Drivers caught speeding will face tougher penalties of up to 175pc of their weekly income under new rules introduced on Monday. Fines for serious offenders will start from 150pc of their weekly income rather than the current level of 100pc. The fines are split into bands from A to C. The penalty depends...

BBC News - Pension exit fee consultation starts

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 31st July 2015 23:15.

The government has launched a consultation, to decide whether pension exit fees should be capped. Putting a limit on exit charges is one of...

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Regulator capped mis-selling payouts

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 24th July 2015 15:34.

*The Treasury lobbied financial regulators to limit compensation for business victims of mis-selling by banks, the BBC has learned. * Thousands of...

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Pension exit fees under scrutiny

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 17th June 2015 16:20.

*"Excessive" early exit penalties handed to people wishing to withdraw money from their pension pot could be capped. * Chancellor George Osborne...

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Hi Plan B,
Some advice please if possible,
My son and his partner have just rented a flat, having moved in 3 days ago, the heating does not work properly, the sink is not working as it has tissue paper...

Payday loan charges cap takes effec

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 2nd January 2015 11:53.

*A cap on the cost of payday loans enforced by the City regulator has now come into effect.* Payday loan rates will be capped at 0.8% per day of the...

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Wife and I have a standard Santander joint current account which our Santander mortgage bills etc come out of. Santander have been bugging us for months to switch to a 123 account. After doing the sums, after charges we would get around 60 quid cashback a year. Not interested in the credit card. So...

Pension fees cap is set for 2015

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 27th March 2014 19:35.

Management fees charged by pension providers will be "put in a vice" and capped from April next year, Pensions Minister Steve Webb has said. The...

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24319583

Has anyone had any dealing with M&S? old chargecard/storecard, I know they have changed it a newer version, just wondered whether this might be UE. I know they used to sign you up in store, im talking ten+ yrs ago. If you go past date by one day they phone six times a day. I,m pondering as to what...

BBC News - Payday loan rates

Payday loans will engulf Britain in a 'tsunami of debt' warns MP

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 14th November 2012 12:18.

*Labour MP Stella Creasy has warned that a "debt tsunami" will engulf Britain if the payday loans industry is not regulated. New...

I have been recently experiencing a fair few wireless drops and also router losing connection

Plusnet are adamant that there is no issue here and seem to think that i have a perfectly good line (although im stuck with 2-3meg, 8 houses down the road can get fibre and get 80meg) and even...

Letters explaining a new benefits cap are being sent out, and some people could receive them even if they are exempt from the changes in April 2013. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) said changing circumstances for some claimants could make the letters out of date. The first letters are expected...

Does anybody with amazing technical knowledge have an easy way to help a tech-thicko with an issue, please?

I have a snom phone, which is plugged into my Zyxel router.

Currently, the pc broadband has priority; by this I mean if I am downloading stuff, the snom phone seems...