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• What are my rights if wintry UK weather has disrupted my travel?

  06-01-2025 19:51
  
  Snow, ice and flooding have resulted in flights and trains being delayed or cancelled, and roads being blockedThe winter weather has caused severe travel disruption in some parts of the UK, with flights and trains cancelled and roads blocked. We look at your rights if the snow or flooding has disrupted your journey. Continue reading...
  
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• Voters must work 30 years longer than their MP for the same pension

  06-01-2025 14:36 via express.co.uk
  MPs earn a basic salary of £91,346 plus expenses
  
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• DWP benefit claimants face major changes as payments could stop

  06-01-2025 14:19 via express.co.uk
  
  The Department for Work and Pensions is set to end Tax Credits payments in April.
  
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• ‘I’m a savings expert - this simple money challenge can help you save £1,456 in 2025'

  06-01-2025 14:18 via express.co.uk
  
  Aileen Robertson, the head of savings at Atom Bank, has shared her top tips to boost your pot this year.
  
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• Angela Rayner plan 'will harm jobs and drive people onto benefits'

  06-01-2025 14:01 via express.co.uk
  
  One of the main concerns cited in the Bill is changes to unfair dismissal legislation
  
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• Cold weather payment update: Full list of 18 more postcodes that qualify for DWP cash

  06-01-2025 13:33 via express.co.uk
  
  The Department for Work and Pensions has issued a new cold weather payment update, with 18 postcodes across the UK now qualifying
  
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• Britons 'urged' to seek help as 'thousands' of homes qualify for Winter Support Fund

  06-01-2025 12:19 via express.co.uk
  
  People can claim anything from energy bill and food vouchers to heated blankets and duvets from the fund.
  
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• Expert urges pensioners to shop around or risk losing £1,500

  06-01-2025 12:13 via express.co.uk
  
  The older you are when you buy an annuity the better deal you normally get, because the insurance company is not expecting you to live as long.
  
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• How to check if your postcode is eligible for DWP cold weather payment

  06-01-2025 12:08 via express.co.uk
  
  Certain households receive a financial boost from the DWP when temperatures fall below zero.
  
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• Every UK pensioner handed up to £4,000 boost thanks to DWP letter

  06-01-2025 12:06 via express.co.uk
  
  The Department for Work and Pensions is set to send a vital letter for those who could be in for an income boost of more than £4,000 this year.
  
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• Rachel Reeves on knife edge as latest blunder wastes another £6billion of our money

  06-01-2025 12:05 via express.co.uk
  
  Chancellor Rachel Reeves claimed she would plug the £22billion black hole in the nation's accounts but all she has done is make it deeper and darker.
  
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• ‘Upsetting and frightening’: what’s really behind the door of your holiday rental?

  06-01-2025 12:00
  
  Accommodation websites stand accused of not carrying out adequate checks on hosts, turning stays into nightmaresBecky Stewart* and her partner were getting ready for the first full day of their short break in Barcelona when a group made up of police, social workers, council staff, a judge and a locksmith came into their flat and told them to leave within two minutes.It transpired that the place they were staying in, along with other travellers who had taken rooms, was an unlicensed rental proper
  
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• DWP bank checks warning as wrong people could be targeted

  06-01-2025 11:26 via express.co.uk
  
  The new measures should include an appeal system for claimants, an expert has said.
  
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• DWP benefits you can no longer claim once you reach State Pension age

  06-01-2025 10:00 via express.co.uk
  
  The DWP has released new figures showing that the State Pension is providing crucial financial support to 12.9 million people across Great Britain
  
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• O2 was tricked into transferring my number to fraudsters. Could I have it back?

  06-01-2025 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘Sim-swap’ fraud has affected three readers – and dealing with their mobile phone company hasn’t been easyWhat some O2 customers may have wanted for Christmas was a phone number, since long-cherished ones have had a habit of going astray. Whether they got lucky is another matter, as O2’s customer services can be as hard to pin down as Lord Lucan.JD’s number was taken from her when fraudsters, pretending be her, tricked O2 into transferring it to a sim the
  
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• How to get the most out of your Christmas gift vouchers

  06-01-2025 08:00
  
  Whether a physical version, or an e-card, check the T&Cs to make sure you extract maximum value from themThe first thing to do is read the small print (it could be very small if it is squeezed on the back). Continue reading...
  
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• FTSE 100 bosses make more money in 2025 by noon today than average worker in a year

  06-01-2025 07:00
  
  Bosses to hit milestone on third working day of 2025 with median hourly pay of £1,298, says High Pay CentreThe chief executives of FTSE 100 companies will have made more money in 2025 by midday on Monday than their average worker does in a whole year, according to the latest measure of inequality between bosses and their employees.Median pay for FTSE 100 chief executives is £4.22m, 113 times the median full-time worker’s pay of £37,430, according to the High Pay Centre, a
  
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• Give working parents help with childcare and commuting costs, UK thinktank says

  06-01-2025 01:01
  Child poverty plan must address the 70% of families with at least one parent in work, Resolution Foundation saysLabour must offer extra support to working parents, including with childcare and commuting, if it is to fulfil its promise of cutting child poverty, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has argued.The government’s manifesto promised an “ambitious strategy” on child poverty, and ministers have said they will publish a 10-year plan in the spring. Continue reading...
  
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• DWP four PIP rules that could give you £798 a month and not affect your savings

  06-01-2025 01:01 via express.co.uk
  
  The DWP says you do not have to have a physical disability to get payments as you might eligible with mental health issues such as anxiety
  
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