March 2017

Plans to raise national insurance rates payable by the self-employed have been unexpectedly scrapped by Chancellor Philip Hammond, less than a week after being announced in the Spring Budget.

Savers have until 11.59pm tonight (Wednesday 15 March) to bag one of Atom Bank's market-leading accounts before the app-only bank cuts the rate on all four of its fixed saver offerings, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal.

A fresh attempt to stop the Government retrospectively raising student loan repayments has ended in defeat, after an amendment to new legislation was narrowly voted down in the House of Lords last night.

Millions of SSE customers on its standard tariff will see their energy bills jump from 28 April – the firm's hiking electricity prices by 14.9% and keeping gas prices steady, meaning those on a dual fuel tariff face an average 6.9% rise.

A security glitch at the cashback website Topcashback has caused hundreds of users to be 'partially' logged in to someone else's account over the past month, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal – with usernames, shopping history via the website, earnings and some email addresses viewable.

Atom Bank says savers who applied for its 2% one-year fixed account before last night's deadline won't miss out on the market-leading rate, after high customer demand caused the bank's app to crash.

Savers with one of Virgin Money's 'E-Saver' accounts may have been paid the wrong amount of interest for the past two years, the bank has admitted – but it's now giving all those affected a £20 lump sum to rectify the error.

Many of the UK's four million households which prepay for their energy will see prices drop on 1 April when a new price cap comes into force, but savings will vary hugely and at least 200,000 customers will see an increase, new figures obtained by MoneySavingExpert.com reveal.

Cigarette smokers will pay more under a new tax system to come into effect in a couple of months, the Chancellor announced in today's Budget.