More than 1 million incidents of financial fraud occurred in the first six months of 2016, according to official figures released by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK). This represents a 53% increase compared to the same period last year, this means an incident happened in the UK every 15 seconds between January and June […]
It has been reported that the average annual care home fee is now in excess of £30,000 – way beyond what the average pensioner can realistically expect to receive (which is actually about £14,456!). The average length of stay in a care home is 2.5 years. Therefore £75,000 is needed to cover the total costs, […]
You may recall we sent out a budget summary earlier in the year that included the Lifetime ISA (LISA). To recap the details, this is an ISA for those under 40 years of age and can only be used for retirement (after the age of 60), or for the purchase of a first home. The […]
So university fees seem to be going in only one direction … and that’s up! From September 2017 fees will rise to £9,250 per year, and that is purely for the education element of the experience – it does not include the cost of living per student per year. So before considering how they will […]
NatWest and RBS are the first banks to issue warnings to 1.3 million businesses and commercial customers that they may have to start charging for bank deposits – in effect introducing negative interest rates. Whilst the norm is that money deposited in the bank receives interest in return (albeit not a lot at the moment), […]
The right time to borrow is definitely when interest rates are at their lowest, so if you have a credit card don’t rush to pay off your balance just yet, especially if you have money in the bank that means you are able to. If you are in this situation it means you are at […]
