The Government has launched what it's describing as a "revolutionary" Work Programme today, to help around two and a half million people back to work in the next five years.
Lenders have slashed interest on fixed rate mortgages, while the number of mortgages available to those with small deposits has also risen, new figures show.
Scottish Power has announced it will hike electricity prices by 10% and gas prices by a whopping 19% from 1 August, in a bitter blow to 2.4 million households.
Hundreds of thousands of households could pay more for their water under Government-backed plans to install meters in areas where water shortages exist.