The phrase "avoiding arrears" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to finance, payments, or obligations where one aims to prevent falling behind on payments or debts.
Example: "To maintain a good credit score, it is essential to focus on avoiding arrears in your monthly payments."
Alternatives: "preventing late payments" or "staying current on payments".
A year ago, the estate office hired another full-time employee to help people avoid rent arrears.
As Joseph Rowntree Foundation says, unfreezing housing benefit is critical in order to avoid the arrears that are driving some evictions and homelessness.
But the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations SFHAA) said only £10m had been made available to help tenants avoid rent arrears.
The majority of losses to follow up were due to moving house, usually to obtain better housing, to return to the family village, or to avoid rent arrears.
By helping residents keep on top of their finances, housing providers can reduce eviction rates for rent arrears, avoiding court costs and keep cash flowing for continued service provision.
"Either the I.A.D.B. finds a legal innovation to roll over the maturity of $717 million" due in less than a week or "Argentina uses its international reserves to avoid falling into arrears" with one of the only creditors with which it still has good relations.
For tenants hit by rent shortfalls, the only way to avoid falling into arrears is to move to cheaper areas, apply for discretionary housing payments (a payment from the local authority for people who need extra help with housing costs) or to pay the extra rent from other earnings or benefits.
The committee also agreed that "in addition, this council resolves that for a transitional period of one year, where the appropriate senior officer is satisfied that tenants who are subject to the bedroom tax are doing all they reasonably can to avoid falling into arrears, it will use all legitimate means to collect rent due, except eviction".
The banks avoided subprime lending and arrears rates remain tiny.
Joanna Kennedy, chief executive of the charity Z2K, said: "Our experience helping those affected by the original cap shows that many of those families will have to reduce even further the amount they spend on feeding and clothing their children, and heating their home to avoid falling into rent arrears and facing eviction and homelessness".
