A major new study has confirmed what many of us already suspected – that our basic financial skills are in tatters. One in three adults in England and Northern Ireland (NI) can’t work out the correct change from a shopping trip and four in 10 are unable to apply a simple discount on products they’d […]
Squint hard and you could almost see them whizzing by – the chances the Chancellor of the Exchequer had this week to set a few things right, to make everyday life simpler, easier, more affordable. Busy comparing himself with a fictional plaything, Mr Hammond didn’t even give them a wistful backwards glance as he instead […]
The march of the brand new car once seemed unstoppable. Cheap finance and personal contract plans (PCPs) fuelled a boom in new cars, accounting for more than 80 per cent of all new car registrations. A fall at the start of 2017 was blamed on a collapse in consumer confidence in diesel vehicles and last […]
In years gone by every Mother’s Day would be heralded not simply by flowers and a lie-in, but a slew of financial companies trying to bag themselves a few column inches by giving them each a monetary value. The marginally more PC among them even occasionally acknowledged the value of a “parent” instead. The last […]
Citizens Advice has called on the Government to strengthen the complaints process for consumers after finding that poor services and faulty goods affected the lives of millions in the last year. Some 14 million people suffered the knock-on effects of consumer problems in 2017 alone that affected their lives, finances or health, a survey of […]
