The best insurance a nation can hope for?
'The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or races, but the happiness of the common man' - William Beveridge, 1942
It's a tax that few und...
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Benefit will help fight child poverty
The new child tax credit, payable to nearly six million families from April 2003 and the government's main weapon in its fight to abolish child poverty, received a warm w...
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Laptop was a steal
I bought a laptop using my Egg credit card from a branch of CashXchange in London last October and, once I started using it, became increasingly convinced that something ...
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Byers in new sweetener on rail shares
Taxpayers face an extra £150 million bill on top of the £500m earmarked to buy off Railtrack shareholders.
The revelation will stun MPs already angered by Tra...
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We take out health insurance when travelling, yet freely treat visitors able to pay
When Mrs Thatcher's new policies were introduced I was working in a GP practice in London and saw at first hand the consequent destruction of our health service.
Overnig...
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Dirty talk
Last year, the inland revenue gave me a tax audit. This year, I've just given myself a carbon audit. Neither was much fun, but at least I passed the tax audit with colour...
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$2.9m pension boost for AIB boss
Frank Bramble, chairman of the fraud-hit US arm of Allied Irish Banks, is to have $2.9m paid into his pension pot when he retires in June.
Mr Bramble ran AIB's Allfirst...
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Russian mafia hits the jackpot by winning with bogus credit
Some people do make money from online casinos - fraudsters. Criminals are employing a welter of devices to swindle money out of credit card holders and businesses.
Thes...
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Sorry end of age-old benefits
This is like kicking pension funds with hobnail boots when they are already lying on their backs with their feet up in the air.' That comment, from Simon Martin, head of ...
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Most MPs support compulsory plans
A year to the week after stakeholder pensions were introduced, new research has found that most MPs would like to see payment into pensions made compulsory.
The researc...
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