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With the advent of phone and internet banking and ATMs, people need venture in their bank less and less. When did you last go in to your bank? (excluding to use a cash machine). Pick the highest up the list that applies.
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5 April 2010
Poll started 30 March 2010 Soon every employee must pay into a pension - will you opt out? From 2012, every employee in the UK will AUTOMATICALLY contribute 1% (rising to 4%) of salary to a private pension via their payroll and employers and tax benefits will match it. Find out more in Martin’s Not got a pension? You will in two years blog. Pros: You’ll have a pension & it’s effectively a payrise as your employer has to put cash in Cons: Less in your paypacket. Your take home pay will be reduced due to the contribution. Which is closest to your view (be as honest as possible)
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28 March 2010
Poll Started 22 March 2010: Who do you support in the BA strike? Nothing is ever black or white, but if you had to side one way over the latest BA strike – where would it be (see the BA statements and the Union statements)? Which of these deliberately stark options is nearest your view?
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21 March 2010
Poll Started 15 March 2010: How much pocket money do you give your kids? Please select the answer that’s closest to your view, depending on your kids' age and how you operate pocket money. How much weekly pocket money do your kids get on average? (If you’ve kids in both age brackets please just vote for one of them)
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14 March 2010
Annual UK house rises of around 4.5% have been reported for the last year, though figures for last month show a slight dip. So it's time for our regular poll to ask you where you think they’ll go next. What do you think’ll happen to UK house prices over the next 12 months?
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8 March 2010
From September 2011, personal finance education will become a compulsory part of Personal, Social, Health Education (PSHE), itself part of the national curriculum (see Martin’s a nation educated into debt, but never about debt editorial comment for more).
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2 March 2010
Poll Started 22 February 2009: What’s the hottest high st. discount voucher? The Discount Vouchers page is nearing 5 million views, so we thought we’d try to find out which vouchers you rate most so we can focus our efforts on bringing you them... If you could only grab one 40% off voucher, which high st. retailer would you pick from the following?
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21 February 2010
Poll Started 15 February 2010: Would you work even if it meant LESS income? If you were unemployed, struggling on benefits and were offered a job, but taking it resulted in LESS overall income (assuming no other likely prospects), would you:
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14 February 2010
Poll started 08 February 2010: What’s the most annoying financial advert? Advertisers are adopting ‘lets be funny with money’ techniques, and these ads are so often repeated it can feel like there’s no escape. So this week for a bit of fun, we want to know which of the following current ads you find the most irritating. Where available, the ads are linked to below.
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7 February 2010
Poll Started 01 February 2010: Are you a millionaire or an anti-millionaire? To answer this question, take the total value of your assets (everything you own – house, savings, investments, business, pension fund, car etc), THEN SUBTRACT your total outstanding debts (mortgage, credit cards etc).
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31 January 2010
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