A government scheme offering interest-free loans to those financially vulnerable is set to expand to 20,000 people across the UK as the cost of living crisis continues to worsen.
and some other areas as a trial and will be rolled out across the UK because of its success.
‘We fund items from household essentials and school uniforms through to laptop computers to access education and training, and tools and equipment to help people back into employment,’ Nils says on its website. Fair4All Finance, which partly runs the scheme, was founded by the Treasury and the Department for Culture Media and Sport three years ago to ‘support the financial wellbeing of people in vulnerable circumstances’.
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