July 2015

Thousands of Family Mobile, IKEA Mobile and Smarter Mobile customers will no longer be able to use their pay-as-you-go (PAYG) service from 31 August, although they will get a refund of unused credit following a U-turn by the provider.

Millions of households are "paying too much" for energy, a year-long investigation has revealed today. But MoneySavingExpert.com has been saying for years that households could save hundreds by switching.

The amount of standard savings protected if your bank, building society or credit union goes bust will fall from £85,000 to £75,000 from January because the pound has got stronger.

About two million existing and former Affinion – often branded Sentinel – customers are set to get a refund for mis-sold card protection after a redress scheme was today given the green light.

Mobile and broadband provider EE has been fined £1 million for failing to tell customers who'd complained about its service that they could take gripes to a free independent arbitrator. But affected customers may still be able to take their complaint further.

Plusnet home phone and broadband customers will be hit with price hikes from 2 September, although affected customers can leave penalty free as a result.

Self-employed parents and those with more than one child who've been waiting for the Government's new Tax-Free Childcare scheme to launch this autumn will now have to wait till 2017, following a Supreme Court judgment today.