Good deal for users as cards are shuffled off again?
Abbey National's 500,000 credit cardholders might not be too pleased to discover they have been off- loaded on to a US-based card company which has come under fire for fa...
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Everyone can take the credit
So, you want to buy something on the internet and save a load of cash, but you don't have a credit card? That's
a coincidence, because plenty of e-tailers would be onl...
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Anger over Revenue's debt check
Self employed workers who thought they had cleared their debts to the Inland Revenue with a tax cheque on January 31 may have to think again. They are being targeted by a...
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Housing benefit celebrates its 18th birthday
On what was only its second birthday, in 1984, a leader in the Times dismissed it as "the biggest administrative fiasco in the history of the welfare state". Next month, ...
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Bonuses not as equitable as they seem
At first glance Equitable Life's bonus payment for last year, at 8 per cent for with-profits pensions, seems surprisingly good news for a life office in such dire straits...
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Tax rule may start new brain drain
Next week a band of computer experts will trudge along to the High Court in London to contest a tax rule which they say leaves them paying tax at more than 50p in the ...
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Extra money for recruitment and heads leaves unions dissatisfied
Extra money for teacher recruitment, school repairs and additional funds for headteachers to spend as they see fit were announced by the Chancellor in his Budget speech t...
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Adverts are unacceptable
Two full-page adverts (March 5) asking if I "find it acceptable" - presumably to fraudulently claim unemployment benefit. What I do find unacceptable is asking people to ...
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A well-engineered retirement
Bristol pensioner David Parslow has been investing for income since he retired 12 years ago. A former manager in the aero-engines repair division of Rolls-Royce, he took ...
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Insurer 'starving us out
Investors with Equitable Life received another blow last week, when the insurer announced that it was suspending payment of guaranteed bonuses.
Equitable has given no c...
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