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<div class="date">30 May 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/4000-english-households-lose-homes-week-research-suggests/">4,000 English households could lose their homes each week, research suggests</a></div>More than 4,000 English households are currently at risk of eviction or home repossession each and every week as housing costs continue to rise and the number of affordable homes keeps on dwindling, recent research by the housing charity <a href="http://england.shelter.org.uk/">Shelter</a> suggests.
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<div class="date">29 Apr 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/hunger-levels-high-enough-declare-national-crisis/">Are hunger levels high enough to declare a national crisis?</a></div>Hunger in Britain is now a “public health emergency” and the government’s welfare cuts and austerity are adding to the growing problem, leading experts have stated in a recent letter.
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<div class="date">24 Apr 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/inflation-recedes-lowest-level-since-2009/">Inflation recedes to lowest level since 2009</a></div>The consumer price index fell once again in March, reaching 1.6 percent and marking the lowest inflation rate since October 2009, recently released figures from the ONS reveal.
March’s figures mark the third month in a row that the consumer price index, or CPI, tracked below the 2 percent target established by the Bank of England.
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<div class="date">22 Apr 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/embattled-lender-wonga-payday-loan-ad-banned/">Embattled lender, Wonga, has payday loan ad banned</a></div>A television advertisement from embattled payday lender Wonga has been branded as “misleading” and banned by the UK’s advertising watchdog.
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<div class="date">14 Apr 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="http://www.answerbag.co.uk/news/fca-set-launch-inquiry-zombie-funds%e2%80%8f">FCA set to launch inquiry into 'zombie funds'</a></div>The FCA recently confirmed it will launch an investigation into ‘zombie funds’ as part of a general inquiry taking place this summer into the potential mistreatment of long-term financial customers. The announcement came only one week after Chancellor George Osborne declared pension savers would now be able to do as they like with their money f...<div class="more"><a href="../news/fca-set-launch-inquiry-zombie-funds_e2_80_8f/">Read more</a></div></li><li class="post">
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<div class="date">10 Apr 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/construction-sector-experiencing-best-growth-since-2007/">Construction sector experiencing best growth since 2007</a></div>A surge in new home construction during the first quarter of the year has resulted in a construction growth rate not seen since 2007, a new construction sector survey reveals.
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<div class="date">7 Apr 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/new-regulatory-framework-may-lead-many-payday-lenders-exiting-market/">New regulatory framework may lead to many payday lenders exiting the market</a></div>Half of the UK’s payday lenders may choose to lock up shoppe rather than go along with tougher restrictions imposed by the industry’s new regulatory watchdog, the <a href="http://www.cfa-uk.co.uk/">Consumer Finance Association</a> recently revealed.
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<div class="date">20 Mar 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/help-buy-scheme-threatened-rising-house-prices/">Help to Buy scheme threatened by rising house prices</a></div>House prices surged in February, reaching their highest annual growth rate in over six years, a new report from Halifax reveals. Experts agree the Help to Buy Scheme is largely behind the recent price hike, and it may be threatened as a result.
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<div class="date">17 Mar 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/fca-set-ban-add-insurance-point-sale/">FCA set to ban add-on insurance at point of sale</a></div>Shoppers throughout the UK will no longer be forced to uncheck a box in order to opt-out of add-on insurance as the FCA has deemed it a poor value for consumers, costing them £200 million a year.
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<div class="date">5 Mar 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/mortgage-approvals-six-year-high/">Mortgage approvals at six-year high</a></div>New Mortgage loan approvals for UK home buyers have hit a six-year high, the latest figures from the Bank of England reveal.
According to the Bank of England, there were 76,947 new mortgage approvals in January, suggesting home sales will keep growing in the coming months as home prices throughout London and much of the UK continue to ascend.
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<div class="date">20 Feb 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/female-unemployment-record-highs/">Female unemployment at record highs</a></div>Britons across the isle are being forced into part-time employment in record numbers as the availability of full-time jobs is scarce at best. Meanwhile, the number of unemployed women throughout the UK has risen to a 25-year high, the latest official statistics reveal.
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<div class="date">17 Jan 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/businesses-experiencing-growth-available-capital/">Businesses experiencing growth in available capital</a></div>A “significant” flood of new loans during the fourth quarter of 2018 shows that bank lending to UK businesses is on the rise, the Bank of England recently announced.
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<div class="date">15 Jan 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/new-benefits-scheme-face-delays/">New benefits scheme to face further delays</a></div>The government’s battered flagship benefits scheme designed to shake up the current benefits system is facing yet another crisis and facing a fresh set of problems as leaked documents suggest a rift has developed between two vital departments at the center of the scheme.
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<div class="date">13 Jan 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/pension-industry-outraged-latest-government-proposals/">Pension industry outraged over latest government proposals</a></div>The pension industry has erupted in outrage amid recent government proposals aimed at allowing retired workers stuck in low-paying pensions to switch providers, claiming the elderly could be worse off.
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<div class="date">23 Dec 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/customer-helpline-rates-cut-2014/">Customer helpline rates to be cut in 2018</a></div>Customers who receive faulty goods will no longer need to pay high charges to call and file complaints, the government recently announced.
To the delight of customers across the UK, Ofcom has announced that the charges involved with calling businesses will become much clearer as major changes to phone charges will be introduced.
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<div class="date">20 Dec 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/housing-prices-poised-continue-ascent/">Housing prices poised to continue their ascent</a></div>Home prices across the UK could rise by eight per cent or more next year unless a flood of new properties is unleashed onto the market, states Rightmove, a leading property website.
