My 11-year-old daughter made more than 300 in-app purchases over five days on Roblox, the online games platform, resulting in a £2,400 bill on my wife’s PayPal account. At the time, my wife was in ICU recovering from a 15-hour operation to remove a brain tumour. Incapacitated, and without access to her phone, she was…
About 300,000 property purchases in England could benefit from a three-month extension in the stamp duty holiday, it has been estimated, as reports suggest the chancellor could be set to prolong the tax break in next week’s budget. The tax saving – which cuts the bill entirely on properties costing between £125,000 and £500,000 and…
Rishi Sunak has ruled out a rise in fuel duty after concluding that reliance on cars as a transport safety measure during the pandemic is still too great, Treasury sources have said. The chancellor is understood to have seriously considered an increase before his previous budget last March, keen to send a signal about the…
The average student has paid £1,621 in rent for rooms that they have been unable to use owing to Covid restrictions, according to a survey. For many, the rent has added to their financial worries after losing term-time employment or support from their parents. Three students share their experiences of financial strain during the pandemic….
I read your article about a reader who had trouble remortgaging because Equifax failed to record his data correctly. I am having exactly the same trouble. I moved house nine months ago. At that time my credit rating was “excellent”. I registered on the electoral roll two months later. However, when I applied for a…
London has overtaken New York as home to the highest concentration of dollar millionaires in the world, according to a report that reveals how much money the very richest people in the world have made during the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 875,000 Londoners are dollar millionaires (denoting assets worth more than £720,000), according to an annual…
