How can freelancers ensure payment for their work?

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Freelancers need to make sure that they are putting much work in order to make sure that are getting their payments after they must have worked. The first thing to do is to make sure that they don't work for clients based on trust alone. Ask them to drop the upfront before you start. Apart from that, you csn keep the original and final work with yourself until they pay the money before you drop it.