One for all my debt adviser and creditor colleagues here:

“Dutch city pilots radical debt cancellation scheme for poor families”

The Dutch city of Arnhem is going to cancel the debts of some of the poorest families in the Netherlands in an attempt to break a health-crushing…

UK's biggest credit card provider, Barclaycard, will slash the amount its customers pay from their debt each month, cutting the 2.5% or 3.75% to just 1% of their debt, doubling the time to pay it off and the interest charged with Debt Camel Sara Williams BBC Money Box noon BBC Radio 4

🚨Carer’s Allowance latest: New figures show more than 150,000 unpaid carers are now facing huge fines for minor rule breaches, as MPs, charities and campaigners demand an immediate amnesty.

A judge and other legal experts raise concerns about DWP cases:
theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

If your tax code is wrong then you could end up paying the wrong amount in tax, unknowingly overpaying on tax or underpaying on your tax, ending up with a large tax bill at the end of the year.

This LITRG article looks at common PAYE tax code issues: buff.ly/3Wgqlxz

Carer's allowance scandal latest: Government dementia adviser quits over the DWPs treatment of unpaid carers, describing the prosecutions of vulnerable people as “beyond the pale”. theguardian.com/society/2024/a… via Josh Halliday

Definitely NOT closing down! Let's put that rumour to bed right now and spread the word!

There's far too much work yet for us to do. Demand is as usual, through the roof!

Until everyone is a Money Buddy! 😀

See our outreach sessions here:
moneybuddies.org.uk/outreach-timet…

If anyone in politics wants a fitting memorial to Frank, rather than just pious words, it would be the abolition of the two-child limit, the topic of his very last report. He wrote:

“No Government should be willing to accept” it and its consequences.

committees.parliament.uk/committee/164/…

My The Guardian story: MPs call for a full-scale review of carer’s allowance and an end to harsh benefit rules that see unpaid carers fined and prosecuted - as new official figures show DWP failing to get a grip on overpayments. theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Your periodic reminder that England, a windswept nation with more potential for onshore wind power than almost anywhere else in the world (other than Scotland), banned new onshore wind farms in 2017.

Barclaycard cuts minimum payments on its credit cards - this may cost you a lot via Debt Camel debtcamel.co.uk/barclaycards-m…

Barclaycard is cutting minimum payments a lot - down to the bare legal minimum. This will cost many customers a lot more and result in persistent credit card debt problems
debtcamel.co.uk/barclaycards-m…

We’re calling for Financial Conduct Authority to:

✅Commit to publishing a league table, naming and shaming firms who charge the highest interest rates, every six months.

✅Urgently taking action against firms that continue to charge unfair amounts of interest.

Really bad take - premised on the odd idea that we have been building homes and that ‘hasn’t been working’’…

'We’ve got a billionaire prime minister and a billionaire peer, both of whose families have used schemes to avoid millions of pounds of tax, smearing a working-class woman.' one of the best things i've seen keir starmer say theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

I notice Keir Starmer belatedly weighing in on the Carers Allowance fraud/overpayments scandal with some vague outrage short of any actual proposal. CA needs to increase hugely AND the earnings limit needs to be much higher so people can combine care with work. Both will cost £££

Accountant in Bankruptcy Insolvency Service as many as 371 mis-sold trust deeds and 675 mis-sold IVAs by one Tiktok clownshoe alone. Whenever will Financial Conduct Authority ASA take note? IVA Lead Terminator

Yet councils get little in return because they lease them to golf clubs on the cheap.

One council-owned golf course pays just £13,500 a year in rent to Enfield council for 39 hectares. That’s £3,000 less than it costs to rent a one bed flat in Enfield.

Good contribution from La Cocina Borracha. Usual shite from the bailiff industry ('everyone is lying') and the LGA ('always a last resort').
Props to my former debt advice comrades, dealing with unprecedented levels of CT arrears.
itv.com/news/2024-04-1…

letter to the Times from a former Conservative MP

This has the makings of a complete mess. Be interesting to know on what basis the Council is obliging RTB freeholders to have remedial works. standard.co.uk/news/london/ba…