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The housing market has remained "surprisingly resilient" this month, Nationwide said today, as the average price of a property increased by 0.4% month-on-month.

Automatic pensions enrolment for small businesses is to be delayed a year, Pensions Minister Steve Webb said today.

British Gas has today formally announced its new 'simpler tariff' regime.

The Government should consider introducing a "graduated" state pension to allow people to draw some cash before they retire, which could help encourage them to continue working for longer, a thinktank recommended today.

Wannabe home buyers with small deposits who want a newly-built property will get a helping hand under a new Government scheme.

Energy watchdog Ofgem vowed today to crack down on suppliers who frustrate small businesses from switching to another provider.

The Government has today announced a voluntary package of measures, agreed with the major banks, to help limit overdraft charges when a customer exceeds their limit.

Shops will no longer be able to offer instant inducements to customers to take out expensive store cards, under a voluntary code agreed between banks, the British Retail Consortium and the Government.

Housing Minister Grant Shapps recently called for lenders to offer 30-year fixed rate mortgages and received a barrage of abuse. Simon Webster, from mortgage broker Facts & Figures, below, says it wasn't all nonsense.

The Government could be about to renege on plans to increase some state benefit payments in line with September's inflation rate.