27/10/2020
If you have a mortgage, credit card, car finance or loan, or you pay insurance monthly you need to apply before the 31st of October 2020 and it lasts 3 months. If your finances are impacted due to Covid-19, apply for a payment holiday - meaning you needn't make repayments - by the end of the month and you'll get 3mths almost automatically.
Four key personal finance support pillars were put in place during lockdown - furlough, self-employment grants, a universal credit boost and the right to take 3mth payment holidays on most debts. While as a nation we're far from out of the pandemic's clutches, these schemes are gradually being dismantled. With most, there's little you can do to alter that. Yet with payment holidays, if you get in before they shut, they last 3mths. So everyone should evaluate ASAP if they need one..
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