November 2021

Families with disabled children will be able to withdraw up to £2,500 from Child Trust Funds (CTFs) or junior ISAs (JISAs) without first needing court permission under new proposals to try to reduce the financial burden for parents and guardians with vulnerable kids.  

Teletext Holidays and sister-company Alpharooms are on the brink of collapse, MoneySavingExpert can reveal. Here is all you need to know if you have made a booking with the travel companies.

Victims of authorised push payment (APP) scams could soon be guaranteed refunds from their bank as part of new rules to better protect consumers from financial fraud.

Drivers dropping off passengers at Heathrow Airport will now be charged £5 as part of new rules that come into force today (1 November). But there is a way around it if you have slightly more time on your hands. Here's all you need to know.

Ofgem has ordered Utility Warehouse to pay £1.5m after the company failed to support customers who were struggling with their bills, which the energy regulator said left them "disadvantaged". 

Ten million people are being wrongly advised by the Government to switch their energy tariff at a time when a crisis in the energy market means it would cost them hundreds of pounds to do so, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal.

Certain Post Office savings accounts will no longer accept payments into them from 1 March 2022 unless they're from a linked current account (or if they're via cheque or cash). MoneySavingExpert.com has learnt that 150,000 Post Office savers still need to set-up a linked account before the deadline. 

Universal credit claimants and those in receipt of certain means-tested benefits will get £100 towards their energy bills this winter, the Welsh Government has announced. It comes as part of a new £51 million support package designed to help around 350,000 people with the cost of living. 

Shoppers have just one week to go before Amazon stops accepting Visa credit cards to purchase items on 19 January. However, those with a Visa credit card set as their default payment, or those who only have a Visa credit card in their Amazon wallet, may be able to get a free £10 or £20 account credit if they update their details now.

Facebook has launched a paid-for postal service for its Marketplace, which matches buyers and sellers on a range of items. While the service is free for now, the buyer or seller pays a delivery charge plus the seller faces a 2% fee of total costs. But users can avoid these fees by continuing to arrange delivery or collection themselves.