October 2014

Disability and carers benefits are likely to rise by just 1.2% next April after it was revealed yesterday that inflation had fallen to its lowest level for five years.

People aged over 55 will be able to dip into their pension pot like a bank account as part of the Government's drive to give people greater freedom over retirement savings.

A savvy couple avoided losing more than £23,000 of their retirement savings after following MSE’s tips and paying for the first £200 of their new kitchen with the husband’s credit card.

Shoppers will earn just half as many points for spending the same amount of cash at Sainsbury's from April next year, it was announced today.

Anyone who still has (N)ISA savings with Intelligent Finance should consider moving their cash elsewhere as its interest rates have today fallen to paltry levels.

If you normally fill up your car at Asda, Sainsbury's or Tesco, hold off until tomorrow if possible as the supermarkets plan to cut petrol prices by up to 2p/litre.

MoneySavingExpert.com today urges City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, to allow victims of the wide-scale CPP mis-selling scandal who've yet to claim their cash to do so, after the redress door was slammed shut in August. 

Anyone thinking of getting TSB's current account should do it this weekend if they want to max the amount of interest they can earn by opening four accounts, as this feature will be axed for new customers from Monday.

Scotland is to scrap the abolute or 'slab structured' stamp duty system that exists in the rest of the UK in favour of a proportional system where tax is paid only on the portion of the purchase price that goes over each threshold, rather than the entire amount.

Payday lenders will have to provide details of their loans to comparison websites in order to operate, under new proposals set out by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today.