2020

Car and home insurance customers should pay no more when renewing their policy than they would if they were taking out a new one with the same firm, under radical new proposals from the financial regulator.

National Savings & Investments (NS&I) will dramatically cut the interest it pays on many of its savings accounts in November, slashing its top easy-access rate to just 0.01%. And Premium Bond holders will also have a much lower chance of winning a prize from December, with the prize rate to be cut to 1%.

MoneySavingExpert.com is this week rolling out MSE Autoswitch – the first-ever free, full energy auto-compare-and-switch tool. This is the latest development for our free Cheap Energy Club, which already has 4.5 million members.

Loveholidays has followed fellow package travel firm On the Beach in resigning from the trade body ABTA, in a move to avoid paying full refunds to some customers hit by coronavirus cancellations.

Tesco is to give away tons of groceries free of charge via food-sharing app Olio, as part of a new partnership to distribute the supermarket giant's surplus food. You can also find free food and drink from Pret, Costa, local bakeries and many more stores on Olio – here's how to sign up and grab free grub.

Nectar cardholders can now collect points on Argos purchases – both in store and online – for the first time.

More Premium Bond prizes will be paid directly to holders' accounts as NS&I is set to phase out its paper prize cheques by March next year – so make sure it has your details.

Many BT Sport and TV customers are to be hit by price hikes of up to £72/year from November – but if you're affected you can leave penalty-free.

Package holiday giant Tui has promised to pay any outstanding refund requests for holidays cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic by 30 September 2020.

Renters who use CreditLadder to build their credit rating by sending information about their rental payments to credit reference agencies will now need to pay a fee of up to £8/month if they want their payments to be reported to both Experian and Equifax.