Crest Nicholson says that the number of houses it will build this year could fall by up to 11 percent due to soft demand, despite a pickup in activity since January. At its trading update, it said that it expects 1,800 to 2000 over the 12 months to the end of October, versus 2020 for […]

A current account war is heating up with a decision by Santander to offer people £185 to switch to the bank. The deal is open to new and existing customers who open a Santander account through the Current Account Switch Service. The move is the latest by the big banks to offer a range of […]

Martin Lewis has urged people to look out for fake scam adverts warning that fraudsters are trying to “steal your money”. He posted on X: “With the Bitcoin price up, scammers are again using social media ads using my (or others) fake endorsement to pretend you’re buying it. In reality they are just trying to […]

An additional £60 billion will need to be invested in Great Britain’s electricity grid by the end of the decade. The spending, much of it funded through bills, is required to supply and carry the power to keep homes and businesses going, a new report has found. About 4,000 miles of undersea cables and 1,000 […]

A new petition is calling for the DWP to right a state pension policy that means 500,000 people miss out on the yearly increase. The campaign is urging the Government “to increase the pension of all people receiving the state pension no matter where they live in the world”. State pensioners who live in certain […]

A Premium Bonds customer feared they could lose thousands of pounds in savings as they lost access to their account. The worried saver contacted NS&I over X as they couldn’t log in to their account as they had changed their phone number and could not so could not receive the code they need to log […]

People on PIP may be due back pay of up to £12,000 after a recent DWP assessment rule change. Members of a popular online benefits forum have received backdated Personal Independence Payments (PIP) of between £5,000 and nearly £12,000 following a recent rule change by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Some 326,000 PIP […]

The issue of lost pensions will become a “national crisis” in the coming years with £50billion in retirement savings already going unclaimed, a group has warned. Research has found there were 4.8 million pension pots considered ‘lost’ among the UK population in 2023. Almost one in 10 workers thinking they have a lost pension pot […]

PIP recipients with 10-year awards set for ‘light-touch’ reviews from DWP. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed that “in most cases” people nearing the end of their 10-year Personal Independence Payment (PIP) award this year will not need to attend an assessment. This follows the introduction of a new, shorter PIP review […]

The Government faces a black hole in its finances due to the loss of income from fuel duty on petrol, it has emerged. A vote-winning decision by successive Conservative chancellors to freeze the duty charged on fuel has dramatically cut Government receipts. At the same time, the move away from petrol and diesel towards electric […]