£3.5bn. Every year. That’s the amount the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) estimates is lost by the British public to scams. But surely “it couldn’t happen to me”? Well, three million victims a year probably …
With house prices falling, it is likely that people selling recently inherited properties will receive far less than the probate value. There is a special relief available to reduce any previous inheritance tax (IHT) charge, …
If you’ve been sold a dodgy financial product, complain. Tim Bennett tells you how. “Clear, fair and not misleading.” That, says the UK’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), is what any marketing used …
Parents eligible for the little-known Children’s Tax Credit Relief have until 31 January to claim, says Philip Scott on Thisismoney.co.uk. “It is suspected that tens of thousands… could be owed more than £1,000 each by …
“Two Porsche 911 Cabriolets, 23 round-the-world cruises, 2,425 dinners at Claridges: to think what might have been if you hadn’t gone all doe-eyed over the babygrows in Mothercare,” says Ruth Banks in MSN Money. With …
International phone calls need not cost an arm and a leg anymore, says Melanie Wright in The Sunday Telegraph. There are a couple of straightforward ways you can drastically reduce the cost of calling friends …
Reckon your Post Office pounds are (almost) as safe as the Bank of England? Think again. If you’re one of 500,000 savers at the Post Office, which offers Bank of Ireland (BoI) accounts, you’ll have …
I don’t have a will. According to research from Co-operative Legal Services, that’s something I have in common with 70% of the population. But as a single woman with no children whose most valuable possession …
Only one in ten broadband users regularly checks they are on the best deal, says Michael Phillips of Broadband Choices in The Daily Telegraph. But switching broadband packages can save you over £95 a year …
The banks may be offering derisory interest rates, but older savers (aged 50 to 75) can still earn a guaranteed return of up to 12% a year, provided they are prepared to tie up their …