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The UK cost of living help package has been announced by Rishi Sunak, with pensioners getting an extra winter fuel payment and £400 of support for all householders rich or poor. Here's your month-by-month guide

My former department, the Treasury, usually does the right thing. But (as Winston Churchill probably didn’t say) only after trying everything else first. That’s the bottom line about the package of support the Chancellor announced today. In his February announcement, Rishi Sunak combined gimmicks (an energy bill “discount” that was…

According to tax experts, thousands could be owed money

People who have never applied for a refund can backdate a tax claim for four years - and you could be owed back thousands of pounds. The UK tax year starts on April 6 each year and ends on April 5 the following year

If you are living with any of these musculoskeletal conditions you may be eligible for PIP.

There are several things many people can look into

The Money Saving Expert says it involves buying extra National Insurance (NI) years to boost your state pension

The DWP error is linked to married and or widowed people, and those over the age of 80, who wrongly didn’t have their state pension automatically topped up when they should have

You normally need to have 35 years’ worth of qualifying National Insurance contributions to get the full new state pension - but Martin Lewis has explained a way to top up your entitlement

New State Pension figures show 1.5 million older women are receiving less than £100 each week.

Damning House of Commons Library analysis finds inflation, DWP Universal Credit and National Insurance and tax changes will leave a single parent-of-two £1,214 worse off - which is what they take home after tax in a month