British holidaymakers will be barred from the EU from 1 January as the European commission has indicated there will be no exemption for the UK from Covid-19 safety restrictions, apart from for Northern Ireland residents travelling to the Republic of Ireland. What does it all mean for Britons with a holiday booked in 2021 –…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is coming under pressure to stop hounding unwitting victims of a multimillion-pound universal credit fraud. In November, the Guardian revealed how benefits staff were struggling to deal with calls from people whose stolen identities had been used to make fraudulent universal credit claims in their name. We featured…
Would you like a story where everything worked for a change? In January, we booked a family get-together at Center Parcs in July. When Coronavirus arrived, we reluctantly decided not to go, mainly because of the risk of infection on the train or planes that some of us would need to use. Although the holiday…
Money guru Martin Lewis has warned of an “explosion” of buy-now, pay-later companies which he said were targeting the under-30s and getting them into debt. Lewis told MPs in a House of Commons select committee hearing that regulation was urgently required. Klarna: shopper’s best friend or a fast track to debt?Read more “It is absolutely…
Shoppers face temporary shortages of some fresh foods and higher prices if the UK fails to strike a Brexit deal with the EU, the chairman of Tesco has warned. John Allan said a no-deal Brexit would trigger tariffs, “which can be quite substantial on some food items”. “Those almost inevitably are going to lead to…
I am a Belgian citizen living in the Netherlands. I have a Nationwide mortgage on a UK property and, like many, have recently been informed that my current account will be closed on 31 December due to Brexit. However, it is still unclear what will happen to my mortgage. Direct questions from my side about…
