Life insurance

About 50,000 Aviva customers will be refunded up to £100 each after the insurer admitted they had been overcharged on their premiums.

Funeral costs have risen by an average of 5% but a postcode lottery for charges means bills for burial or cremation in some parts of the country have jumped by nearly a third.

Annuity providers will have to tell savers if they can get a better deal from another provider and how to get it, under proposed new rules outlined by the financial regulator.

I'll never forget three women coming to speak to me, by chance one after another, after an Ideal Home Show talk. All were in their 40s-50s, all had lost their husbands in the last few months, and all were desperate: "I'm in dire straits, where do I start?"

A major 10-year strategy to help consumers prepare for and manage their money has been published today, after research reveals four in 10 adults are not in control of their finances.

Life insurance holders with policies taken out before March 1984 may find their premiums increase or the linked benefits they get reduce from 6 April, as the Government's stopping a long-standing subsidy it pays to providers.

Insurers will be unable to unfairly reject customers' claims because they have given the wrong information about an irrelevant element of their policy after the Insurance Act 2015 was enshrined in law.

Several financial firms have agreed to improve the way they deal with customer complaints and it's hoped others will follow suit, following a review by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Hundreds of thousands of Aviva life insurance and pensions customers could be refunds after "historical errors" left them out of pocket.