by Steve | Apr 20, 2018 | News, Pensions, Personal Finance
Prepare yourselves for a slightly lighter pay packet this month: Your workplace pension contributions are increasing. With the start of the new tax year on 6th April 2018, your contributions will more than double from 1% to 3%. That rise is expected to affect millions...
by Steve | Mar 23, 2018 | Debt, Loans, Pensions, Personal Finance, Saving
With the new season almost upon us, it’s not just your house you’ll want to think about getting into order – your finances can always do with a bit of a spring clean too. Of course, you’ll need more than a feather duster and a bit of polish. But the...
by Steve | Aug 24, 2017 | News, Pensions, Personal Finance
Say goodbye to those unwanted pension salesmen calling you up at all hours of the day – the Government has announced a crackdown on the scams which have cost thousands of savers tens of millions of pounds. The ban on cold-calling and unsolicited text messages and...
by Steve | Jul 27, 2017 | News, Pensions, Personal Finance, Saving
The Government has confirmed that they intend to increase the age of retirement, from 67 to 68, at a faster pace than previously thought. Originally, the intention was to increase the upper age limit by 2044; now David Gauke, the Work and Pensions Secretary has said...
by Steve | May 29, 2017 | Pensions, Personal Finance, Saving
It’s not just the UK that’s being threatened with a financially devastating pensions crisis. The world’s biggest economies currently face a £54 trillion blackhole – a figure that, without strong leadership from the governments, will rise to more than...
by Steve | May 4, 2017 | Infographics, Pensions
It’s been well-documented that savings rates for UK households are fairly abysmal – a report from the Lords Exclusion Committee found that 40% of all savers have less than £100 stashed away. But no less worrying is a recent study from lender Lending Works that shows...