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Consumers are set for stronger rights under the Government's draft Consumer Rights Bill – but the new law could be too difficult to enforce, MoneySavingExpert.com creator Martin Lewis told MPs today.

Payday loan firms including Wonga are to start using a new "real-time" information sharing service about consumers' borrowing habits.

Thousands of social housing tenants have been wrongly hit by the so-called bedroom tax and are due money back, it has emerged.

Motorists could see insurance premiums cut by up to £15 a year after the Government announced all driving licence records will be put online.

Millions of Scottish Power and Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) customers will see their bills fall, after Government moves to cut the cost of energy tariffs – but the savings will just trim both firms' winter price hikes, so the net result is that prices are still up.

Passengers have been hit by higher rail fares today, with annual season tickets rising by an average of 3.1%.

People will be able to pay in a cheque by sending a smartphone image of it to their bank under Government proposals to bolster the long-term future of the payment method.

Government departments have been told to stop using premium-rate phone lines for core public services.

Child Trust Funds can be transferred into junior Isas from April 2015, the Government has announced.