Tens of thousands of workers up and down the country will have received April’s pay a couple of weeks ago and many will have seen that pay reduce from what they are used to. Many employers will have taken advantage of the government’s Job Retention Scheme to help them to continue to pay their staff, and this could have the…
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It’s good to talk goes the old adage and it’s certainly true as far as money is concerned. We’re very tight-lipped about the way we talk to our friends and family about our money. We tend not to talk about how much we earn, or how much we’ve borrowed to buy the house we live in, and we certainly don’t…
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I have to confess to a degree of unease with the way the banks are behaving at the moment. I received an email from one of our major banks the other day to tell me that they were reducing the rate of interest they paid on their instant saver account from 0.35% to 0.01%. Their other accounts, and their range…
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Millions of us are facing financial issues that we thought impossible just a couple of weeks ago. Jobs have been lost, work has disappeared, but the bills still need to be paid. At times like this it’s more important than ever that we keep a handle on the way we’re spending our money. Here are ten top tips to help…
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