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Over 50s MoneySaving
Archives for December 2013
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Computer language.
This computer talk is driving me nuts.:j Memory was something you lost with age. An application was something you completed when looking for a job. A programme was a TV show. A cursor was someone who used foul language. A keyboard was a piano. A web was a spider’s home. A virus was the Flu. A CD was something written on…
Equity release for elderly parent care
Long story so will keep the question short! Parents live in a house worth c£500,000. Father has dementia and now mother very frail following stroke. Need to get 24/7 carers to live in and possibly convert upstairs into a flat. Can we release equity to pay for their care until they die? We are four siblings and this is…
what to write on a christmas card
My SiL has just lost a nephew under in exceptional circumstances and very sudden, I am not sure what to put on her Christmas card. I do not normally send Christmas card to them but have spoken to her many times recently due to other illness in the family. Not even sure that I should send a Christmas card. Any help please.…
Urgent : Gift aid
A note to everyone! A friend was persuaded last year to sign up to gift aid by several local charity shops as she was clearing her house and donating a lot of books and clothes in their stores. Thinking she paid tax, as tax debits showed up on her various share dividends she signed up for several charity shops as being a…
Telephone Con?
On Friday I took a telephone call from a David Wilson, he asked for me personally and said he was working for Tulip Communications. The number he called from was 0030157256231204. He said he was just confirming my recent request to stop all unsolicited calls and that £47 would be taken from my card account shortly and that…
Mortgage ending. Cannot pay the balance
Hi, I have a friend who has a house where he has lived for many years. When his mother died he inherited a half share but in order to remain in the house he had to buy his sibling's share. He took out a mortgage with the Woolwich. There is still £60k outstanding. The house is worth about £170k. The mortgage is to be repaid…
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