Claimants waited five months for benefits, report finds
Leicester council's tax and housing benefit claimants were left in limbo after waiting an average of five months to have their claims processed, a report has revealed.
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Row erupts over tax on marathon
The Treasury became embroiled yesterday in a row with a number of charities putting forward runners in Sunday's London marathon after it was accused of "creaming off" ...
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HSBC launches Islamic pension fund
A pension fund designed to meet the requirements of Islamic law, or Shariah, was launched yesterday by HSBC.
Islamic law restricts the payment and receipt of interest, ...
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Plastic debt repayment improves
British consumers are paying off their credit card debt at a faster rate than they are spending on their plastic, according to figures yesterday from the payment clearing...
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Post Office relents - after seven appeals
I bought Aon travel insurance from the Post Office for a trip to Turkey. Five days before the holiday, my father suffered a stroke and died. I intended cancelling the hol...
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Job shuffle rumours at Standard Life
Standard Life is said to be hunting for a new finance director before it demutualises and floats on the stock market.
The company's finance director, John Hylands, has ...
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Legal aid for barristers
· As of last week, barristers in criminal trials are being granted legal aid under a new payment scheme which has so angered them that a very unlawyerlike boycott ha...
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Trust Nye
I disagree with John Carvel's belief that Nye Bevan would have disapproved of NHS foundation trusts (Patients as guests, payment by results - it's the new NHS, April 1). ...
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Letters to the editor
PFI is working
Nick Cohen is right when he says PFI is complicated (Comment, last week). One reason for choosing this method of public finance is that the risk of overrun...
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Don't take an interest in the details
Clever Halifax! 'Launching the UK's Biggest Regular Savings Rate - 6.05 per cent AER'. What a wheeze! The best introductory gimmick yet! Mmm...
OK, here's how Halifax p...
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