When a pension doesn’t stretch as far as it used to
Retirement is often seen as a time when life should become a little more predictable. Your working life is over, you know roughly what income you have coming in, and […]
What do the Retirement Living Standards mean?
When you’re thinking about how much money you might need in retirement, it can be difficult to know what a “comfortable” or even a “minimum” income actually means in practice. […]
What does a decent retirement cost?
When we think about retirement, it’s natural to think about how much pension income we have coming in each month. But there’s another question that matters just as much: how […]
Pensioners paying the price of freeze
Frozen income tax thresholds are having a growing impact on UK pensioners, dragging millions into the tax system through “fiscal drag”. Although tax rates themselves have not risen, the personal […]
Campaign Focus: Reducing Tax
Throughout the year we will be sharing information on our campaign focus areas. Those topics we feel strongly about and are fighting for on behalf of our members. This month […]
Campaign Focus: Transport
Throughout the year we will be sharing information on our campaign focus areas. Those topics we feel strongly about and are fighting for on behalf of our members. This month […]
Campaign Focus: Digital Exclusion – it’s more than just banks
We have been discussing digital exclusion this month and the impact the digitalisation of services is having on society. The transition to digital services is not limited to the banking […]
Campaign Focus: Digital Exclusion
Over the course of the year we have been sharing information on our key focus and campaign areas. Now it’s the turn of all things digital, and how the digitilisation […]
Banking hubs
The figures are stark. More than 5,000 bank and building society branches have closed in the UK since January 2015, according to Which? And another 206 are due to close […]
Campaign Focus: Better planning
Throughout the year we will be sharing information on our campaign focus areas. Those topics we feel strongly about and are fighting for on behalf of our members. This month […]