An open letter calling for MPs to have a vote on compensation for WASPI women has been backed by 150,000 people in just 10 days. The letter to Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt is urging Parliament to hold a debate and vote on the WASPI (Women against state pension inequality) issue. A recent report from the […]
Watchdogs have been told to get tough on energy firms that are failing to tackle the crisis of smart meters that have become ‘dumb’. It emerged last week that as many as 4 million of the meters are failing to work as designed. In theory, the smart meters supply real time information on energy use […]
Find out how much you will pay for energy in April as the new price cap comes into force. Millions of households will see their energy bills drop this month, with Ofgem’s price cap dropping from April 1. The old cap meant that the average home was paying £1,928 a year on a typical dual-fuel […]
The number of mortgage approvals made to home buyers increased from 56,100 in January to 60,400 in February, according to Bank of England figures. Approvals for remortgaging also increased, from 30,900 to 37,700 during this period, according to the Money and Credit report. The annual growth rate for consumer credit slowed from 9.0 percent to […]
Inflation in shop prices fell to its lowest since December last year, with the decline being fuelled by lower food costs and healthy retailer rivalry. According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and NielsenIQ’s Shop Price Index, March saw shop prices rise by 1.3 percent on the previous year. This is less than February’s increase […]
New data from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reveals that 3.5 million people across Great Britain, including nearly 219,000 in Scotland, are now claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP). This is the highest number of people ever to receive this disability benefit. However, this total doesn’t include the 109,385 Scots who have switched from […]
There are many reasons to support Spender Books (SB), one of the UK’s small independent publishers enriching readers’ lives, and in its case with engaging literary fiction and memoirs. But another small marketing business StreetPR did it no favours when it failed to follow through on a promotional campaign SB paid for. This left the […]
The increase in the National Living Wage will bring an unseen boost to the pension contributions of many working Britons. The wage is to increase 9.7 percent from the start of April, rising to £11.44, with the scheme also to be extended to workers aged 21 and 22. Pensions experts at Aegon have calculated that […]
Just over one in ten people with wills have included one or more digital assets, new research shows. New research from Canada Life found that half (49 percent) of UK adults have a will, and just 12 percent of those have included at least one digital asset. Digital assets include things like physical devices such […]
Millions of young people using Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) to fund their lifestyles are unaware of the financial perils involved. Despite BNPL being the second most common form of borrowing, half of people aged 18-34 do not understand it can lead to debt. Some 46 percent did not understand that these could generate fees […]
