The UK's banks have disagreed on how to pay for refunds to customers who have been tricked into transferring money to sophisticated fraudsters. A temporary agreement has been in place since May, making it easier for victims of so-called authorised push payment (APP) fraud to get money back. Now it has...

I hadn't really heard of this scheme until recently but went on the Govt web site to have a look.
It stated you need to qualify by satisfying all three of the below -

1) Your supplier offers the scheme
2) Your name (or your partners) is on the bill
3) You recieve the gurantee...

How much digging do lenders do into your employer ?

In this risk averse world, do they do a financial health check on your employer and if so, how ?

Mine seems fine but it is only small and obviously has more chance of going to the wall than BP so does that figure in the underwriting...

Lifestyle quiz to secure a mortgage

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 25th April 2014 07:15.

Mortgage applicants face tougher questions about their lifestyle, under new rules that take effect on Saturday. The changes are designed to "hardwire...
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Homebuyers could find themselves turned down for a mortgage because of their gym memberships, phone bills and pension payments, under new rules introduced this weekend, experts have warned.


Mortgage advisers said new restrictions introduced under the Mortgage Market Review (MMR)...

Hi All

Quick question to all the private landlords.....

We are looking at renting and viewed a house this week that we were very interested in. Its been on the market for several months now with at least one collapsed application (applicants decided they liked something else)....

........and who later make a claim for Jobseeker's Allowance, have a legal right to restrict their availability for employment where they can demonstrate that their health still poses a barrier to employment.

Here's the proof:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s...

GOVERNMENT APPEAL AGAINST WORK CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT DISCRIMINATION RULING IS REJECTED

The Court of Appeal today (4 December 2013) rejected the Government’s appeal against a landmark ruling by the Upper Tribunal that the Work Capability Assessment discriminates against people with...

Hi
I would like to introduce myself.
My name is Peter Maddison, I am fairly new to Ubuntu, I first started with Ubuntu 11.10 when a Schoolfirend, who'd moved to USA got me interested in Ubuntu after I was explaining how much I hated the new Window$7 (I was an XP user). I tried it...

Mrs RTB got a Christmas job at Sainsburys last year which has now ended. When she applied we discovered that they now require you to supply all sorts of documents even before they'll interview you. A mad panic ensued and we managed to get a full birth certificate in time (they wouldn't accept the short...

Jan 9th, 2013

Press Release From the Mental Health Resistance Network.

Re: Judicial Review of the Work Capability Assessment

On 15 and 16 January 2013, the Upper Tribunal is due to hear a claim for judicial review brought by two disabled people supported by...

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

Two Citizens who the Judge granted anonymity have been successful in having a Judicial Review on the Work Capability Assessment granted by the High Court.

This JR centres around citizens with Mental Health Issues and I Quote:

"The present case concerns some of the problems...

Payday loan applicants increase four-fold as Christmas nears

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 22nd December 2011 18:50.

More than four times as many people applied for a payday loan in the last two weeks than in the whole of November. Ferratum, Europe’s biggest......

Barclaycard confuses customers with 11% cashback deal that only lasted three days

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 7th December 2011 21:18.

Barclaycard has angered customers after pulling a cashback credit card offer after just three days – leaving some successful...