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Tag: budgeting

Dad budgeting with child
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Budgeting for Peace of Mind

24/04/202512/05/2025 - by Quids In Staff - Leave a Comment

As Mental Health Awareness Week kicks off, experts warn that financial stress is still wrecking lives — so how can budgeting help? Mention the word budget and many of us …

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confused woman
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10 ‘Secrets’ About Universal Credit

13/11/202413/11/2024 - by Anna Reynolds - Leave a Comment

Within the next few years, all working age benefit claimants will be on Universal Credit. It’s quite different, so comes with a few surprises… Millions have struggled with the Universal …

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Young Married Couple With Many Debts Doing Paperwork Together
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Your Stress-Free Guide to Budgeting: Creating a Plan That Works

02/04/202429/04/2024 - by Madeleine Caravaggio - Leave a Comment

As we move into a new financial year, now is as good a time as any to take a look at our budget – and what better way than with …

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Woman taking pound coin from purse
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Shift from cash payments causing problems, study shows

27/04/2023 - by Sarah Reid - Leave a Comment

As cash payments are phased out across society more than half of us have recently been somewhere that won’t accept cash

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Couple with a phone and credit card
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Don’t blow the cost-of-living payment!

05/08/2022 - by Sarah Reid - Leave a Comment

We’re going to be faced with even higher energy costs in autumn and the £650 cost-of-living payment is meant to help us pay the bills

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How to talk to kids when money is tight

01/07/2022 - by Sarah Reid - Leave a Comment

It’s tough telling our kids they can’t have the things they want because money is tight. But there are ways to help them understand

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How to cut household bills

01/05/2022 - by Sarah Reid - Leave a Comment

As energy bills are rocketing it makes sense to look at how to cut other household bills to help cushion the blow

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Inflation – what’s it all about?

01/03/2022 - by Sarah Reid - Leave a Comment

Inflation’s been all over the news after Jack Monroe’s campaign to get a truer picture of price rises. We explain what it’s all about

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Another big rise in energy bills

03/02/2022 - by Sarah Reid - Leave a Comment

The price cap has gone up again meaning our energy bills will rise by around £700 a year from April. We explain what’s going on

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New rules make renewing insurance cheaper

27/01/2022 - by Sarah Reid - Leave a Comment

Insurance firms can no longer charge us more than new customers for renewing automatically thanks to new rules

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Supermarket Iceland offers shopping loans

27/01/2022 - by Sarah Reid - Leave a Comment

Supermarket chain Iceland is offering low-cost loans to help us when we’re struggling to pay for our shopping

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Woman with credit card bills
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Plastic not so fantastic

24/12/2021 - by Sarah Reid - Leave a Comment

Credit card interest rates are at their highest levels for 23 years

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