The temporary Triple Lock suspension has cost pensioners up to £9.35 a week. Call it a good day for burying bad news. Within hours of the Prime Minister announcing his long-awaited plans for social care in England in early September, the Department for Work and Pensions revealed that the Triple Lock for the new and old state pensions would not apply next April. This broke a 2019 Conservative manifesto pledge, but by then it was the third pledge of the day to be dispensed with

In September, the government revealed its long-awaited plans to reform England’s funding of social care, but many home care residents won’t reap the benefits. On becoming Prime Minister, Boris Johnson announced that he had “…a clear plan we have prepared” to deal with the funding of social care in England. The statement was met with a certain amount of scepticism, if only because governments of every hue had a track record of failing to produce and/or implement a social care

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says many savers may have too much cash and face the risk of wealth erosion. As the regulator for personal financial products, the FCA is rightly concerned about financial scams and savers who are encouraged to choose inappropriate high-risk investments. Both are serious issues: The FCA says that 3,378 consumers reported an estimated loss of £569 million to investment fraud in the year to 31 March 2021 – an almost threefold increase since

This week the BBC reported how a vicar returned from working away to find someone else living in his house and that he was no longer the legal owner. This is how mortgage free or empty properties fraud works. Fraudsters target properties to secure mortgages against them. Listed below are some types of properties or people that are most vulnerable to this: · Mortgage free properties · Vacant properties · Properties not registered on the Land Registry (normall