Official minutes from the most recent MPC meeting show that two of the nine committee members felt it was necessary to increase the cost of borrowing and put further pressure on the million facing debt management difficulties in April. Despite…

Peter Spencer, chief economic adviser to the Ernst & Young Item, maintains that as the number of people facing debt management trouble increases, the potential impact of an interest rate rise is heightened also. And with such a rise looking…

Around a quarter of Brits have fallen victim to this kind of crime during the last half-decade and costly personal possessions are often never seen again, a Halifax Home Insurance study has demonstrated. Despite the billions of pounds worth of…

Figures from Scottish Widows Bank reveal that over the course of the last ten years, the number of people handing over cash to their children without wanting it returned has fallen six per cent. In addition, around 40 per cent…

Many Brits are taking out housing loans that can often put them at risk of debt management disaster, Merseyside MP Ben Chapman suggested to the prime minister. Mr Blair said he considered the issue to be of “crucial” importance and…

A Yorkshire Bank Mortgages survey has revealed that a full 44 per cent of new homebuyers in the UK could be risking debt management ruin by failing to make allowances for added costs such as legal fees or stamp duty.…

The former education spokesman for the Liberal Democrat party Phil Willis MP recently echoed calls from ifs to establish financial education as a distinct part of national curriculum, which can stand alone as an examinable subject area. Only in this…

According to the financial services firm, the cost of ensuring an elderly person can spend a year at a nursing home in the UK is greater than the fees for sending a child to one of the country’s most prestigious…