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<div class="date">19 Dec 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/cost-providing-state-pensions-increase-four-fold/">Cost of providing state pensions could increase four-fold</a></div>As indicated by the chancellor’s grim Autumn Statement, official figures reveal that the cost of providing the UK’s aging population with state pensions will increase four-fold during the next 50 years if mandatory age increases for qualifying citizens are not brought forward.
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<div class="date">6 Dec 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/legal-cap-cost-payday-loans-announced/">Legal cap on the cost of payday loans announced</a></div>A new law will cap payday loan costs, the Government recently announced.
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<div class="date">5 Dec 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/bank-england-poised-take-action-stem-housing-price-bubble/">Bank of England poised to take action to stem housing price bubble</a></div>In a recent surprise announcement that the Funding for Lending Scheme will no longer be applied to mortgage lending, the Bank of England demonstrated it is ready to take action to curb an impending UK housing bubble.
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<div class="date">5 Dec 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/new-figures-reveal-startling-wage-cuts/">New figures reveal startling wage cuts</a></div>Wage earners across Britain have taken a pay cut to the tune of £5,000, new government figures reveal, suggesting ministers will have a difficult time getting voters in their corner prior to the 2017 general election.
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<div class="date">29 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/volume-mortgages-approaches-2008-levels/">Volume of mortgages approaches 2008 levels</a></div>Mortgage lending reached a five-year high of £17.6bn in October, up 37 per cent from the £12.9bn lent during the same month one year earlier, new statistics show.
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<div class="date">22 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/major-survey-seeks-understand-gender-pay-gap/">Major survey seeks to understand gender pay gap</a></div>A group of UK business leaders has announced it is conducting an online survey and asking 100,000 women to provide insight into their work experiences in an effort to unravel the gender pay gap that exists between men and women in their 30s and beyond.
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<div class="date">19 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/new-government-proposal-seeks-reduce-unsolicited-ppi-calls/">New government proposal seeks to reduce unsolicited PPI calls</a></div>A new government proposal is taking aim at claims firms by levying large fines to firms that unabashedly make unsolicited texts and phone calls to the UK’s general public in attempts to find new customers.
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<div class="date">15 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/interest-rates-rise-soon-2015-think-tank-suggests/">Interest rates could rise as soon as 2017, think tank suggests</a></div>The Bank of England may raise interest rates as early as the second quarter of 2017, says the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, an economic think tank.
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<div class="date">14 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/english-councils-appear-poised-increase-taxes/">English councils appear poised to increase taxes</a></div>In spite of taking the government cash incentive to freeze taxes, nearly a third of English councils are planning to raise the council tax next year, a recent survey suggests.
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<div class="date">13 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/pensioners-risk-energy-prices-skyrocket/">Pensioners at risk as energy prices skyrocket</a></div>Soaring energy prices have resulted in 5.1 million UK homes being faced with fuel poverty, Consumer Focus and the Hills Review estimate.
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<div class="date">12 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/payday-loan-adverts-targeting-children/">Are payday loan adverts targeting children?</a></div>Payday loan companies are “grooming” children to become the next generation of borrowers, and they should be banned from advertising on children’s TV programmes and channels, one of the UK’s leading financial advice experts stated.
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<div class="date">11 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/report-finds-uk-property-taxes-highest-developed-world/">Report finds UK property taxes highest in developed world</a></div>British homeowners pay the highest property taxes in the developed world, resulting in more than twice the average amount of property taxes charged by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development’s 34 richest countries, according to a recently released think tank report.
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<div class="date">8 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/prices-ivas-surge-borrowers-continue-struggle-debt/">Prices of IVAs surge as borrowers continue to struggle with debt</a></div>IVAs jumped 10 percent in the third quarter, reaching their highest levels since 2010. As IVAs continue to rise, experts warn of mounting personal debt.
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<div class="date">7 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/government-considers-cap-pension-scheme-charges/">Government considers cap on pension scheme charges</a></div>Fees charged by UK pension providers may be capped at one percent or lower, new government proposals suggest.
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<div class="date">6 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/personal-insolvencies-rise/">Personal insolvencies are on the rise</a></div>Business liquidations may be on the decline, but personal insolvencies are on the rise, reveals the latest official figures.
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<div class="date">5 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/regional-gaps-house-repossessions-widening/">Regional gaps in house repossessions are widening</a></div>The ongoing divide between housing repossessions in the northern and southern areas of the UK is wider now than in any other time during the last six years, with 33 percent more homes being repossessed in the northern UK than in the south, according to recent research released by e.surv chartered surveyors.
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<div class="date">4 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/accidental-landlords-coming-fire-lenders/">'Accidental' landlords coming under fire by lenders</a></div>A Liverpool lettings firm recently revealed a noticeable increase in the number of Liverpool homeowners letting out their homes because they are unable to sell; a common trend occurring across the UK today, despite suffering from an increased lender crackdown.
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<div class="date">1 Nov 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/government-taking-aim-compensation-culture/">Government taking aim at the ‘compensation culture’</a></div>The government has announced a package of measures designed to lower motoring costs, including the high cost of insurance premiums.
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<div class="date">30 Oct 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/women-poised-face-record-pension-shortfall/">Women are poised to face a record pension shortfall</a></div>The increased cost of caring for elderly parents and raising children means a record number of women are not saving enough for retirement, a new report claims.
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<div class="date">29 Oct 2018</div><div class="title title-big"><a href="../news/growing-consumer-confidence-spurring-greater-borrowing/">Growing consumer confidence spurring greater borrowing</a></div>The figures are in, and according to the British Banker’s Association, unsecured credit borrowing by households increased by £76 million in August, marking the first increase since 2009.
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