Financial Conduct Authority to be given new powers to curb exorbitant interest rates charged on payday loans
Tag Archive: Family finances
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Oct 01
Minimum wage for over-21s rises to £6.19
Pay for workers aged between 18 and 20 frozen at £4.98 an hour, which TUC calls a particular blow to younger people
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Sep 12
Families plan to cut back on heating this winter to reduce energy bills
Heating cuts planned by households this winter, even though millions of pounds in energy efficiency grants lie unclaimed
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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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Aug 25
One in 10 tenants barred from changing energy supplier
Research from uSwitch shows that landlords and letting agents are illegally stopping 10% of tenants switching utility provider
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Oct 15
Homeless families and the B&B crisis
News
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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