Imagine working full-time, every week of the year, and still not earning enough to rent a one-bedroom flat on your own. For millions of people on the minimum wage, that is not a worst case. It is the everyday maths. The gap between the lowest legal wage and the cost of renting has grown so […]
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Imagine being handed £12,500 today to help buy your first home. Now imagine the price is working a year longer before your state pension kicks in. Would you take it? That is the trade-off at the heart of a new idea doing the rounds, and it has people talking. A think tank called the Social
Energy bills are going up again from 1 July. Not by a small amount either. Ofgem has confirmed the price cap is rising 13%, which translates to roughly £221 more a year for a typical household, or an extra £18 a month. Gas bills are jumping 24%. Electricity bills are up 5%. And forecasters at
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Here’s something that feels completely backwards. You’d assume the less you drive, the less you pay for car insurance. Less time on the road, less risk, smaller bill. Makes sense. New MoneySuperMarket data says it doesn’t quite work like that. And the gap is big enough to be worth understanding. So What Does The Data
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The Financial Conduct Authority has published its complaints data for the second half of 2025, naming the banks that received the most customer complaints across the country. The figures make for instructive reading, both as a snapshot of where things go wrong in UK banking and as a reminder of the rights customers have when
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Share to Facebook Pensions minister Torsten Bell has confirmed that around 37,500 customers have been affected by an NS&I scandal involving up to £476m in deposits that the savings giant failed to properly trace. Delivering a statement in Parliament, Bell revealed the Treasury was first made aware of the “operational failure” on 18 December. A
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Share to Facebook The cost of learning to drive is continuing to rise, with the bill for learner drivers set to hit nearly £2,600 in 2026. It means costs will have jumped 30% over the past five years, mainly due to the price of driving lessons that have gone up 37% since 2020. At this
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Share to Facebook Meta has filed lawsuits against four scam operations in Brazil and China who were using AI-generated deepfakes of celebrities and doctors to sell fake investment schemes and dodgy health products on Facebook and Instagram. The legal action, filed on 27 February 2026, marks a significant escalation in the fight against AI-powered scams
Share to Facebook Council tax is one of those bills that just appears every year. You pay it, you don’t really think about it, and then it goes up again. But new data shows that depending on where you live, council tax could be swallowing a wildly different slice of your income – and the
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Share to Facebook The average rent in the UK is now £1,320 a month. That’s £18,840 a year just on keeping a roof over your head, according to Zoopla’s latest rental data. But that average hides an enormous gap depending on where you live. In the North East, the average rent is £760 a month.
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