Starbucks is to start giving out loans to its UK employees to help them with rental deposits in a bid to ease the high costs of living. The Home Sweet Loan programme will allow Starbucks to give out an interest-free loan to employees moving into a new home, making the coffee chain the first private company in the UK to engage in such an initiative. The scheme was developed by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity.

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