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Barclays fined £26m for failing 1.5 million customers in financial difficulty - and borrowers have been refunded
Barclays has been fined £26 million by the financial regulator over the poor treatment of 1.5 million borrowers who had fallen into arrears or financial difficulties over a period of four years - and affected customers have also been refunded
15 December 2020

Victory for graduates as PM pledges to raise student loan repayment threshold
Prime Minister Theresa May has said that the student loan repayment threshold will be increased
1 October 2017

Bankruptcy threshold increases from £750 to £5,000
People with low levels of debt will now be able to avoid bankruptcy as the threshold's risen from £750 to £5,000
9 October 2015

Deutsche Bank to pay compensation for irresponsible mortgage lending
22 February 2011

Mortgage regulation tightened by Treasury
26 January 2011

Record employment leap but jobless total 'worrying'
15 September 2010

Repossessions lowest for over two years
14 September 2010

Home repossessions down but we're 'not out of the woods'
12 August 2010

Government to maintain mortgage rescue schemes
20 July 2010
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200,000 women in line for automatic £13,500 average payout due to state pension error
4 March 2021Around 200,000 women could be owed an average payout of £13,5000 after their state pensions were underpaid, new figures reveal. And these payments will now be paid automatically following a Government review - although women who weren't due the automatic uplift in the first place will still need to claim -
M&S Bank to close all current accounts in August and shut in-store bank branches
4 March 2021M&S Bank is to close all of its current accounts from August, it's been announced. But customers with credit cards, loans and insurance customers are not impacted. Here's what's happening. -
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Budget 2021: Income tax thresholds frozen – meaning many will pay more
3 March 2021Income tax thresholds are to rise from April 2022 and then be frozen for a further fours years until April 2026, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has revealed
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Martin Lewis VIDEO: Should you pay off your Plan 1 student loan?
11 January 2021If 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...