A summer VAT cut on certain leisure and restaurant activities and free bus travel for children are among the key policies in the government’s latest attempts to help households with the cost of living ...

Investment platforms are starting to stop paying interest on uninvested cash. It comes ahead of the changes to ISA rules from April 2027. Don't miss the latest investment and personal finances news, ...

In February, major US brokers such as Marsh & McLennan , Willis Towers Watson, Aon and Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. declined by 8%-11% in a single day on news that OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, had ...

Chase is set to increase the cashback offered on its credit and debit cards but the criteria may make it harder to qualify for the perks. The JP Morgan-owned bank has grown market share in recent ...

The government has laid out its design of the so-called mansion tax, which would see owners of homes in England worth £2 million or more slapped with an extra charge from April 2028. Don't miss the ...

The consumer prices index (CPI) rose by 2.8% in the 12 months to April 2026 The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows that inflation dipped in the year to April, down from 3.3% in ...

NS&I has laid out a timeline of when tens of thousands of bereaved families will be reunited with lost savings. The government-backed savings bank acknowledged in March that an “operational failure” ...

Around 15 million people are under saving for retirement, even with auto-enrolment, a new report from the Pensions Commission has warned. The Pensions Commission was revived by the government last ...

Pensioners are increasingly pulling all of their retirement funds out in one go, facing the risk of high tax bills and running out of money in later life. We look at what to consider before taking the ...

Economist Paul Johnson analyses the UK economy's inequality and stagnation, and explains why we are running out of options to ...

The government is under growing pressure to reform the controversial triple lock on the state pension. Set up under the Tory government in 2011, the triple lock is used to calculate how much the state ...