New data shows families with disabled children, and single parents with offspring under the age of three facing financial hardshipKeir Starmer is facing new calls to end the controversial two-child limit on benefits if Labour...
Read MoreNew tax year means threshold for benefit charge linked to higher earnings rises to £60,000Several hundred thousand families are to be better off, some by as much as £3,000, during the 2024-25 tax year after the...
Read MoreMartin Lewis among those encouraging consumers to make a note so they do not overpay when cap reducedMillions of households are being urged to submit meter readings to their energy supplier this weekend to ensure they do not...
Read MoreGDP fell 0.3% in three months to December after collapse in retail sales in run-up to ChristmasBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK economy fell into recession at the end of last year as hard-pressed households cut back on...
Read MoreGDP fell 0.3% in three months to December after collapse in retail sales in run-up to ChristmasBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK economy fell into recession at the end of last year as hard-pressed households cut back on...
Read MoreDecember figures pose dilemma for Bank of England, dampening hopes of early interest rate cutBusiness live – latest updatesPay growth slowed less than expected in December as workers continued to bid up their wages amid...
Read MoreWith national insurance at the centre of the autumn statement, we explain how this complicated UK tax worksPolitics live: Hunt says ‘silly’ to see tax cuts as election giveawayTax cuts favour richest 20%, thinktank...
Read MoreWarning comes after Resolution Foundation finds autumn statement favours richest 20% of earnersAutumn statement 2023: key points at a glanceHunt tax cuts fuel talk of spring electionBritish households are on course to be worse...
Read MoreAmid less gloomy OBR forecasts the chancellor is expected to take first steps towards cutting personal taxesJeremy Hunt will announce 110 measures to boost Britain’s stagnant economy and bow to demands from anxious Tory...
Read MoreHouseholds could save £400 a year on energy bills via means-tested insulation schemeHouseholds could save up to £400 a year on energy bills under a new means-tested scheme to insulate more than 300,000 of Great...
Read MoreResolution Foundation predicts average Britons will be 4% poorer but better-off pensioners will be ‘big winners’UK workers’ living standards will flatline next year, leaving them on track to be 4% worse off...
Read MoreTUC says urgent investment needed in ‘Cinderella sectors’ to head off demographic timebomb‘Invisible, endless, relentless’: the reality of care work in EnglandChronic under-investment, exploitation and...
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