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• End of tax year: ISAs, pensions, tax allowances ALL changing TOMORROW - how it affects YOU

  04-04-2019 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  THE end of the tax year is approaching meaning we will soon enter a new financial year. Here’s everything you need to know about changes to ISAs pensions and tax allowances - and how it affects you.
  
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• What Saga's chief executive needed was a five-year plan | Nils Pratley

  04-04-2019 20:49 via theguardian.com
  The insurance market was already shifting when Lance Batchelor took overSaga has been “focused overly on the short term” and must return to its “heritage”, says its chief executive, Lance Batchelor, sounding like a new recruit hired to fix problems ignored by less far-sighted predecessors. But he’s been in charge for half a decade.Batchelor joined in March 2014, led the flotation two months later and set out his “clear vision” as to how to deliver &ldquo
  
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• SILKY’S service gets BOUQUETS from bereaved

  04-04-2019 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  The rising cost of funerals is now being investigated by watchdog the Competition and Markets Authority.
  
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• Power to the people after ENERGY BILL credit refund 

  04-04-2019 18:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  Rumblings of discontent about delays in getting bills and refunds for their outstanding credit balances are reaching Crusader from energy customers who were switched to a new supplier after their old one folded.
  
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• Car insurance premiums fall in advance of whiplash payout reforms

  04-04-2019 17:40 via theguardian.com
  Prices down £100, with drop in registrations also a factor, says comparison websiteReforms to whiplash insurance payouts to stamp out bogus claims have helped to push down car insurance premiums by £100 in the past three months, according to the price comparison site Comparethemarket.com.Whiplash claims cost the motor insurance industry £2bn a year, but new legislation will “ensure spurious or exaggerated whiplash claims are no longer an easy payday”, according to t
  
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• Italy PANICS: Rome 'to SLASH growth forecast for 2019 to just 0.1 percent'

  04-04-2019 16:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  ITALY is set to slash its economic growth forecast for this year to just 0.1 percent after a turbulent few months for the debt-ridden nation, according to reports.
  
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• It’s gender pay gap reporting day. Treat claims of progress with a pinch of salt | Josie Cox

  04-04-2019 16:22 via theguardian.com
  Throwing money at the problem is a short-term fix and a PR stunt. Only long-term, deep-rooted change will benefit womenWouldn’t it be neat if we could put a number on gender inequality? If we could quantitatively measure the challenge women face every day to be treated on a par with their male counterparts – financially, socially and culturally. Then we could track precise progress numerically and hold ourselves accountable undeniably, because statistics are great like that. They don
  
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• Universal Credit: Jobseekers could get 50 PERCENT off train travel with THIS railcard

  04-04-2019 16:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  UNIVERSAL CREDIT claimants could be entitled to half price train travel through a travel card available at the Jobcentre.
  
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• Property platform opens new fast track to the mountains

  04-04-2019 16:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  SnowOnly.com, a new platform where those mad about the mountains and snowsports can buy and sell accommodation and access the latest resort info, aims to shake up the ski property sector with a one-stop shop approach, says founder Mark Lightfoot.
  
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• LYE CROSS FARM: UKEF credit cover boosts CHEDDAR maker’s export drive

  04-04-2019 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sales success from seeking pastures new overseas is paying off for Lye Cross Farm, a handcrafted cheese brand acclaimed for its tasty Cheddars and the good life enjoyed by its dairy herds.
  
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• State pension BOMBSHELL: Half a MILLION workers ‘may be paying UNNECESSARY tax’

  04-04-2019 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  HALF a million older workers may be missing out on thousands of pounds in retirement by paying “unnecessary” tax on their state pension, according to mutual insurer Royal London.
  
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• Most Scottish taxpayers will pay LESS than rest of UK but high earners will be worse off

  04-04-2019 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  MORE than half of taxpayers in Scotland will be paying less income tax than those on the same salary elsewhere in the UK under new rules coming into force this weekend.
  
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• Bitcoin SPIKE: Is this the REAL reason why bitcoin’s price SOARED?

  04-04-2019 13:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  A UK finance chief says the recent rise in bitcoin’s price is being driven by long-term investors hoping history will repeat itself.
  
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• Sales of new cars fall as UK consumers continue to shun diesel

  04-04-2019 12:38 via theguardian.com
  Brexit chaos also behind slow sales in March, traditionally a strong month in the industrySales of new cars fell last month as UK consumers shunned diesel vehicles and Brexit chaos deterred buyers in what is traditionally a strong month for the industry.The number of new car registrations fell by 3.4% to 458,054 in a crucial plate change month that usually encourages buyers into showrooms. It was the lowest number for March in six years. Continue reading...
  
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• 'I've seldom been so disgusted with people': readers respond to segregated play areas

  04-04-2019 12:00 via theguardian.com
  While a few of you argued that blocking social housing tenants from using a communal play area was justified, most expressed disgust and outrage“I think the social housing people SHOULD be kept separate.”So said one reader following a Guardian Cities story last week that revealed children in social housing were blocked from using a communal play area at the Baylis Old School complex on Lollard Street, south London. Continue reading...
  
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• Cutting disability services doesn’t save money. But it does damage lives | Frances Ryan

  04-04-2019 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Withdrawing funding from charities such as Possability People leaves many with nowhere to seek support and adviceIn times of deep inequality and shrinking services, politics is often framed like a David and Goliath battle. You see it in the mothers who this week challenged the London developers trying to stop their “social housing kids” playing in segregated play areas. Or the teachers and parents in Cambridge marching against Westminster’s crippling school funding cuts. But wh
  
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• Opodo manages to book us flight tickets on a barred airline

  04-04-2019 08:00 via theguardian.com
  It was only when we arrived at the airport that we realise CemAir wasn’t operatingLast December my husband and I used Opodo to book return flights with CemAir to Hoedspruit in South Africa from Cape Town. The day before departure last month, I tried to check in through Opodo’s website but it kept throwing me back to the home page. I incorrectly assumed the website was down and we decided to check in at the airport.Continue reading...
  
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