing?
New legislative powers have been recently introduced that will give local councils the power to make banks, building societies, utility and telecommunications companies supply them with data in order to investigate housing fraud, writes Emma Moore, a freelance writer and journalist. The Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act aims to tighten the housing system and…
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In4Systems’ success with Promaster and Schedulemaster products
In4Systems, now part of Orchard, has announced that Golden Gates Housing Trust is now using its new Schedulemaster software, and Longhurst Group and WM Housing Group have both upgraded to the latest version (v4) of its web-based Promaster software for asset management. Gavin Black, senior project manager for business improvement, Longhurst Group, said, “As the…
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