Minimum wage to rise by less than 2%
19 March 2012The 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 2012100,000s 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 2012About 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 2012Lenders have been ordered to ensure their letters offering PPI redress are clear, to prevent them misleading victims
'Rethink' over child benefit changes
5 March 2012Chancellor 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 2012Many 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 2012Numerous providers wrongly reject complaints, despite banks putting billions aside to pay claims
Record PPI payouts reached £1.9bn in 2011
22 February 2012The 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 2012PPI 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 2012The 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 2012Headlines 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 2012The 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 2012The 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 2012Self 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 2012George Osborne says it is only fair child benefit is removed from higher-rate taxpayers, after speculation of a rethink
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