Tens of thousands of the UK's poorest householders are disconnecting their own power supplies, because they cannot afford to top up their meters. Energy regulator Ofgem said it was so concerned that it wanted further evidence on the scale of the problem. In the past year, 70,000 people on pre-payment...

Hi. Im new here and looking for some help.

A bit of background info:

I was in debt for a good few years starting about 8 years ago. Eventually cleared it up via a DMP 3 ish years ago. My credit score was destroyed then and still hasnt recovered but is very slowly creeping...

The only truly free bank account

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on: 4th March 2016 13:15
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Has Niddy been advising the Greek government??and Zoi Konstantopolou today she declares the debt illegal,illigitimate and odious!!

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015...te-and-odious/


Onlyme again

The young and workers at greater risk of poverty

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 26th November 2014 13:26.

While the elderly and the unemployed used to be at the greatest risk of poverty, it is now the young and those in work who are most vulnerable, a......

Wearing a thick support belt and hunched over thanks to back and leg problems, 63-year-old Chen Shu-chu puts peppers, taro and mushrooms into bags for customers at her vegetable stand in eastern Taiwan.

She does this for up to 18 hours a day, six days a week. But no matter how much money...

Did anyone else watch the two Sport relief pieces BBC1 has done the last couple of nights, dealing with breadline living and utter food poverty.
They were all affected by debt in one form or another, but the one that got me was tonight.
Famous Rich and Hungry available here: http://www....

Autumn Statement 2013: Britain can no longer afford welfare state, warns Osborne

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 3rd December 2013 13:34.

*George Osborne will set out more details on his planned cap on welfare spending in the Autumn Statement on Thursday*...

Government loses job scheme appeal

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 30th October 2013 10:17.

*The government has lost a Supreme Court appeal over a ruling that its flagship "back to work" schemes were legally flawed......Read more HERE...

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But after reading so much info from the web, and looking through all of the posts on this super duper forum, am i correct in thinking i may be able to relieve my pension provider of 25% of my hard earned pension cash at age 55, even if i continue to work??????

It may be right, but i am...

We have run up a 'small' debt (large to us) of just over £800 with SWALEC for our gas and electricity usage. I am disabled and am usually confined to the house 24 hours a day. As our living room is dark, we tend to have to have lights on all the time.

We already pay £30 a week to them...

Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are the King's.

The skeleton is 'beyond reasonable doubt' the remains of Richard III. A skeleton found beneath a Leicester car park has been confirmed as that of English king Richard III.

Experts from the University of Leicester said DNA...

Government seeks to move goalposts on what counts as 'fuel poverty'

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 18th September 2012 16:23.

The Government is seeking change the definition of the key measure of 'fuel poverty' - with the effect that far fewer households could...

OK, so we all know its been happening but what does everyone think?

Is there anything you can see that is really going to hit you hard?

Is there anything that you feel is a move in the right direction?

Pensions under siege as Bank of England rescue plan leaves a million savers facing poverty

This is a duplicate of the Blog Entry made on 15th February 2012 10:13.

More than one million pensioners have been consigned to a life of poverty because of the Bank of England’s...