Family & Health

A consulation to find ways of supporting shoppers who financially overstretch themselves due to mental health conditions has been launched by a charity set up by MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis.

The methods used by local authorities for collecting unpaid council tax are pushing some people further into debt, according to Citizens Advice.

A Nurofen advert that claimed a product could specifically target joint and back pain has been banned from TV screens.

Branded over-the-counter medicines can cost up to eight times as much as generic equivalents – and even 'own-brand' generics can cost more than three times as much as them – a MoneySavingExpert.com investigation reveals.

If you want to vote in the much-anticipated EU referendum, you can do so even if you've lost or didn't get a polling card, so long as you're registered to vote.

A major overhaul of a system called ParentPay that allows parents to pay for school dinners and other pupil expenses has caused confusion among some of its two million users, with MoneySavingExpert.com aware of claims children have even gone hungry at lunchtime as a result.

A major study by the new Money and Mental Health Policy Institute has found more than 70% of those with mental health problems believe their condition has hit their finances – and almost 60% have taken on additional borrowing as a result.

Parents hoping to take their children on term-time holidays have been dealt a blow after the Department for Education vowed to take its fight to ban them all the way to the Supreme Court.

The deadline to register for a vote in the EU referendum has been extended to 11.59pm on Thursday (9 June) after technical problems with the Government's website meant some people missed the original deadline.

Anyone planning to vote in the local elections on 5 May must register to do so by midnight tonight.