Minimum wage to rise by less than 2%

19 March 2012

The 1.8% rise is way below the most recent RPI inflation figures which recorded a 3.9% rise in January

Families must prepare for tax credits cut

13 March 2012

100,000s of benefits recipients will see a dramatic fall or even an end to their state hand-outs under next month's cuts

HMRC sends wrong benefits warning to 1m families

9 March 2012

About a million letters with wrong information on child tax credits have been sent, which could put off claimants

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FSA orders banks not to mislead over PPI compensation

6 March 2012

Lenders have been ordered to ensure their letters offering PPI redress are clear, to prevent them misleading victims

'Rethink' over child benefit changes

5 March 2012

Chancellor George Osborne is poised to water down plans to strip higher earners of child benefit, it has been reported

17,000 hit with incorrect late tax return fines by HMRC

29 February 2012

Many taxpayers who filed a self assessment return on time have been wrongly threatened with a £100 fine

Banks wrongly reject PPI complaints, despite admitting mis-selling

28 February 2012

Numerous providers wrongly reject complaints, despite banks putting billions aside to pay claims

Record PPI payouts reached £1.9bn in 2011

22 February 2012

The FSA says £441m was paid out in December, the highest monthly total on record, completing the total for the year

Could payday loans be the next mis-selling scandal?

17 February 2012

PPI mis-selling is all over the news, but one prominent consumer lawyer thinks payday and secured loans could be next

Unemployment hits 16-year high

15 February 2012

The figure jumped by 48,000 in the three months to December to 2.67 million, the highest since the end of 1995

'I'm on benefits but I'm no scrounger'

14 February 2012

Headlines about benefits claimants being scroungers are common. Here, one recipient with a rare tumour hits back

Citizens Advice to gain after MoneySavingExpert wins trade mark battle

13 February 2012

The charity will benefit after a claims company which cold-called people, using a similar name to us, paid damages

Benefit cap 'could hurt couples'

3 February 2012

The Government's benefit cap may encourage couples to live apart, a think-tank says

Two days' grace for self assessment taxpayers to avoid a fine

26 January 2012

Self assessment taxpayers have been given longer to escape a £100 fine for filing their return late

Chancellor: child benefit cut will go ahead

13 January 2012

George Osborne says it is only fair child benefit is removed from higher-rate taxpayers, after speculation of a rethink

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