I have been inundated with pension questions since the new rules came in a couple of months ago. And please keep them coming. If you have any pension-related question that you want to ask then please drop me a line at info@moneysucks.net. The changes are complicated and are not quite as clear as was initially suggested so no question is…
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Interesting points on a recent Facebook post about whether we should call an end to the ‘compensation culture’ that has grown up around the various ‘misselling’ scandals. Omar Mohammed makes the point that many people will have benefited from PPI polices that they claimed on and that many others may have knowingly bought these policies but still be ‘chancing it’…
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RBS Fraud Prevention Department called me recently to check some transactions on my credit card. We went through the most recent purchases and I told them they had missed one out – for a hotel I had stayed in the previous night. “Oh, that one didn’t go through, it was referred.” I don’t think so, I replied, as far as…
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The Chancellor’s Emergency Budget last week contained an unusually high number or personal finance issues, but two in particular stood out for me, and we’ll concentrate on the first of them here, as well as mopping up some of the smaller changes. I’ll come back to the changes to dividend payments next time. The first was the news that we…
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