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Households are starting to receive a larger rebate on their energy bill under the Warm Home Discount scheme but concerns remain for those missing out. The rebate was frozen at £140 for nearly a decade, but this winter it has increased to £150 and will be discounted automatically from bills.more

"Fakt" asked the seniors for the third time how they lived. The results were presented on today's Senior's Day. "The financial situation of 72 percent of seniors has deteriorated compared to last year" - we can read in today's edition of the journal.more

Thousands of Dutch people are being watched by former partners using smart home devices, informs RTL Nieuws. According to the website's findings, modern devices are often used to harass former partners.more

Thousands of households which use smart meters and are in debt on their energy bills are being moved over to a prepay method which costs more and could leave them cut-off. more

Farmers take care of their cattle and pigs, but not themselves. In the UK, one farmer commits suicide every week. That's why an early intervention program initiated in Scotland, Farmstrong, is being launched there.more

To compensate for the effects of inflation, the Bundestag decided yesterday to introduce tax breaks that will cover 48 million of 84 million German citizens. Will be increased, among others child allowance. In addition, the housing benefit reform is expected to ease the burden on low-income households.more

Civil servants are another professional group in the UK that will be on strike demanding pay raises. The PCS trade union representing them informed yesterday that in the voting conducted over 100,000 people members backed the protest.more

Almost a third of 11 to 16-year-olds (31%) spent their own money on some form of gambling in the last year, according to a survey.more

Christmas adverts have started on TV - and as ever, many conjure up sentimentality, nostalgia and joy. But as the cost of living soars, some retailers have opted for a more muted approach to their campaigns this year.more

The government has raised the retirement age by three months to 67 and three months in 2028, media reports. In the Netherlands, it is equal for men and women, and the decision to increase was made due to the increase in life expectancy of the inhabitants of the Netherlands.more

Currently, over 70 percent. of respondents support accepting refugees from Ukraine, and by October 77 percent. donated money or gifts in kind - informs in today's edition of "Gazeta Polska Codziennie".more

More than half of those surveyed (55.7 percent) believe that the budget situation of the Polish state is bad or very bad, according to the latest United Surveys poll for "DGP" and RMF FM. The opposite view is held by 13.6 percent of respondents. 23.9 percent think it is average - neither good nor bad, and 6.8 percent have no opinion.more

New research shows a third of men are putting off doing prostate cancer checks, which have the potential to be life-saving. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK – one in eight are diagnosed with the disease in their lifetime. more

More than 70,000 workers at 150 British universities - university lecturers and support staff - will go on a three-day strike at the end of November, demanding pay increases and improved working conditions, the UCU union representing them announced yesterday.more

The famous singer admits that there was a time when he benefited from school meals. Today, he wrote an open letter to Britain's new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, asking him to expand the free school meals program for students from poor families. The letter was published just before the government presents its budget plan for next year.more

According to the GfK Purchasing Power Europe 2022 survey, Poland dropped one position to the 29th position in the survey measuring the purchasing power of 42 European countries. The average purchasing power in Poland amounted to over 9,200 euro, while the average for Europe is over 16.3 thousand euro.more

In the first half of October, more than half of gainfully employed people positively assessed the situation at their establishments, according to a CBOS survey. Compared to the previous month, there was a slight improvement in assessments of the current situation at workplacesmore

A quarter of UK adults have less than £100 set aside in savings, a survey suggests, leaving them vulnerable to rising and unexpected bills. more

YouGov launched a survey to ask British people what they thought about the ‘screaming child surcharge’.more

Forty-six percent of employees say they intend to switch employers if they increase the number of days they work in the office, and more than 30 percent would accept lower wages if it allowed them to decide the number of days they work remotely, according to a survey by Deloitte.more

Food banks (Tafel) in Germany have never before supplied so many people. "Since the beginning of the year, we have seen a 50 percent increase in the number of customers," - relayed the head of Tafel Deutschland Jochen Bruehl to the Rheinische Post daily yesterday. This means that some 2 million people are benefiting.more

Almost half of UK workers have had their accents mocked, criticised or singled out in a social setting, a survey suggests. more

68 percent of Poles are concerned about the stability of their earnings, while 23 percent are afraid of losing their jobs, according to a survey by ARC Rynek i Opinia on the current economic situation released Thursday.more

A clear majority of Britons believe the government has lost control of the country's borders, and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is not seen as a politician who can solve the problem of illegal immigration across the English Channel, according to a poll released.more

The number of people in England and Wales who were born outside the UK has increased by 2.5 million since 2011, latest census data shows.more