Rising tide of premiums
Homeowners face a surge in household insurance as the cost of recent flooding means that premiums are facing steep rises
p Jeff Salway on the risks inherent in self-invested personal pensions – you may not have to pay so much for money managers but you could end up paying in other ways
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Paying price of scandal
After the scandals of the pre-crash mortgage industry, with no checks on who could afford to pay huge loans, the pendulum is now swinging the other way, with proposals for new rules on affordability which could restrict even further the availability of home loans
p As energy companies continue to raise their prices, the effort to help people reduce their bills is being stepped up, as Citizens Advice Scotland’s Susan McPhee explains
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