December
Got a Hotpoint or Indesit washing machine? Your rights as 100,000s of machines are recalled
Whirlpool is preparing to issue a product recall of up to 519,000 Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines found to pose a fire safety risk – here are your rights if your machine's affected
16 January 2020
National living wage to rise to £8.72 in April
The national living wage paid to workers aged 25 and over will rise from £8.21/hour to £8.72/hour from April, the Government has announced
31 December 2019
New online student loan repayment service to launch in 2020
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
30 December 2019
Bus passengers across England to get better info on routes, timetables and fares
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
27 December 2019
Council tax bills may rise by up to 4% from April
Some local authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by up to 4% in April 2020
23 December 2019
British Gas takes on Breeze Energy customers
Breeze Energy, a small energy supplier with about 18,000 domestic customers, has stopped trading, the regulator Ofgem has announced
23 December 2019
NatWest and RBS breaking new overdraft rules
RBS and NatWest are still including overdrafts when telling customers their 'available balance', despite new rules banning this
19 December 2019
Your bank account's 'available funds' can no longer include your overdraft from today
Rules coming into force today mean that a bank can no longer include your overdraft when telling you your 'available balance' or 'available funds'.
18 December 2019
Over 700,000 RBS customers owed compensation after being overcharged on currency exchanges
The customers are owed compensation worth £40 million after being overcharged between 2010 and 2014
18 December 2019
Best-buy Marcus account savings rate cut to 1.35% – what you need to know
The Marcus savings account rate has been cut to 1.35% for new customers
18 December 2019
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24 January 2020
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Octopus to take on Engie's 70,000 customers – here's what you need to know
23 January 2020
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Parents who lose a child to get two weeks of leave under new law
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Parents who suffer the loss of a child under the age of 18 will be legally entitled to two weeks' leave from work under 'Jack's Law', the Government has announced -
Military veterans to get a third off train travel with new railcard
22 January 2020
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Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland to charge up to 49.9% interest on overdrafts from April
22 January 2020
Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland will scrap daily fees for arranged overdrafts from April and instead charge an interest rate based on customers' credit history
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Martin Lewis VIDEO: Should you pay off your Plan 1 student loan?
7 January 2020
If you started university between 1998 and 2012, or since then in Scotland and Northern Ireland, you'll have a Plan 1 student loan. While much is written about whether those with savings should overpay the current English Plan 2 student loans, there's little out there about Plan 1. I wanted to change that, so here's a video explaining how to decide... -
How much the Govt expects you to give your children for university
16 December 2019
Update Note 25 May 2017: The ready reckoners below have been updated with the new 2017/2018 living loan amounts. Also since first writing this blog, and seeing the strength of feeling it attracted, I have written an open letter to the Uni Minister asking him to start telling people about this. Yet sadly received his no we won’t...
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