Law firm Winckworth Sherwood, whose clients include over 200 social housing providers, house builders and funders, reported that even tenants with little or no history of rent arrears could find themselves in arrears by an average of £180 after the introduction of universal credit. Nikki Lynds-Xavier, a partner in Winckworth Sherwood’s housing management team said,…
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Finance Management
Castle launches ‘bedroom tax’ software
Castle Computer Services has developed a simple QlikView-based system that quickly identifies tenants affected by the Housing Reform Act. The Castle system integrates easily with existing housing management systems and any manually collated data to cross-reference tenant details against the Welfare Reform Act criteria to establish which households will receive reduced benefits. It also calculates…
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Allpay’s UC survey – Affordability checks, door-to-door collections and higher arrears
A survey from Allpay has found that affordability checks, door-to-door collection and increasing the number of residents paying rent with a direct debit are just some of the ideas being considered by housing providers to minimise arrears once universal credit is introduced. Based on the views of over 100 housing professionals, Allpay reported that more…
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Better HR & payroll at Havebury Housing with CascadeHR
Havebury Housing Partnership has reported the results of its implementation of an HR and payroll system from Cascade. The new system is saving Havebury Housing’s HR team around 30 hours per week, at the same time as giving more control and flexibility to staff and managers through self-service options and better reporting tools. Havebury Housing…
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Places for People ready for UC and PCI-compliant with Civica
Places for People has reported that it has completed the introduction of a PCI-compliant payment service in advance of the introduction of universal credit. The five-month project to run a hosted version of Civica’s Icon income management system was completed in August 2012. The housing provider originally implemented an on-premise version of the Civica income…
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Are you ready for universal credit?
With universal credit high on everyone’s agenda and as a continuation of the article in the September issue, Housing Technology interviewed representatives from MET, Montal Computer Services, Netcall, Online Centres Foundation, Paragon Community Housing Group and Sovereign Business Integration Group to find out their views on how welfare reform will affect housing providers. Preparing for…
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