2020

The first-ever curriculum mapped financial education textbook to hit schools in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – funded jointly by MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis and the Money & Pensions Service – has been announced today, following the successful roll-out of the original version in England.

The financial regulator has announced it will ban commission models that give car finance dealers an incentive to raise customers' costs from next year.

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has launched a consultation designed to better protect consumers when a business they've bought from goes bust.

Hundreds of thousands of Plusnet broadband and phone line rental customers who are out of contract will see an inflation-linked price rise in October – though if you're affected, you can leave penalty-free.

The Government is set to make it legal to witness wills virtually in England and Wales for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.

Insurance customers struggling financially due to the pandemic will have until the end of October to ask for help such as a payment holiday or review of their premium under new proposals from the regulator. But it's NOT proposing that those already on a payment holiday should be able to extend it beyond three months.

UK holidaymakers who are due to travel within the next fortnight and who have outstanding passport applications will be able to get their new passport fast-tracked to them within five working days if they've been hit by coronavirus delays, the Passport Office has announced today.

Phone, broadband and pay-TV firms must give extra support to vulnerable customers – which could include payment holidays and tariff advice – under new guidance from communications watchdog Ofcom.

All of the remaining 92 games in the English Premier League will be broadcast live on Sky Sports, BT Sport, BBC Sport or Amazon Prime – and over a third of them will be available to watch for free. Plus the remaining seven FA Cup games will also be screened on TV, with four including the final shown 'free' on the BBC.

There is currently a backlog of 410,000 UK passport applications due to coronavirus-related delays, according to new Government figures.