EU finance ministers reach draft deal on bank bailouts

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 27th June 2013 08:00.

European Union (EU) finance ministers have agreed an outline plan on how to rescue troubled banks - without leaving taxpayers to face the bill. The......

Payday lending summit is called by ministers

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 25th June 2013 16:22.

Lenders, regulators and government ministers are being summoned to a summit about the UK's payday loans industry next week. The meeting aims to come...
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Labour leader Ed Miliband has promised to give councils more powers to ban payday lenders, pawnbrokers and bookmakers from town centres.

Launching his party's local election campaign, he said it would "stand up for those without power" and criticised "extortionate"...

Bankers and politicos now feel the euro is safe enough for it to be ok to levy a one off fee on peoples savings.

Putting aside the reasons, russians money laundering taxpayers in Germany not happy how many would be happy with this decision?

And whats more why do the banks...

£75,000 cap on cost of care will lose thousands of pensioners their homes

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 9th February 2013 10:42.

A chief architect of plans to limit the cost of long-term care has criticised ministers for setting the cap so high that thousands...

Just about everyone one saying it apart from the PM and his DWP Ministers.

News release

Friday 8 February

Disability Rights UK welcomes the report published by the Public Accounts Committee on the Work Capability Assessment. They found that the work capability...

Just announced


Esther McVey MP
Minister for Disabled People
Oral statement on Personal Independence Payment
House of Commons
Reform

The Government is committed to enabling disabled people to fulfil their potential and play a full role...

Government stalls on payday loan regulation despite 'legal loan sharks' targeting hard-up families

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 14th November 2012 18:34.

*.....'legal loan sharks' targeting hard-up families at Christmas* Ministers have refused to consider...

Low payday loans tactics:

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 11th November 2012 11:58.

*scandal of ‘lost’ customers' cheques * Payday lenders regularly ‘lose’ cheques sent by customers to settle debts, forcing borrowers to pay even ...

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Wonga hires No.10 insider to lobby against payday curbs

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 30th October 2012 18:53.

*......as critics slam lender's 'cosy' relations with ministers * Wonga has hired one of the Prime Minister's senior advisers to lobby on its......

Will try and post MOJs etc Information sheets of Interest in this area.

Loan firm’s wonga buys the ears of ministers

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 17th October 2012 10:37.

*Conservative ministers agreed to hold meetings with the controversial payday loans company Wonga in exchange for payments to the party, Source:...
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So for those of you who remember the Pixmania fight I had a year ago, here we go again!

Mums washing machine has been owned since 21 October 2010, and has broken down. They want £120 call out fee for the engineer, but the parts are apparently free as she had a free one year extension...

Yes I did read that and sadly I am finding many similar cases on facebook etc.

It is were I have been for the past few days helping these poor souls because many are oblivious to there entitlements and the associated rules and regulations.

The Government said they was cutting...

Government 'discussing full nationalisation of RBS' as ministers clash on policies to increase lendi

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 2nd August 2012 12:25.

Senior government figures are discussing the possibility of a full nationalisation of Royal Bank of Scotland...