We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
If you don’t have enough to live on while you wait for your first payment you may be able to get an advance of your first Universal Credit payment.
Finance for SMEs in the UK with no fixed payments, fixed terms or security required. The advance is repaid as a percentage of future card sales.
How to tax a beneficial loan arrangement for a director or employee.
Get a benefit advance if you've applied for a benefit for the first time and cannot afford to wait for the first payment
Information on a number of schemes designed to avoid Income Tax and National Insurance contributions by using capital advances, joint and mutual share ownership agreements.
Find out about loans that count as qualifying loans.
Guidance for UK companies on winning business from international aid and development projects.
Find out if your proposal to raise investments could qualify for a venture capital scheme and what you need to apply for advance assurance.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab).