Three months on the phone and still in the dark
Helene Hibbert has spent the past three months calling Inland Revenue helplines to find out how much she can expect to receive from the working tax credit and children's ...
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Refugees to get ?3,000 to go home
Tens of thousands of Iraqi asylum seekers in Britain are to be offered voluntary repatriation packages including a payment of up to £3,000 per family if they return ...
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Card fraud reaches record high
Card fraud in the UK continued to climb in 2002, with a record of just under ?425m of fraudulent transactions made compared with ?411.5m the year before.
Figures release...
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Brown set for male tax revolt
The Treasury is braced for a 'male backlash' against the Budget over changes which will transfer tax credit money from husbands to their wives.
Sources close to Downing...
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US can't pay for war and cut tax
New York Times
Editorial, March 26
"It surely is no coincidence that George Bush's opening $75bn price tag on the Iraq invasion arrived on Capitol Hill yesterday jus...
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Can you be ?200 warmer?
Thousands of elderly householders are missing out on millions of pounds in winter fuel payments because they have not claimed them. Many could lose their right to claim i...
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Born too late... or how bureaucrats are making a fuel of me
As someone over 60, I was looking forward to receiving my £200 winter fuel payment for the first time this winter - but I discovered that I was ineligible because my...
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Meridien rescue mission
Bankers to the troubled Le Meridien hotel chain were last night trying desperately to keep prestigious hotels such as the Waldorf and Grosvenor out of the hands of the ad...
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That won't do nicely
After many delays, the public trial of chip and Pin-enabled credit and debit cards in retail outlets finally got underway in Northampton on May 19, and few disasters or s...
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New action plan fights fine dodgers
Defendants fined by magistrates courts may be forced to do unpaid community work if they fail to pay up under a seven-point action plan to tackle fine defaulting unveiled...
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