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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…

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

Downing Street indicated any new announcement could have to wait until August - when Ofgem is expected to announce another hike in the energy bills price cap on October 1

“He was born here, brought up here and lived the majority of his life here. He’s paid his taxes in the UK, his National Insurance, and he’s never claimed benefits. To then return to Manchester and be told ‘we’re sorry but we can’t help you’ is awful."