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• UK households given £100 cost of living supermarket vouchers in December

  02-12-2025 17:56 via express.co.uk
  UK households can get £100 in supermarket vouchers to spend this December.
  
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• HMRC to pay Brits £1000s for snitching on friends and neighbours

  04-12-2025 15:45 via express.co.uk
  HMRC hopes it will encourage more members of the public to come forward.
  
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• Top 6 credit cards to spread the cost of Christmas with 0% interest

  04-12-2025 15:06 via express.co.uk
  A typical credit card charging 24.9% annual percentage rate can see debts mount quickly during the festive period.
  
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• Martin Lewis issues 'very worried' plea to Rachel Reeves

  04-12-2025 14:42 via express.co.uk
  The money-saving expert discussed financial issues with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
  
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• WASPI update as taxpayers hit with £180k legal bill

  04-12-2025 14:36 via express.co.uk
  WASPI campaign represents an estimated 3.6 million women affected by changes that raised their retirement age to 66.
  
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• Hollowness of Rachel Reeves's big promise to energy consumers exposed

  04-12-2025 13:55 via express.co.uk
  It's no wonder Brits are scratching their heads at those who govern.
  
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• DWP sending Christmas payments to UK households before Monday

  04-12-2025 13:02 via express.co.uk
  Eligible households are advised to look for a five letter code on their bank statement.
  
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• RAC warning as drivers face 'costly' extra charge this month

  04-12-2025 12:52 via express.co.uk
  The RAC has predicted disappointing news for drivers
  
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• Brits to get free electricity on Christmas Day 'regardless of supplier' - on 1 condition

  04-12-2025 12:39 via express.co.uk
  The offer is open to anyone regardless of their energy supplier, but there is one condition.
  
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• State pensioners handed £100 cost of living payments in December

  04-12-2025 12:35 via express.co.uk
  Payments will be issued to some eligible households automatically.
  
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• New pensions '£1,000 rule' set to be introduced for savers by government

  04-12-2025 12:14 via express.co.uk
  Legislation to change how pensions are administered took a step forward as one ex-minister blasted 'very shabbily' treatment by companies
  
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• Rachel Reeves slammed as extra benefits dished out to second wives in polygamous marriages

  02-12-2025 20:00 via express.co.uk
  EXCLUSIVE: The TaxPayers' Alliance says it is 'astounding' that the money is handed out to additional spouses.
  
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• DWP confirms new weekly payment rates for people on State Pension

  02-12-2025 18:54 via express.co.uk
  There's going to be more money for pensioners and Universal Credit claimants.
  
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• Universal Credit households can get £1,200 bonus from HMRC

  02-12-2025 16:59 via express.co.uk
  HMRC provides a bonus payment to eligible households.
  
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• Single households over 25 to get £297 extra per year from DWP

  02-12-2025 15:40 via express.co.uk
  An uprating will give eligible households an extra boost of cash.
  
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• The Crusader: Couple back in credit after troubles transferring Isas

  02-12-2025 15:11 via express.co.uk
  A couple's anxiety levels soared as they tried to track down their savings worth £42,000.
  
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• Chaos as grieving families left waiting A YEAR for inherited pensions - ‘nightmare’

  02-12-2025 13:28 via express.co.uk
  Experts warn this could create a nightmare situation for families at the most difficult time.
  
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• Major bank launches new ‘double payday’ initiative - winners see salary doubled

  02-12-2025 12:47 via express.co.uk
  The initiative will see 10 lucky customers have their salary doubled every month.
  
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• Households handed £300 off energy bills before April

  02-12-2025 12:26 via express.co.uk
  Eligible households will receive the money as credit on their energy bill.
  
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• Zipcar, world’s biggest car-sharing company, to close UK operation

  01-12-2025 23:13 via theguardian.com
  Move by firm, owned by US group Avis Budget, will remove access to shared fleet across London at end of yearThe world’s biggest car-sharing company, Zipcar, has said it will close its UK operation, removing access to its shared fleet across London at the end of this year.The company, owned by the US car rental group Avis Budget, said it would suspend new bookings through its app after 31 December, pending the outcome of a consultation on possible redundancies. The UK operating company had
  
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• OBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of budget document

  01-12-2025 20:48 via theguardian.com
  Richard Hughes takes ‘full responsibility’ for watchdog error as Starmer attempts to secure chancellor’s positionThe chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility has resigned after a damning internal inquiry into the leak that threw Rachel Reeves’s budget into chaos described it as the “worst failure” in the institution’s history.The departure of Richard Hughes, who said he took “full responsibility” for the watchdog’s failure to handl
  
