Public Meeting with Positive Money Tower Hamlets & UCAN on Universal Credit & Managed Migration

UCAN and Positive Money Tower Hamlets organised a public meeting, supported from Tower Hamlets Community Housing Association to promote public awareness of universal credit. There are a number of myths and pitfalls members of the public need to know about it; managed migration is one of those things that this meeting is to address.

See you on 11 March 2020 at 7pm at Minerva Community Centre, Bethnal Green.

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