December 2019

A recall of up to 519,000 Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines has been launched, after they were found to pose a fire safety risk – here are your rights if your machine's affected.

The national minimum wage paid to workers aged 25 and over will rise from £8.21/hour to £8.72/hour from April, the Government has announced.

A new online student loan repayment service will launch in 2020 to give graduates more up-to-date information about their loans, largely replacing paper statements.

All bus passengers in England should soon be able to get accurate information about prices, routes and timetables, after the Government announced plans for a new project to make bus firms share data.

Some local authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by up to 4% in April 2020.

British Gas will take on Breeze Energy's 18,000 domestic customers after the small energy supplier stopped trading last week, regulator Ofgem has announced.

RBS and NatWest are still including overdrafts when telling customers their 'available balance', despite new rules from the regulator banning this, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal.

About 730,000 RBS customers are owed compensation worth £40 million after being overcharged on foreign money transfers between 2010 and 2014.

Rules coming into force today mean that a bank can no longer include your overdraft when telling you your 'available balance' or 'available funds'.

Goldman Sachs has today dropped the standard rate on its Marcus savings account to 1.35% for new customers – knocking it off the top of the easy-access best-buy table. Existing customers are unaffected for now, but will also revert to this rate once their 12-month 'bonus' expires.