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• DWP benefits you can no longer claim once you reach State Pension age

  06-01-2025 10:00 via express.co.uk
  
  The DWP has released new figures showing that the State Pension is providing crucial financial support to 12.9 million people across Great Britain
  
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• UK house prices dip for first time since March, says Halifax

  07-01-2025 10:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Britain’s biggest mortgage lender says say affordability could hamper further rises in the months aheadBusiness live – latest updatesUK house prices fell by 0.2% month on month in December – the first monthly drop since March – according to Britain’s biggest mortgage lender.Data released by Halifax, Britain’s biggest mortgage lender, also showed that the price of the average home climbed by 3.3% last month compared with the same period a year earlier – d
  
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• Questions to ask yourself ... to sort out your finances

  07-01-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Laura Whateley, author of Money: A User’s Guide, offers tips on how to make the most of what you’ve gotPeople who don’t put in the legwork get charged more. Savings accounts often give a better interest rate for the first year, then it drops dramatically, because they want you to just sign up and forget about it. With mobile phones you pay off the handset within a couple of years, but keep paying a higher fee because you haven’t shopped around. Put a note in your calendar
  
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• My identity had been stolen but Three failed to respond

  07-01-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  I’ve always had a Vodafone account but a law firm stated I owed money to Three and we are caught in a nightmareA fraudulent phone contract has been taken out in my husband’s name and he is now threatened with court action.At the start of May he received a letter from a law firm stating he owed money for a Three phone contract. He explained that he’d never bought a phone from that company – he has been with Vodafone since 2001. Continue reading...
  
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• Ignore Musk, ignore the critics – you’ll feel the benefit of Labour’s policies in your pocket before long | Polly Toynbee

  07-01-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite the doom-mongers, the outlook for the economy, the NHS and vital services is good. Coming months should bear that outLook up, despite the bleak midwinter, the flu crisis and this dismal mood of political cynicism. Despite, too, the daily doom that pumps out of the most hostile media any new government ever faced, savaging whatever Labour does in extravagant language borrowed from Elon Musk. Good grief, the ever-rightward travelling Times just published a leader praising Musk’s wild
  
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• Rural internet deserts in England and Wales to finally get fast broadband

  07-01-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Government announces new contracts to install gigabit level fibre coverage for 131,000 households and businessesThe last corners of England and Wales yet to be covered by a £5bn push to widen fast broadband could finally get access to rapid downloads, streaming and video calls after the government announced £289m in new taxpayer-funded contracts enabling coverage.After some people in broadband blackspots were forced to turn to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite-enabled internet con
  
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• What are my rights if wintry UK weather has disrupted my travel?

  06-01-2025 19:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Snow, ice and flooding have resulted in flights and trains being delayed or cancelled, and roads being blockedThe winter weather has caused severe travel disruption in some parts of the UK, with flights and trains cancelled and roads blocked. We look at your rights if the snow or flooding has disrupted your journey. Continue reading...
  
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• Voters must work 30 years longer than their MP for the same pension

  06-01-2025 14:36 via express.co.uk
  MPs earn a basic salary of £91,346 plus expenses
  
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• DWP benefit claimants face major changes as payments could stop

  06-01-2025 14:19 via express.co.uk
  
  The Department for Work and Pensions is set to end Tax Credits payments in April.
  
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• ‘I’m a savings expert - this simple money challenge can help you save £1,456 in 2025'

  06-01-2025 14:18 via express.co.uk
  
  Aileen Robertson, the head of savings at Atom Bank, has shared her top tips to boost your pot this year.
  
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• Angela Rayner plan 'will harm jobs and drive people onto benefits'

  06-01-2025 14:01 via express.co.uk
  
  One of the main concerns cited in the Bill is changes to unfair dismissal legislation
  
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• Cold weather payment update: Full list of 18 more postcodes that qualify for DWP cash

  06-01-2025 13:33 via express.co.uk
  
  The Department for Work and Pensions has issued a new cold weather payment update, with 18 postcodes across the UK now qualifying
  
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• Britons 'urged' to seek help as 'thousands' of homes qualify for Winter Support Fund

  06-01-2025 12:19 via express.co.uk
  
  People can claim anything from energy bill and food vouchers to heated blankets and duvets from the fund.
  
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• Expert urges pensioners to shop around or risk losing £1,500

  06-01-2025 12:13 via express.co.uk
  
  The older you are when you buy an annuity the better deal you normally get, because the insurance company is not expecting you to live as long.
  
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• How to check if your postcode is eligible for DWP cold weather payment

  06-01-2025 12:08 via express.co.uk
  
  Certain households receive a financial boost from the DWP when temperatures fall below zero.
  
