Budget

Eligible parents of children as young as nine months in England are to be offered up to 30 hours of government-funded childcare each week. Meanwhile, parents who get universal credit will see the maximum amount they can claim for childcare costs raised. Both announcements form a package of new measures designed to help parents, revealed by the Chancellor in the Budget.

The maximum annual tax-free amount you can save into a pension once you've taken money out of it will rise from £4,000 to £10,000 from 6 April. Meanwhile, the amount you can save into your pension tax-free each year is also set to rise, as is the amount you can save into pensions over a lifetime. The shake-up was announced by the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in today's Budget. 

New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has reversed a host of tax reforms and scaled back energy help previously announced in September's mini-budget in an effort to reassure markets and ease financial turmoil that has triggered a spike in mortgage rates. Here's what the shake-up means for you.

The furlough scheme will now run until the end of September and self-employed income support will be extended to 600,000 who were previously excluded, the Chancellor has confirmed in today's Budget.

HSBC is launching a new app that can show you your bank accounts, credit cards, mortgages and loans from 21 different banks in one place.

Energy bills are rising at the fastest rate since early 2014 and contributing to a 2.4% increase in a typical household's average bills and expenses, this month's MSE Bills Tracker reveals.

MoneySavingExpert.com has launched a new monthly Bills Tracker which uses official data to show how a typical household's bills and expenses change each month – and the first figures show average costs increased by 2.1% in the 12 months to July 2017.

Car hire companies have been ordered to treat customers more fairly after the European Union found complaints about rental firms have doubled in recent years.

Holidaymakers who have paid to rent a car via the agency Atlas Choice are reporting that bookings have been unexpectedly cancelled, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal – with a number of customers reportedly left car-less and stranded at foreign airports.

Millions of households and motorists will see a steep rise in the cost of new insurance policies taken out or renewed from now on, after Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) was hiked from 6% to 9.5% at the start of the month.