Protect your Pocket

If you run a small business or employ a nanny or carer, you may need to start paying into a pension for them as part of the Government's next phase of auto-enrolment.

Update: 1 June 2015: The Government has today announced that the 30 hours of free childcare for three- and four-year-olds will actually roll out in September 2016 in some pilot areas, ahead of the full expansion in September 2017.

Students heading home from university for the summer could be able to claim a £36 refund for the unused part of their TV licence. They should also diarise to close or switch any energy or broadband accounts.

Now it's been confirmed that the Conservative Party has been voted back into Government after winning more than the 326 seats needed, we explain how its policies affect your pocket.

If you've got a debt management plan with PayPlan and have joined its payment protection scheme, check now whether it's right for you, as letters sent by the firm cast doubts over whether people fully understood what they were buying.

"My other half deals with the finances. I don't know anything about it." I've lost count of the times I've heard this.

The first batch of millions of tax credit renewal packs have been sent out by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), but furious recipients say they're already facing long waits when calling the helpline.