Guests splash out a combined total of £13.8 billion annually on attending nuptial celebrations in the UK at an average of £340, figures released by Churchill Home Insurance has revealed. These amounts include the traditional ‘stag’ or ‘hen’ night, which…

However, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has disappointed some of those consumers facing debt management concerns by indicating the process will not be complete until towards the end of 2007. Pricing and charging practices among British banks are seen…

And the ongoing efforts by the organisation to stress the need for such a service have been backed up today by a work and pensions select committee report presented to the government. In its latest report, the committee suggests the…

Ill-informed decisions about which financial packages to take out and how to handle a debt management problem can often make a bad situation worse, Derek Oakley, from Debt Free Direct, suggests. The personal finance expert also claims that there are…

The work and pensions select committee suggests in its latest report that the personal accounts system, which was proposed in a government white paper last December, would need a national financial advice service to ensure its success. However, with millions…

A recent poll carried out by Ciao covered 1,000 British adults and revealed that around 83 per cent of those asked suggested they were worried that their children would eventually find themselves facing debt management trouble. The findings have been…

Debt management problems among millions of consumers have seen banks losing profits to bad debt in recent years and the so-called crackdown is seen as a direct response. Over the course of the last six months, more than 2.8 million…

Saving money for their children is proving increasingly difficult for the growing number of single parents across the country, the financial services provider makes clear. And in comparison with married parents, lone mothers or fathers are able to put away…