Income & Budgeting A-Z
Guides and tools to help make the most of your income and cut your family's costs
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- Cheap and Free Wills
Low-cost ways to write your will
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- Baby Checklist
47 tricks and tips to save with a baby or toddler
- Boost your income
60+ ways to earn extra money
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- Can you take kids on term-time holidays without being fined?
- Child Benefit
Who can get it and how much you get, plus how to claim
- Childcare Vouchers
Cut childcare costs by £1,000/year
- Christmas savings clubs warning
- Confirm your voting details or risk a £1,000 fine
You have to fill in the Household Enquiry Form by law
- Cheap Contact Lenses
Halve the annual cost of lenses
- Copycat Websites
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- Death happens – plan for it
20+ crucial checks to minimise financial trauma
- Do a money makeover
Overhaul your finances & save £1,000s
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- Earn freebies for testing products
The top 'freebies for feedback' sites
- Education Grants & Courses
Cash to help with your education
- The Electoral Roll
- eBay & Second-Hand Selling Tips
Easily declutter, flog & make money
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- Facebook Selling Tips
Flog on local groups for FREE
- Flog your rubbish for cash
Make money from old loo roll tubes, jars, corks & more
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- Grant Grabbing
Free income - support grants to boost your income
- Guide to probate
How to do it yourself
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- Cheap Hay Fever Tablets
Slash the cost of hay fever remedies
- Help With Childcare Costs
Get £1,000s in universal credit & Tax-Free Childcare
- Housing & Energy Grants
Find free cash for your home
- How to stop spending
The MoneySavingExpert Demotivator
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- Inheritance Tax
Plan to legally save £100,000s on your estate
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- Make Money Online
30+ top paying sites and apps for making extra cash
- Marriage Tax Allowance
Get a tax break worth up to £1,220
- Maternity and Paternity Leave: Your Rights and Pay
Your rights when pregnant, on leave & beyond, incl full coronavirus help
- MoneySaving for dog owners
Incl how to cut costs, adopt from a shelter & 'borrow' a dog
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- Over-50s' MoneySaving
50+ tips to save incl freebies, pensions, equity release
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- Power of Attorney
Plan in case you lose mental capacity
- Prepaid Funeral Plans
What are prepaid funeral plans and are they worth it?
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- Redundancy Help
Step-by-step guide to redundancy
- Rent Out Your Home on Airbnb
21 tips for temporarily renting a home or room to holidaymakers
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- Cheap Sanitary Products
Save money on tampons, pads & reusable sanitary products
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- Free Tax Code Calculator
Check if you're owed a rebate
- Tax Credits
Including details on how to urgently renew your claim
- Tax-Free Childcare
How it works and how to benefit
- Teen Cash Class
Students', parents' and teachers' guides to money
- Things to do with the kids
Days out, free activities, restaurant offers & more
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- Universal Credit
Who can get it, how much you can get and how to apply
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- Weddings On A Budget
50+ tips to cut the cost of dresses, venues, cakes & more
- What to do when someone dies
Death in the family, or loved one? Here's a full checklist
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- Cheap & Free Prescriptions
20+ ways to slash the cost of prescriptions, medicine & flu jabs
- 10-minute Benefits Check
Use our Benefits Calculator to find out what you can get
- 23 Brexit Need-to-Knows
On property, travel, consumer rights etc – now a deal's finally agreed
- Top 25 Online Survey Sites
Get paid cash for surveys and market research
- 26 quick ways to go green and save
Cut costs & make money reducing, reusing and recycling
- 31 MoneySaving tips for disabled people
- 40+ Comping Tips
Find and win competitions with insider tips
Our income and families section has our student MoneySaving info, including whether you should pay off your student loan, and our student loans mythbusting guide. We also have the top student bank accounts and graduate accounts, plus our mature student guide and the education grants and courses that can help.
Our boost your income section has tons of ways to top-up your cash, including more than 60 tips to earn extra money, and our Facebook selling and eBay buying and selling guides. We also have ways to make money online, and how to earn freebies for testing products and the top online survey sites.
In our junior MoneySaving section we have top cards for under-18s, top junior ISAs, child trust funds and the best children’s savings.
We also have info on how to get help with childcare costs, including getting £1,000s in tax credits and tax-free childcare. And we’ve a guide to universal credit and a benefits calculator, which involves a 10-minute check to ensure you’re getting what you’re due.
The health and wellbeing section includes our cheap hay fever tablets guide, cheap gym membership and our free and cheap prescriptions guide.
We also have our mental health and debt booklet which covers how to handle debts when unwell, free debt counselling, specific tips for bipolar disorder and depression sufferers, whether to declare a condition and more.