Family & Health

Carers will get stronger rights to seek financial and practical help to relieve the burden of looking after loved ones as part of reforms to be set out in the Queen's Speech tomorrow, it has been reported.

Universal credit, a new benefit which replaces jobseeker's allowance, income support and other tax credits, will be launched today in four areas of north-west England.

The Government has announced plans to make it easier for people to consolidate pensions when they switch jobs.

The Government is bringing forward plans to introduce a flat-rate state pension by a year.

More than two million working families could receive support for childcare costs under a new scheme announced by the Government today, but will you be better or worse off? MoneySavingExpert.com analyses what it means.

Nearly a million gym members will have improved rights to cancel their contracts, after three major firms were forcefully persuaded to clean up their act by the regulator.

More than half of people believe being taught money education in school would have improved their financial knowledge as adults, Nationwide says.

Bills for long-term public and private care in old age are to be capped at £75,000 in England, in a £1 billion move to be funded by dragging more people into the inheritance tax net.