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• Resident doctors in England to go on strike in run-up to Christmas

  01-12-2025 20:07 via theguardian.com
  Five days of strike action over jobs and pay to take place from 17 to 22 December Thousands of doctors in England are to go on strike again this month, in a dispute over pay and job security.The British Medical Association has announced that resident doctors – formerly known as junior doctors – will begin a five-day strike action that will run from 7am on 17 December until 7am on 22 December. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on OBR v the Treasury: ministers have embraced the theatre of errors | Editorial

  01-12-2025 19:56 via theguardian.com
  The government is trapped between Labour’s instincts and bond traders’ demands. Sensible fixes exist, but require imagination ministers have yet shownThe confected frenzy splashed across the morning front pages from the Telegraph to the Mail is remarkable mostly for its absurdity. An outrage machine has decided that a forecast of a few billion pounds in a model that makes projections about trillions of pounds of taxes and spending is the lie of the century. We can’t predict the
  
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• India orders phone makers to preload devices with state-owned cyber safety app

  01-12-2025 19:41 via theguardian.com
  Critics voice concern as government says its Sanchar Saathi app combats cybersecurity threats for 1.2bn telecom usersIndia’s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cybersecurity app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonise Apple and privacy advocates.In tackling a recent surge of cybercrime and hacking, India is joining authorities worldwide, most recently in Russia, to frame rules blocking
  
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• Starmer has little choice but to bind himself closer to his chancellor

  01-12-2025 19:35 via theguardian.com
  Ditching Rachel Reeves would put spotlight back on real context for decision to drop idea of breaching manifestoWhen Keir Starmer was mounting the case for the prosecution against Boris Johnson for his Partygate antics, it took almost two months and a police investigation for him to formally call for the prime minister to resign. He was of the view there was no point calling for things until they were likely to happen.This is not the philosophy of the current leader of the opposition. Since Octo
  
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• NHS to pay 25% more for innovative drugs after UK–US zero-tariff deal

  01-12-2025 19:26 via theguardian.com
  Agreement could cost NHS an extra £3bn a year, industry sources estimateThe UK has agreed to pay 25% more for new medicines by 2035 as part of a US-UK drug pricing deal that will cost an estimated additional £3bn a year.The transatlantic agreement will also see the health service in England, which currently spends £14.4bn a year on innovative therapies, double the percentage of GDP it allocates to buying such products, from 0.3% to 0.6% over the next decade. Continue reading...
  
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• Starmer defends Reeves: has she been economical with the truth? | The Latest

  01-12-2025 19:21 via theguardian.com
  The prime minister has been pushed to defend his chancellor after she was accused of lying in the run-up to the autumn budget. Rachel Reeves is alleged to have misled the public by citing bleak economic forecasts from the OBR to justify tax rises, even though the figures were more positive than she suggested. Lucy Hough is joined by Archie Bland, the head of national news Continue reading...
  
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• How the standoff between Rachel Reeves and the OBR unfolded

  01-12-2025 19:04 via theguardian.com
  Treasury’s independent economic forecaster says outlook for economy rosier than chancellor led everyone to believeOBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of Reeves’s budgetRachel Reeves has been accused of overstating the damage to the UK’s public finances from a downgrade of economic growth by the Treasury’s independent economic forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility.In the aftermath of last week’s budget, the focus has turned to who knew what an
  
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• Jorja Smith’s label requests share of royalties from ‘AI-cloned’ TikTok viral song

  01-12-2025 18:29 via theguardian.com
  Uncredited vocals on song I Run by British dance act Haven alleged to infringe copyright as impersonation of SmithJorja Smith’s record label has called for a share of the royalties from a TikTok-viral song that it claims used an AI-cloned version of the British singer’s voice.The song I Run, by British dance act Haven, went viral in October and was due to chart in the UK and the US after reaching No 11 on the US Spotify chart and No 25 on the platform’s global chart. Continue r
  
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• Does Labour have a death wish or does it secretly enjoy the agony of self-sabotage?

  01-12-2025 17:36 via theguardian.com
  Keir Starmer may be keen to move on from the budget megashambles, but chaos is hardwired into his partyFreud has a word for it. Thanatos. Up till now it’s been tempting to give Labour the benefit of the doubt. That being in opposition for 14 years has made them ring-rusty. That they’ve forgotten how this government thingy works. Hadn’t quite realised they were supposed to be in charge.But now it’s beginning to look like Labour has a death wish. Not that it doesn’t q
  
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