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Soaring inflation has taken an average of £5,455 from UK households in the past two years, with the UK losing £153bn to rising prices overall. more

Morrisons has brought back its More Card loyalty scheme to replace its My Morrisons app following a successful trial. The Morrisons More scheme, which replaces the My Morrisons scheme, can be used as a physical card or app and allows customers to earn points from selected products and counters in store and online as well as at Morrisons petrol stations.more

Criminals are getting smarter at targeting victims to gain access to banking apps on mobile phones, a senior UK fraud officer has said. Detective Superintendent John Roch says the technology behind the apps is secure but criminals are getting better at exploiting human behaviour.more

Price increases at Costa have sent certain coffee options soaring past the £6 a cup mark, a Sunday Express investigation has found. more

London hospitality workers have seen some of the highest pay rises in the country, new data shows, as pubs, hotels and restaurants battle to attract and retain talent in the face of staff shortages and soaring costs.more

Nationwide says it hopes to replicate the move annually under new ‘Fairer Share’ scheme.more

The rising cost of living has seen prices increase across the board in the UK.more

Queen Elizabeth II's funeral and related events cost the government an estimated £162m, the Treasury has said. The state funeral, held on 19 September 2022, followed a period of national mourning.more

Citizens Advice also called for better promotion of social tariffs after separate Ofcom figures revealed just 5% of eligible households had taken them up.more

Let's face it, we are all getting pretty fed up with this cost of living crisis. It's severely impacting many people's quality of life, with many living pay cheque to pay cheque. It's gone on long enough now that a whopping two in three workers have admitted they are open to moving to a new city after evaluating the cost of where they live and work.more

E.On Next, Good Energy and Octopus Energy have paid £8 million over compensation failures after lengthy delays in producing final bills to more than 100,000 customers when they switched suppliers, regulator Ofgem said.more

The Bank of England's top economist has said he is sorry for using "inflammatory" language to suggest people must accept they are poorer.more

The number of adults struggling to pay their bills and debts has soared to nearly 11 million, new figures show.more

As the cost of living crisis continues, more much-needed financial help for those on low incomes is incoming. With energy bills, council tax and water bills all having risen lately - plus the cost of phones and broadband going up - most households are feeling the squeeze.more

The £2 cap on bus fares in England has been extended again until the end of October, the government has announced.more

Germany is considered a haven for money laundering in Europe. The lack of a limit on cash transactions is responsible for this, which criminals are eager to exploit, stresses Florian Koebler, chairman of the German tax union DSTG.more

Consumer pessimism is on the rise, as up to 91 percent of Poles are looking for cheaper places to shop, according to the "EY Future Consumer Index 2023" survey. 31 percent rate their situation compared to 3-4 months ago as worse, an increase of 20 percentage points from the previous survey.more

The Cabinet today approved a bill on another additional annual cash benefit for pensioners. This is a bill introducing the payment of the so-called 14th pension on a permanent basis, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced.more

As of 2024, 500 plus will be an 800 plus benefit. According to our information, an annual valorization of these funds is planned, the "Super Express" reports today.more

The high cost of sunscreen is resulting in more skin cancer cases, according to charities who are calling on the UK government to scrap VAT on protective creams.more

Embattled London tenants have been hit with yet further price rises as average rents hit a record £2,210 per month in April. Latest figures from estate agents Hamptons showed 1.5 per cent growth in the cost of a new let in the capital last month, amounting to an annual hike of 17.2 per cent.more

Households faced with sky-high bills despite wholesale energy prices falling for several months could soon finally start feeling some relief.more

Morrisons is cutting the prices of breakfast essentials by more than half after sky-high food prices were blamed for interest rates hitting 15-year highs. Morrisons chief executive David Potts promised shoppers would see many "deflation dividends" over the coming months, as the supermarket kicked off its fourth wave of price cuts since the start of the year.more

More than half of gig economy workers in the UK are earning less than the minimum wage, new research has found, with a quarter reporting that the nature of their work put their safety at risk.more

The boss of Tesco, the UK's largest supermarket chain, earned £4.44m last financial year despite halving the company's profit, according to its accounts published yesterday.more