Aviva

Buying your home insurance about three weeks ahead of the start date is likely to get you the cheapest price from a comparison site, cutting the cost by over 20%, an MSE investigation reveals.

About 50,000 Aviva customers will be refunded up to £100 each after the insurer admitted they had been overcharged on their premiums.

Insurance firm Admiral sent out letters over-stating how much drivers paid on last year's premiums.

Changing a name, address or job title on a car or home insurance policy, or cancelling it completely, can result in costly administration fees of up to £55, but you should challenge excessive fees if you think they're unfair.

Hundreds of thousands of Aviva life insurance and pensions customers could be refunds after "historical errors" left them out of pocket.

Car insurance premiums are too high and should be cut through a number of "far-reaching reforms", the competition watchdog says.

The AA, Sky and Virgin Media are the easiest companies to haggle with, new research by MoneySavingExpert.com shows.

Major pension providers have pledged to disclose charges and costs more clearly and consistently to people in workplace pension schemes.

Car insurance prices fell over the last three months, while home insurance premiums rose, research by the AA has found.

The long-term retired are having to "knock lumps" out of their nest eggs just to get by, pensioners' groups warned today, as a report found saving pots for the over-75s have almost halved in the last two years.