Financial Conduct Authority to be given new powers to curb exorbitant interest rates charged on payday loans
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Oct 01
The best credit card deals to suit your needs
Loyalty schemes, cashback, 0% on balance transfers, travelling abroad: which credit card to get depends on your situation
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Sep 10
In Cameron’s Britain, payday loan companies are free to shaft the poor
Charging extortionate rates of interest, these companies are robbing the poor. I know, because I worked undercover for one
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Sep 05
Save the Children launches first ever campaign to help UK families in poverty
Save the Children is seeking to raise £500,000 to help children from low-paid working families, who it says are going without hot meals and winter clothes
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May 15
Payday loans: bishop hits out at ‘sinful’ interest rates
Bishop of Durham says interest rate of 4,000%, as charged by Wonga, has been considered ‘usurious’ since the time of Moses
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Homeless families and the B&B crisis
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by eJay
October 15, 2012
Despite guidelines that say bed and breakfast accommodation is no place for children, the number of families having to live in hostels is soaring. Some of the people trapped in them talk about their plight
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