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Family finances

June 2024

  • Minreet Kaur in a white blouse and red trousers (right) with her mother in a floral sleeveless blouse

    Life as an unpaid carer in the UK: ‘I feel unseen and unheard – and politicians don’t offer much’

  • a woman hands a plate of food to a smiling 80 -year old woman at the dinner table

    Unpaid UK carers ‘face financial hit that can last decades’

  • women graduates in purple-edged graduation capes and mortar board hats

    Council tax: final-year students warned they could get surprise bills

  • Paddington Bear

    ‘More than my weekly wages’: London’s Paddington attraction and the growing cost of kids’ days out

May 2024

  • Banknotes and bank cards held up in a black leather wallet

    Are consumers any better off after 14 years of Conservative government?

  • a smart meter next as a woman pours herself a cup of tea from a freshly boiled kettle

    Almost a third of household smart meters not working properly, says Citizens Advice

April 2024

  • Large crowds at a march. Banners include 'austerity is failing', 'austerity that's enough' and 'no cuts'.

    Real terms average pay lower in most UK local authorities than in 2008, TUC finds

  • Torsten Bell

    Hidden gems from the world of research
    It’s immoral to push children into poverty, but that’s what the benefits cap does

    Torsten Bell
  • Piggy bank with calculator

    UK consumers feeling more confident about finances, says NatWest boss

  • A couple going through documents and using a digital tablet at a table together at home.

    ‘Every penny has a purpose’: the rise of zero-based budgeting

  • UK heat pump adopters open up homes to encourage others to ditch gas boilers

  • Paying bills a struggle for 7.4 million UK consumers, regulator finds

  • ‘A deeply broken system’: is it time England abandoned council tax?

  • Labour urged to end two-child benefits cap as research reveals policy pushing families into poverty

  • Salary sacrifice: how British workers can take home more by getting paid less

  • UK families to benefit by up to £3,000 from changes to child benefit tax

  • Rise in UK minimum wage leaves millions short of real living wage

March 2024

  • Female lawyers protest outside the Garrick Club in London.

    Brief letters
    We don’t need the Garrick. We can all club together at a pub

    Brief letters: Garrick membership | Pupils planting trees | One for the record books | Losing Tories | Rooting for magnolia | Cleaning up
  • the e.on logo and its smartphone app icon

    Energy bills: standing charges are not standing still

    Despite a 12.3% cut in April’s energy price cap, there is an important fixed element in your bill that is rising again
  • Council tax discounts<br>File photo dated 27/03/19 of a council tax bill. People suffering with severe mental impairments face missing out on financial help with council tax because of their postcode, according to the Alzheimer's Society. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday April 10, 2019. The Welsh Government has become the first to standardise information it gives about council tax discounts and rebates for people who are Severely Mentally Impaired and to offer a single application form across Wales. See PA story MONEY Alzheimers. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

    Council tax, broadband, and dental charges: how to weather the April price rises

    There’s been some good news about inflation falling, but be warned: there are still big price hikes around the corner
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