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• Every UK pensioner handed up to £4,000 boost thanks to DWP letter

  06-01-2025 12:06 via express.co.uk
  
  The Department for Work and Pensions is set to send a vital letter for those who could be in for an income boost of more than £4,000 this year.
  
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• Rachel Reeves on knife edge as latest blunder wastes another £6billion of our money

  06-01-2025 12:05 via express.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves claimed she would plug the £22billion black hole in the nation's accounts but all she has done is make it deeper and darker.
  
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• ‘Upsetting and frightening’: what’s really behind the door of your holiday rental?

  06-01-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Accommodation websites stand accused of not carrying out adequate checks on hosts, turning stays into nightmaresBecky Stewart* and her partner were getting ready for the first full day of their short break in Barcelona when a group made up of police, social workers, council staff, a judge and a locksmith came into their flat and told them to leave within two minutes.It transpired that the place they were staying in, along with other travellers who had taken rooms, was an unlicensed rental proper
  
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• DWP bank checks warning as wrong people could be targeted

  06-01-2025 11:26 via express.co.uk
  
  The new measures should include an appeal system for claimants, an expert has said.
  
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• How to get the most out of your Christmas gift vouchers

  06-01-2025 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Whether a physical version, or an e-card, check the T&Cs to make sure you extract maximum value from themThe first thing to do is read the small print (it could be very small if it is squeezed on the back). Continue reading...
  
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• FTSE 100 bosses make more money in 2025 by noon today than average worker in a year

  06-01-2025 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bosses to hit milestone on third working day of 2025 with median hourly pay of £1,298, says High Pay CentreThe chief executives of FTSE 100 companies will have made more money in 2025 by midday on Monday than their average worker does in a whole year, according to the latest measure of inequality between bosses and their employees.Median pay for FTSE 100 chief executives is £4.22m, 113 times the median full-time worker’s pay of £37,430, according to the High Pay Centre, a
  
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• Give working parents help with childcare and commuting costs, UK thinktank says

  06-01-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Child poverty plan must address the 70% of families with at least one parent in work, Resolution Foundation saysLabour must offer extra support to working parents, including with childcare and commuting, if it is to fulfil its promise of cutting child poverty, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has argued.The government’s manifesto promised an “ambitious strategy” on child poverty, and ministers have said they will publish a 10-year plan in the spring. Continue reading...
  
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• DWP four PIP rules that could give you £798 a month and not affect your savings

  06-01-2025 01:01 via express.co.uk
  
  The DWP says you do not have to have a physical disability to get payments as you might eligible with mental health issues such as anxiety
  
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• Octopus Energy customers given £145 for making one change

  05-01-2025 19:48 via express.co.uk
  
  Octopus customers can make big savings on their energy bill.
  
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• Amazon aims to branch into UK internet market with satellite broadband plan

  05-01-2025 18:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Proposed space launches within next two years could ultimately deliver mobile phone signal even to most remote areasAmazon is hoping to offer a satellite broadband service in the UK within the next two years as it prepares to launch a constellation of spacecraft that could ultimately deliver a mobile signal even to the most remote areas.The tech company, founded by Jeff Bezos, said it would seek access to British radio frequencies “over the next one to two years” as it prepares to of
  
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• Bright future beckons for organic health hero Biona

  04-01-2025 16:10 via express.co.uk
  
  A healthier, fitter you this yeae- if that's the plan then UK organic brand Biona has a feast of nutritious, plant-based foods and drinks to keep your resolutions on track and help the planet too.
  
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• Fab FOUR salon is a cut above for beauty seekers

  04-01-2025 15:26 via express.co.uk
  
  Perfect for new year new year dreams, hair and beauty salon business FOUR is a shining example of what can be achieved by women entrepreneurs for their customers
  
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• It’s the pits! Would you pay £35 for one of the new, posh deodorants?

  04-01-2025 14:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Fashionistas are forking out a fortune as the humble anti-perspirant goes high endOnce humble, bought for a quid and used with little pleasure, deodorant has done an about-face. Where it used to be a simple case of misting armpits with Lynx or spritzing with Sure, in recent times the world of deodorant has evolved to offer products that cost as much as fancy face serums and smell as good as fine scents.Encapsulating deodorant’s shift from lowly to elevated is To My Ships, a brand launched
  
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• Urgent warning as economic crisis looms because Reeves ‘cannot make the damn sums work’

  04-01-2025 11:16 via express.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves is scaring the hell out of economists. They say she's driving the UK into a needless crisis because she can't get her maths right.
  
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• Red alert as economic crisis looms because Reeves ‘cannot make the damn sums work’

  04-01-2025 11:16 via express.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves is scaring the hell out of economists. They say she's driving the UK into a needless crisis because she can't get her maths right.
  
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