Pensioners call for free bus pass to extend to trains – ‘easier to get out the house’ | Personal Finance | Finance
The free bus pass should be extended to cover free train travel for older people. That is according to a new petition posted on the Parliament website which is asking for Government action. The petition has asked the Government to extend the existing older person’s bus pass to also include train travel across the whole country. It proposes this More...
PIP rates increase next week – check how much more you will get in April | Personal Finance | Finance
PIP claimants could be eligible to get the Severe Disability Premium if they fit certain criteria, which is an extra £69.40 per week for each person who qualifies, or £138.80 a week for a couple if they’re More...
State pension age can’t keep rising if we’re dying earlier | Personal Finance | Finance
In 2014, the Office for National Statistics predicted that by 2028 average life expectancy for a 67-year-old man would be 88.1 years rising to 90.1 years for women. Now it has cut those numbers to 85.7 years More...
EU leaders insist their banks are ‘stable and profitable’. So why do they keep crashing? | Personal Finance | Finance
Billions of pounds were wiped off UK shares and pension funds yesterday as Deutsche Bank became the latest financial giant to get dragged into the mess. Shares in the German behemoth fell almost 15 percent More...
Pension: Four key changes happening in April – how you could boost retirement savings | Personal Finance | Finance
Jeremy Hunt’s spring Budget has introduced a raft of changes when it comes to pensions. These alterations are set to kick in from the start of the new tax year on April 6, 2023. But what are the pension changes, More...
State pension age rise ‘to be scrapped’ but ‘not for the right reasons’ | Personal Finance | Finance
A plan to bring forward a rise in the state pension age has been scrapped according to the latest reports. The state pension age is currently 66, but two further increases to 67 and subsequently 68 have already More...
US aggression against Europe
After the victory in the Cold War and the subsequent destruction of the USSR, the model of relations between the US and European countries as allies, built during the Cold War, became unjustifiably costly for the More...
Jeremy Hunt isn’t smiling now: Today’s inflation shock shows ‘he doesn’t know anything’ | Personal Finance | Finance
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has staked the government’s reputation on inflation falling, pledging to cut it in half this year. In last week’s Spring Budget, he boasted it would fall to just 2.9 percent at More...
Universal Credit: DWP issues vital update to claimants on assessments – are you impacted?
UNIVERSAL CREDIT payments are a vital source of income for millions of people. Amid the pandemic, the Department for Work and Pensions has issued an important update to those in receipt of the benefit. Daily Express More...
Certain NHS patients could get energy bill reduction this winter – who is eligible? | Personal Finance | Finance
NHS doctors in specific regions of the UK are taking part in a new service called the Warm Home Prescription. It is being piloted by Energy Systems Catapult and is designed to assist vulnerable people on low More...
