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Directors of companies that plague consumers with nuisance calls will be slapped with fines of up to £500,000 from spring 2017 after the introduction of tough new rules.

The rising cost of clothing, hotel stays and petrol has fuelled the highest rate of UK inflation in almost two years – but there remain ways you can cut your costs.

One million couples have successfully claimed the Government's marriage tax allowance, but another 3.2 million eligible couples have so far failed to lodge a claim that could net them £100s, MoneySavingExpert.com can reveal.

Tax credit claimants who say their benefits were wrongly stopped by HM Revenue & Customs contractor Concentrix will tell their stories to MPs at a parliamentary evidence session tomorrow (Thursday 13 October).

If your entire tax credit claim was wrongly stopped by the contractor Concentrix you'll receive a lump sum repayment, HM Revenue & Customs said today – but if only part of your claim was removed or reduced, you'll have to wait to get the money back in instalments.

Cases of financial fraud have increased by more than 50% year-on-year with more than one million incidents reported in the first half of 2016, latest figures from Financial Fraud Action (FFA) have shown.

Students at several major UK universities have been targeted by 'phishing' emails which claim to offer them a Government bursary - and some have lost £100s as a result. As students get ready for the new academic year, here's what to watch out for.

Around 2,000 appeals against tax credit cuts will be examined by tax officials in the wake of HM Revenue & Customs' decision to axe a controversial contractor hired to cut fraud, it emerged today.

A controversial contractor hired by HM Revenue & Customs to cut tax credit fraud won't have its contract extended beyond May 2017 after massive criticism of its performance and claims hundreds have had their tax credits wrongly stopped.