Pay packets are smaller than they were in 2008 in most local authority areas in the UK, according to analysis by the Trades Union Congress,…
View More Real terms average pay lower in most UK local authorities than in 2008, TUC findsTag: Family finances
‘Every penny has a purpose’: the rise of zero-based budgeting
Each month 20,000 people tune in to watch 27-year-old Beth Fuller work out how to spend her salary. For a year and a half she…
View More ‘Every penny has a purpose’: the rise of zero-based budgeting‘A deeply broken system’: is it time England abandoned council tax?
Battersea power station offered no prospect of luxury living when Tony Belton became a local councillor in 1971. The coal-fired behemoth was nearing closure after…
View More ‘A deeply broken system’: is it time England abandoned council tax?Salary sacrifice: how British workers can take home more by getting paid less
No, it’s not a delayed April fool: putting in a request to have your wages cut may actually result in you being better-off at the…
View More Salary sacrifice: how British workers can take home more by getting paid lessRise in UK minimum wage leaves millions short of real living wage
Millions of UK workers will still be left more than £1,000 a year short of a real living wage, despite the biggest cash boost in…
View More Rise in UK minimum wage leaves millions short of real living wage‘It’s all fallen flat’: households earning more than £60,000 on how they are struggling financially
An annual gross income of £74,000 puts Scott, 28, a software engineer from Leicestershire, in the top 10% of earners nationally. But, he says, it…
View More ‘It’s all fallen flat’: households earning more than £60,000 on how they are struggling financially‘We’re hugely worried’: UK private pension rule changes disrupt retirement plans
You’ve been dutifully paying into your company or private pension for years, maybe even decades, but then – perhaps when you’re just about to retire…
View More ‘We’re hugely worried’: UK private pension rule changes disrupt retirement plansUK pay growth slows less than expected as workers bid up wages
Pay growth slowed less than expected in December, prompting predictions the Bank of England could start cutting interest rates later than previously expected. Earnings growth,…
View More UK pay growth slows less than expected as workers bid up wagesRaising UK state pension age to 71 would bring ‘misery’ to millions
Raising the state retirement age to 71 would condemn millions of middle-aged people to misery as they get older, Britain’s biggest independent organisation of older…
View More Raising UK state pension age to 71 would bring ‘misery’ to millionsUK savings and benefits: are you missing out on free cash?
In a cost of living crisis every penny counts, so it’s never been more important to check you are getting everything that is rightfully yours.…
View More UK savings and benefits: are you missing out on free cash?