Rolls-Royce tackles pensions gap
The aerospace company Rolls-Royce today moved to close its £1.28bn pensions deficit by proposing a £500m payment and closing its final salary scheme to new memb...
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Card users win foreign protection
Consumers received great news this month when the court of appeal ruled unanimously that section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, under which a credit card company is joint...
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Is the full value of a credit card purchase covered?
Q We run a travel firm and we have been trying to clarify what protection is provided to credit card holders under section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974.
I understo...
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Ebay's money transfer arm to launch credit card
PayPal, the money transfer division of the online auction site eBay, is to offer credit cards in Britain. The company which has more than 10 million British payment accou...
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The mum who dared to fight back
Gaylia Ashby has paid thousands of pounds in penalty charges on her credit card and current account after running into financial problems three years ago.
She was made r...
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Pensioners fail to claim benefits
Up to 2 million pensioners are missing out on council tax benefit, which could cut their bill by more than £500 a year, a charity said today.
Age Concern said counc...
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Cheques get the chop at Asda
The death of the cheque came a step closer yesterday, with the announcement that supermarket Asda is to stop accepting them as payment in some of its branches.
The reta...
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At last, holiday insurance that dares to take on the risk of terrorism
A travel insurance product without any of the usual exemptions for terror strikes or pre-existing health conditions has been launched this week to help families of Britis...
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Idealist hippie lawyer can't beat the taxman
For any other lawyer, a jail term would mean financial ruin. For Tony Serra the 10-month sentence he starts this weekend for 20 years of tax evasion will be little more t...
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Rail firm's telesales are not the ticket
I tried to book a train ticket by phone through First Great Western. Neither my credit card nor debit card matched what the telesales operator had on the screen, so she c...
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