Family & Health

A national money guidance service will launch next April, it was announced today.

Parents of young children were today celebrating a Government U-turn which preserved tax relief on childcare vouchers.

Parents will have to wait until next month's pre-Budget Report before discovering whether the Government intends to push through plans to scrap tax breaks on childcare vouchers.

Nearly six out of 10 parents claim they will have to reconsider working if the Government scraps tax relief on childcare vouchers.

Unmarried couples will be given automatic inheritance rights when one dies without leaving a will, under proposals published today.

The basic state pension rate is likely to increase by £2.40 a week for every pensioner from next April.

Low and middle-income parents will be offered free childcare places for two-year-olds under new Government proposals.

Three hundred thousand university hopefuls getting their A-Level results today face the prospect of graduating with over £23,000 debt, a new report reveals. Yet this misses the real crux for students: the difference between good and bad debt.

The Government will hold talks with MoneySavingExpert.com aimed at closing the black hole which means low incomes families could be worse off taking vouchers designed to cut childcare costs.