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Future-proof your Revenues Service

Future-proof your Revenues Service

Revenues and Benefits teams are facing constant pressure. Workload is rising while budgets tighten and the pressure to do more with less is relentless. The challenge is clear: how can Services break this cycle?

The answer is automation. Our customers have shown how automating routine processes creates valuable space for reallocating resources to higher-priority collection and intervention work.

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Navigating the Debt Crisis: How Local Councils can Utilise Automation to Aid Collection and Recovery

Navigating the Debt Crisis: How Local Councils can Utilise Automation to Aid Collection and Recovery

Local councils in England are in trouble. Many are heading towards a financial crisis due to years of severe underfunding, which – without action – will see significant cuts to vital public services. In fact, reports suggest that one in four English councils could go bankrupt in the next two years, amid an enormous £54bn funding black hole.

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Are we nearly there yet?

Are we nearly there yet?

The local government automation journey

Automation has been on the local government agenda for several years now and we all have a pretty good understanding of what it is. Or at least we believe we do. But does it have the same meaning to everyone?

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Major Upgrade of Large Landlord Schedule Functionality

Govtech Announces Major Upgrade of Large Landlord Schedule Functionality 

Govtech has announced a significant upgrade of its Landlord’s Schedule digital process automation service for councils. It imports lists of tenancy changes sent weekly by large landlords, typically as spreadsheets or CSV files, and automates processing of the changes in the Revenues system, treating each as an individual notification. Optionally, it also flags these as changes in circumstances in the Benefits system.

Rather than support a limited range of formats for Landlord’s Schedule, Govtech has announced it will extend its transformation routines to import Landlord’s Schedules in whatever format these are issued to Councils. This will remove the need for hundreds of tenancy changes to be manually processed each week. Between one third and one half of all address change notifications received by councils are submitted by large or small landlords. All will now be fully automated by webCAPTURE.

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