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• Parents on universal credit may be allowed to claim more for childcare

  09-03-2023 17:12
  
  Increase expected in spring budget, which could also mandate upfront childcare payments from DWPMinisters are considering allowing parents on universal credit to claim back more cash on childcare as a way of easing rising cost of living pressures.The government’s childcare offer is also expected to help boost the number of childminders by making it easier for them to register with agencies rather than signing up via Ofsted. Continue reading...
  
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• New pension plans could give workers £40K retirement boost - but over 50s are missing out

  09-03-2023 14:39 via express.co.uk
  
  The Government has backed plans to expand pension auto-enrolment rules to include younger workers aged 18 to 22.
  
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• ISA millionaire shares secret to savings success - ‘my retirement is sorted!’

  09-03-2023 10:18 via express.co.uk
  
  Becoming an ISA millionaire is no mean feat, but can be achievable through sensible, careful moves.
  
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• State pensioners urged to claim £3,500 retirement boost - are you eligible?

  09-03-2023 10:03 via express.co.uk
  
  Some 800,000 eligible people do not receive the cash boost so Britons are urged to check if they can claim.
  
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• Warning to anyone who banks with Santander, NatWest, Barclays after fraud cases

  09-03-2023 09:45 via express.co.uk
  
  There are numerous phishing scams which attempt to steal bank details and other personal information.
  
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• Now just four weeks to avoid Hunt’s inheritance, capital gains and dividend tax grab

  09-03-2023 09:38 via express.co.uk
  
  The new tax year is exactly four weeks away on April 6 at which point Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is going take even more of our money unless we fight back now.
  
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• Bank offers market-leading 3.4% interest rate on easy access savings account

  09-03-2023 09:37 via express.co.uk
  
  Online savings bank app, Chip, has remained competitive in the easy access savings market with successive interest rate rises since early February.
  
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• Hunt drives over-55s back to work - then HMRC slaps ‘hidden penalty’ on their pensions

  09-03-2023 08:13 via express.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is desperate to get the over-50s back into the workplace and reverse the rush to take early retirement. At which point HMRC swoops.
  
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• UK cost of living champions: women battling the crisis

  09-03-2023 07:00
  
  A group of women helping their communities through the cost of living crisis in the UK, selected as cost of living champions by Save the Children, have been photographed by some of the country’s leading female photographers to mark International Women’s DayFrom providing food and clothing for struggling families to offering financial advice and childcare, each of these women has helped change the lives of others in the toughest economic climate in a generation.Named “cost of li
  
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• ‘It’s cheaper to not work’: childcare shortage in England puts strain on parents

  09-03-2023 07:00
  
  Three families share their struggles with finding and affording nursery places and childminders“Before I even went to my first scan, my unborn baby’s name was down on a nursery waiting list,” says Laura Williams, 31. This was her second child and it had taken months to find a nursery spot for her first daughter, forcing her to take time off work. She had put in a request at five months pregnant but the waiting list had been a year long. “That’s crazy, seeing as a pr
  
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• UK house prices could be stabilising despite falls, say surveyors

  09-03-2023 01:01
  
  Rics data for February shows improvement in new buyer inquiries and salesThe UK housing market remains in decline but there are some signs of stabilisation, with an improvement in new buyer inquiries and sales last month, according to surveyors.Many told the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) that a return of optimism, and lower than expected interest rates, had given the housing market some hope for the coming months after a sluggish start to the year. Continue reading...
  
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