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Re: Baby steps to mortgage freedom for beanielou.
Hope you are feeling better today. I can't believe my age either.3 -
Re: How far can I ask for the carers allowance to be back dated.
And if you do mean carer’s allowance, because I am also confused by your mention of your son applying for it, you couldn’t have had it while you were working anyway because you would’ve earned too mu…3 -
Re: How far can I ask for the carers allowance to be back dated.
You would have had to to apply for Carer's Allowance (is this what you mean by 'Carer's benefit'?). Not your son. From GOV.UK: "You can backdate your claim by up to 3 months.…1 -
Re: Prolific Academic Survey Alerts
Just done a difficult Video evaluation study. If you have no idea what the 'this is fine' meme is, I suggest you find out as it featured several times and I hadn't got a clue. I'v…1 -
Re: Smart meters are not so smart after all FYI
Yes and this fully explained on their Economy 7 webpage By the way we use British Summer Time in this country not daylight saving time https://www.edfenergy.com/energywise/all-you-need-know-about-eco…4 -
Re: Smart meters are not so smart after all FYI
This has always been the case for anyone on E7. Everyone should routinely manually check their meter for the peak/off-peak switchover times and should never rely on any E7 timing info given by their …3 -
Re: The impact of inflation - yikes!
Just to provide a bit of data for the income vs growth debate. The following table shows the nominal annualised total return from end of 1972 to end of 2025 of the FTSE all-share index together with …2 -
Re: Nutshell car insurance
Its a trading name of Budget Insurance, a very large brokerage and behind several affinity deals for Motor. They position themselves as one step up from bare bones ultra cheap policies but are still …1 -
Re: Klarna has linked another account to my details — advice?
Do a DSAR on Klarna. Wait for the results and take it from there - if the 'debts' are showing on the report start a formal complaint.2 -
Re: Where do I start with solar panels and a battery install?
Varies by region but where I am seems rarely below 20p anyway and do you really want to wait for the next short term dip to charge up?1
