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Self Employed Covid-19 Help
Morning All, im looking for some help/guidance regarding support for Self Employed and hoping this forum will give me some much needed insight.... I have been extremely affected by Covid-19 as I'm sure many have, i recently (June 2019) became self employed as a Sales Consultant for bars and restaurants, as you can imagine…
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Cancelled return flight from UAE
My husband and I have been stuck in Dubai since lockdown began, fortunately we are staying with our daughters so no financial strain there. I had downloaded the BA app so I didn't have to keep logging into the website and right up until 24 hours before, it showed that our flight was still going ahead on 28th March, it was…
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Can my employer enforce short-time working & pay off 80%?
I work for a university who are likely to require all employees to short-time work (e.g. work 80% of hours for 80% pay) for the next year due to reduced income due to COVID-19. They have not furloughed any academic staff. Can they enforce this and what rights do employees have to refuse? How will this affect pensions and…
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Disney world holiday amended - where do we stand with TUI?
I have a holiday to Walt Disney World booked for 11 September for 3 weeks. We had free dining as part of the package but to qualify we had to pay for the more expensive hotels and rooms. Disney has been in touch to say part of its reopening measures is to cancel all dining plans. There are various reports that they have…
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Furlough Help
Hi, i was wondering if anyone can help me with a furlough question that i have? I work for a community centre that was forced to close during lockdown and all staff were placed on furlough in April. It was announced today that we can reopen as of the 4th July however we cannot operate at a 100% as many of the things we do…
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Help needed with holiday rental deposit refund.
Hello. I'm a new member and hope I can get some help with getting my deposit back. Here's the story so far My wife and I booked a holiday home rental in England for 3 weeks in September and paid £2,000 deposit with the balance of £4,000.00 due 4 weeks before moving in. Yes. It's expensive but it's a beautiful house and my…
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flight cancelled event isnt
So we have booked to go to Ibiza and pre-booked Ocean beach. So our outbound flight is cancelled but our booking with ocean beach obviously isn't or is our return flight with a different airline. can we claim from our travel insurance? Ocean beach has a no refund policy?
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Furlough pay paid wrong?
My husband was furloughed from the end of march as he works hospitality. His last pay prior to his furlough was 30th March. He was subsequently paid 80% of his usual salary in the 12th May and 8th June. The next pay should theoretically be the 6th July... But he is usually paid every 28 days which means he should have been…
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Furlough Leave and sick leave....
So I’m due to have a surgical procedure next week. I am on furlough and have been for 3 months but my workplace is getting ready to open back up in July. Though not all staff will be back yet. Just wondering how it works if I get a drs note after surgery. Would I need to send this in and move to sick pay, which at £94 a…
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Holiday Cottage Dilemma
so, booked a holiday cottage for two weeks in August. looks like the accomodation will be opening back up but none of the facilities, especially the indoor heated pool are likely to be available. booked direct and company that owns the property have indicated there is no prospect of rebooking and / or refund. clearly…
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Third party refund
Booked with travel up they are charging us £29.50pp to give us our 100% refund of virgin how is this fair, virgin have cancelled the flights on us, can we do anything?
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Lloyds Bounce back loan isdue
Hi after some help. Im a halifax personal customer and I've applied with lloyds for a bounce back loan. I get to state 4 of the online application and it says it doesn't recognise my email or mobile number. Have tried to get assistance from lloyds but getting nowhere and still waiting for the online application team to…
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Epic Events - won't refund and only offer credit
Hi All :) I've been trying to get money from various cycling events companies who cancelled cycling events understandably due to covid. Epic Events are offering a credit note but are refusing to offer a refund. The other companies have agreed government guidance suggests there should be a cash option, but I've had no luck…
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Gift cards
I'm not in a great position. Moved 2 days before lockdown. A charity gave me gift cards from one4all. So I could buy a spare bed and bedroom furniture. I have mental health problem so my son would come up and stay with me so I can get out and about. So I've had to do without my son. In a new town. Cant go to a store to…
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Forlough
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School trip rescheduled due to covid
Hi, advise please, my daughters school trip to Auschwitz was cancelled from September to March 2021 by her school due to covid, they’ve said if she doesn’t go we will loose our £250. Deposit, if we choose to go ahead it will cost in addition to the remaining balance an additional £160. ... they’ve done this without prior…
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easyJet September flights
This sort of question has probably been covered to death on here already so sorry for the repeat. Wife and I were both due to fly to Zakynthos in September but given that we're both "high risk" we've today made the final decision not to go whatever the authorities allow by then. One reason being we stay in small family run…
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Car lease agreement after the deferral payment plan
Hi, I have been leasing my current car with Audi for past 2 years without any missed payments. I have now requested a deferral payment plan which Audi have agreed. I have received a new agreement which commences after 3 months deferral payment plan nevertheless with increase in monthly payment, increase in interest rate…
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I take out a new train season ticket loan and invest it?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... I usually get the train to work, paid for with an interest-free season-ticket loan from my employer. I'll soon be able to claim a new loan, though due to the pandemic I'm working from home and there's no word yet on when we'll be returning to the office. As I'm used to the…
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Still locked down due to shielding - UK holiday rights
My partner has been shielding and we have just received a letter today to say that the government advice is that the restrictions for him will be lifted completely on 1 August - not the end of June as we had originally believed. We have a UK cottage holiday (Cornish Horizons) booked for the w/c 25 July. I have emailed them…
