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In December, I received a letter from the Student Loans Company (SLC) telling me I was due to finish repaying my student loan within the next year, and that I needed to change my payment plan to avoid overpaying. I called and was told that an error on my account was preventing them seeing my …
Households increased their borrowing in May for the first time in eight months as the easing of lockdown rules coincided with a fall in loan interest rates. Figures from the Bank of England showed the first significant credit spending surge since last August, as a run of net repayments by households came to an end …
The Labour MP Stella Creasy is threatening to take legal action after being told she cannot hire a locum to cover her maternity leave after the birth of her second child. Creasy’s pre-action letter to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), which regulates MPs’ pay and expenses, comes as a bill to enshrine the right …
House prices in the UK are growing at the fastest annual rate in 17 years, with all regions picking up, according to Britain’s biggest building society. The average price of a UK home rose 0.7% in June from May to £245,432, taking the annual rate to 13.4% – marking the highest annual growth rate since …
I have had a two-year battle to get Nationwide to treat disabled credit card users like the rest of its customers. Like many others, I have a contactless chip and signature card that requires me to sign (rather than input a pin) for high-value items, and for when the system needs to verify it is …