Elderly to get cash help to stay at home
Older people are to receive cash payments to fund care in their own homes under a government drive to reduce the numbers of medically fit patients stuck in hospital.
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Regulator forces PwC to reach $5m settlement
Doubts about the integrity of US corporate reporting intensified last night, after Pricewaterhouse Coopers reached a $5m settlement with the US market regulator over a se...
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Treading an average path means extra funds will be kept to a minimum
George Green's school on the Isle of Dogs in east London is a comprehensive school in every sense and proud of it.
Standing cheek by jowl with council flats and Docklan...
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Inheritance tax and your domicile of origin
Q My father died in February and we are now trying to get though probate. He had returned to the UK from Italy, where he was living with my mother and myself, to MOT his ...
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?80m risk to Claims customers
More than 60,000 Claims Direct customers could lose personal injury payments worth up to £80 million as a result of the firm's slide into receivership.
Claims Dire...
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MPs must oppose this bill
Frank Field's housing benefit (withholding of payment) bill, which is due to come before MPs today, would remove benefit from households guilty of anti-social behaviour. ...
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Forking out by degrees
Why can't the government do the obvious and introduce a tax - not only for future but also for current graduates (Students must pay more - MPs, July 9)? Messing about wit...
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Revenue issues deadline warning
Taxpayers were warned this week they face hefty charges by the Inland Revenue if they fail to meet the self-assessment deadline on July 31.
The Association of Chartered ...
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PM rejects alarm at 'two-tier' NHS plan
Tony Blair has rejected a warning from his Cabinet Office strategy unit that plans to give the best hospitals freedom from Whitehall control run the risk of creating a tw...
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Operate before drug wears off
The beleaguered life insurance industry was administered a big, fat dose of sedative yesterday, courtesy of the financial services authority. The so-called stress tests, ...
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