Money dos and don’ts for freshers

If you recently bid a fond farewell to your children as they begin their first year at university, this advice to help them make their student loan stretch as far as possible may come in useful.     DON’T see your loan as a lottery win. Because student loans come in all at once, it might be the largest amount of money …

Act now if you think you’ve been underpaid

Following revelations that 155,000 people were underpaid in the 2020-21 tax year because they weren’t being paid the minimum amount required by law, HMRC has urged workers to check their payslips to make sure they’re not being underpaid. Unsurprisingly, the tax body, which helped Brits get back more than £16 million in underpaid wages in the last tax year, received …