A pensioner has been forced to take legal action after a bank withheld his £193,000 inheritance. Peter Teich, 74, from Cambridge gave his solicitor the wrong sort code and the money was mistakenly transferred to another Barclays customer's account, who refused to return it. He expected to receive the...

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Total Debt £18,926

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Eleven year bankruptcy restriction for bank worker who stole people

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 7th February 2014 20:24.

Christopher Mark Wathen, a client relationship manager for a bank, has been handed an 11-year bankruptcy restrictions from 3 January for...

Somebody has offered me a I pad air for £ 250 .....only a week old they can't get on with it...

Are they any good ?

My pension went from £50,000 to £15,000 - Virgin Money

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 6th May 2013 09:09.

*A pensioner who had built up savings of almost £50,000 in a Virgin Money stakeholder pension was left with less than £15,000 after falling foul......

'Millions of low-income households' face council tax rise

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 31st January 2013 10:47.

Millions of the poorest households face council tax rises because most councils in England will pass on a 10% benefit funding cut, research......

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Just become a pensioner and cannot see myself being able to maintain the monthly payments for this loan (£290 p.m.) I could possibly make a F&F settlement of about £4,000 but not sure if this is the way to go?

• Type of account - Barclayloan Select Flexible

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I have been given conflicting advice by two plumbers. I have an old and very reliable Potterton Kingfisher 2 gas boiler - positioned outside my house (ie not inside a room). I have had to replace the boiler flue and the plumber installed it in exactly the same position as the old asbestos one....

Death of the High Street Salesmen

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 3rd October 2012 09:33.

Banks will be banned from taking commissions to sell you duff products....Going to a bank branch for help with an Isa, pension or other investment...

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Last year I made a successful claim for unlawful charges against Fashion World in which they paid back roughly about £300. However within the same year they started adding charges again and I also noticed they now also charge me around £5 a month for a credit charge as they reactivated my account...

Mum's old pay as you go mobile was no longer working, so she passed on £40 to my sister to pick one up from Argos, the link to this is below (price gone down now as well unfortunately).
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Search...ms/5185786.htm

However, on using it - it was very...

Australian Keith Wright loves travelling round the world with his backpack - but unlike the teenagers and twenty-somethings he meets on his adventures, he is 95 years old.

The sprightly pensioner from Burleigh Heads in the state of Queensland is about to set off again, this time on...

Lloyds TSB pays compensation after lending dementia patient £18,000

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 9th June 2012 08:05.

Lloyds TSB has agreed to pay compensation after lending a woman with dementia £18,000 for home improvements. The bank allowed pensioner...

Pensioner debt worries intensify

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 24th May 2012 09:18.

*Pensioner debt worries intensify * *More than a third of older people do not feel that the income from their pensions and savings is enough to...

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