money debt and credit advice
UK councils attacked for issuing 1.2 million local tax court orders
Liberal democrats attack ‘heavyhanded’ treatment by UK councils over local tax debts
Girlguiding UK launches series of guides to help 16-18 year olds learn life skills
Forget homemaking and knot-tying, girl guides are being issued with tips on financial matters to help them survive the credit crunch.
In a leaflet for its members, Girlguiding UK recommends that they avoid using store cards, shop around for bank accounts and products and protect themselves from identity theft. It also suggests they stop relying [...]
The financial crisis: Reasons to be fearful
A new year is usually a time for hope. But today many of us are full of doubt. The financial crisis has brought wave after wave of bad news, replacing the old certainties with a sense of dread and insecurity. And then there’s terrorism, climate change and social breakdown… Are our nightmares based in reality [...]
It’s time to settle the bill for all that festive goodwill
Thousands of shoppers who over-flexed their plastic on Christmas presents will be dreading checking, let alone paying off, their credit card balances.
Tomorrow is predicted to be the busiest day of 2009 for credit card balance transfer applications, according to comparison website Compareandsave.com, as more than 6,000 consumers will attempt to cope with their financial Christmas [...]
Your problems: Margaret Dibben writes your wrongs
With no notice, our SkyCard credit limit was reduced from £7,000 to £1,330. It is now unusable until we pay off the current month’s statement. We use the card for much of our monthly expenditure but then pay off the balance every month. We have never missed a payment. When we queried why the limit [...]
Get real: your debts won’t vanish by magic, so start tackling them now
There is no getting away from the fact that millions of us are going to feel stressed out by our finances over the next year as the recession takes hold. The good news is that only a small percentage of us will end up in the disastrous position of going bankrupt or having our homes [...]
If you’re struggling with debt the best advice is free online
Has your purse taken a pounding over the last couple of weeks? Here’s our selection of websites to lend an online hand:
cccs.co.uk
The free “debt remedy” at the Consumer Credit Counselling Service is a top-notch dose of online medicine for anyone whose finances are groaning under the weight of debts. Click on the “Complete [...]
If you’re struggling with debt the best advice is free online
Has your purse taken a pounding over the last couple of weeks? Here’s our selection of websites to lend an online hand:
cccs.co.uk
The free “debt remedy” at the Consumer Credit Counselling Service is a top-notch dose of online medicine for anyone whose finances are groaning under the weight of debts. Click on the “Complete [...]
If you’re struggling with debt the best advice is free online
Has your purse taken a pounding over the last couple of weeks? Here’s our selection of websites to lend an online hand:
cccs.co.uk
The free “debt remedy” at the Consumer Credit Counselling Service is a top-notch dose of online medicine for anyone whose finances are groaning under the weight of debts. Click on the “Complete [...]
If you’re struggling with debt the best advice is free online
Has your purse taken a pounding over the last couple of weeks? Here’s our selection of websites to lend an online hand:
cccs.co.uk
The free “debt remedy” at the Consumer Credit Counselling Service is a top-notch dose of online medicine for anyone whose finances are groaning under the weight of debts. Click on the “Complete [...]
