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Hundreds of thousands more retirees, mainly women, have been found to have been underpaid their state pension, with the collective shortfall running to £1.5 billion, according to new Government figures. Here's how to check if you've been affected.

Time is running out to check down the back of your sofa for any soon-to-be-discontinued paper £20 and £50 notes. There are only 100 days left before they become invalid but the latest figures from the Bank of England show there are almost £15 billion-worth of notes still around. 

NS&I will increase its Premium Bond prize-fund rate from 1% to 1.4% from Wednesday 1 June, increasing the odds of a win from 34,500-to-one to 24,500-to-one, and adding more than one million prizes to the June draw. 

Two MoneySavingExpert.com users have secured refunds and compensation worth thousands – and reduced their wastewater bills – after arguing their past payments should have been lower as their homes aren't connected to public sewers. Here's how others in England and Wales can maybe do the same.

A quarter of people have stopped paying into long-term investments, such as stocks and shares ISAs or pensions, as a result of the recent spike in the cost of living, a poll has found. Here are all the details.

Over 1.2 million subscription payments have been cancelled since the summer of last year as people feel the squeeze of the cost of living crisis, research from Lloyds Bank shows.

Passengers could cut their flight costs by 9% if they chose to travel on a Friday, research conducted by Skyscanner suggests. The travel company also found that Milan is best value destination to fly to this year, with flight costs now more than 60% lower than before the pandemic.

App-only bank Chase has launched a new easy-access savings account that pays a market-leading rate of 1.5% – the highest we've seen in over two and a half years. On top of that, customers can deposit a huge £250,000. Here are all the details.

Certain Post Office savings accounts will no longer accept payments into them from 1 March 2022 unless they're from a linked current account (or if they're via cheque or cash). MoneySavingExpert.com has learnt that 150,000 Post Office savers still need to set-up a linked account before the deadline. 

Martin: "Happy new year to you all. I hope it'll be better than the last health-wise, as sadly wealth-wise it doesn't look good. The cost of living crisis will run through this year (and this email) like Blackpool does through a stick of rock - inflation, energy prices, tax rises and more..."