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Welcome to Campaigns Corner!✨ This is the place to post and discuss campaigns linked to MoneySaving. Whether you’re looking to share a personal experience to encourage change, or highlight an area that you think needs discussing, Campaigns Corner is the place for this. In the spirit of the MSE Community, offering any help…
Campaign to end Membership Prices
From Tesco to Prett to AO. All offer one price for non members one to members. Tesco a free membership but forget your club card and you loose the better price. Prett a money subscription gives you "10% off". AO a yearly subscription gives access to better prices. And there is likely more...... Whats worse is they all…
Council Wheelie bins
Council Wheelie bins and containers ! As of Nov 23 we shall be expected to store somewhere on our property up to 6 rubbish/refuse wheelie bins and containers ! This, once I have tried to rearrange things will take up a considerable amount of valuable area on our property. I estimate around 4m2 ! And we may be the lucky…
Talc Claims
Hi - thank you for welcoming me to the Forum. I wonder if anyone has put in a claim for compensation after many years of using J&J Talc. I know in the US some people have been successful with their claims, particularly those using Lanier Law Firm. They are now advertising they are acting for UK claimants, using the legal…
HMRC paying tax refunds to agents instead of individuals - with no warning
I'm horrified to read this article and wonder if it's a cause for a campaign to prevent the issue...?…
MAY 2023 UPDATE : Consultation on parking charge levels & add on fees
During a search online for news on this long awaited consultation I found a letter 17/4/23 from Levelling Up Minister in response to questions Levelling Up Committee had asked re Parking Code of Practice. download it here :…
Turn off the engine, reduce emissions
Dear Forum members, I know that people do care about it in Switzerland, but not in the UK. I often see people who unnecessary idle their engines while waiting, talking, smoking, phoning... I am not sure where to start raising people awareness. I am not a "just stop oil" activist, but let us show that we do care of our…
MSE News: Buy now, pay later regulation shelved by Government, says report
Plans to give buy now, pay later users much-needed new rights and protections should not be scrapped, MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has urged today (Monday 17 July). It comes as a report has emerged that the Government plans to delay the introduction of vital new laws. Read the full story: 'Martin Lewis urges…
SERPS AND DUTY OF CARE
At some point in the 1980's people were given the option to opt out of SERPs.SERPs was a voluntary scheme by which you made additional NI contributions to the state pension.Like many others I was in a company pension and making the SERP additional payment.From 1988 we were allowed to put that additional money into either a…
Is there a current campaign to stop ensured requests for feedback from companies?
I can opt out of newsletter type emails for most companies but get lots of unwanted requests for feedback from companies I've ordered from and from carriers that deliver the parcels, plus requests for reviews for public forums like TrustPilot. Sometimes I receive several reminders before I've even received the item. This…
MSE News: It's time for the Government to free mortgage prisoners trapped paying 8% interest
A landmark new report published today by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) puts forward costed solutions to the horror of the situation facing up to 200,000 mortgage prisoners, who have been trapped on high rates after their loans were sold by the state to 'closed book' inactive lenders. Read the…
Older people, especially with hearing problems having to Phone companies as emails are No reply
I have lost 70% of my hearing am 83, I can hears sounds easily, but having to phone nearly every company now is a big problem have loud Tinnitus, using phones is a nightmare for me, by the time i workout the first words, the rest of the i do not understand , its a farce, have a problem hearing the 4 or 5 options, then…
Cheap but unhealthy footwear.
Because of certain budget footwear I ended up at the doctors and discovered the answer lie in the hidden planned obsolescence in the heel of my shoe. My heel got progressively more painful and I now know what to look out for in a shoe/slipper. If you press down hard on the heel (from the inside) you may well feel some…
DVLA CAR TAX
During this time of monetary pressures is it fair that car tax is paid twice for any given month in full, once by the previous car owners and once by the new keeper regardless of purchase date ? Why is not simply rounded up to the end of the month and then.taken over. I'll tell you why , the government DVLA GET PAID TWICE…
HMRC Charging Excess Tax for State Pensioners
I believe that HMRC are charging excess tax for State Pensioners. Occupational Pensions, and any salaried employment whilst in receipt of pension income, are generally paid monthly and PAYE tax is assessed for each of the 12 x monthly payments (month 1 to month 12). All P60’s from these income sources correctly records the…
Financial Education (part 2)
I have now written a second report on financial education and literacy following a second research survey and having more ideas and finding more information. Hopefully this one will be just as (if not more) successful than the last! http://motorsportcarsandmore.car.blog/2023/06/02/financial-literacy-education-report/
DVLA CAR TAX
During this time of monetary pressures is it fair that car tax is paid twice for any given month in full, once by the previous car owners and once by the new keeper regardless of purchase date ? Why is not simply rounded up to the end of the month and then.taken over. I'll tell you why , the government DVLA GET PAID TWICE…
Our Council tax that pays INTO private pensions
When as a local councilor I was apaulllled at the amount of tax we pay for council staff Private Pensions. We pay 16% of our council into their private pensions. No one paid into my pension. Council tax is for public services...Not for personal greed.
Financial Education in Schools
I’m currently a secondary school student in the UK who has produced a report on financial education in schools which has today been featured in The Times. Obviously financial education is a very pertinent issue on MSE and is something I have become passionate about recently too. What does everyone think?…
Cost of living and profit
I don't know where this belongs, it's a question............I left school at 15 so not as clever as you lot so I have a question..... There is a cost of living crisis because everything is going up so the government is going to raise the interest rate to try to control it. But it's going up because the makers of stuff (or…
Online Safety Bill
Couldn't see any discussion on this. I’d appreciate your thoughts on the online safety bill - specifically the open letter below... https://blog.whatsapp.com/an-open-letter There isn’t a way to change it in just one part of the world so we may end up having WhatsApp blocked.. Some countries have chosen to block it such as…

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NatWest and RBS to close at least 134 branches in 2023/24 – here's the full list, plus alternatives
The NatWest Group will shut at least 143 of its bank branches throughout 2023 and 2024 following its latest announcement.
Bank of Scotland, Halifax and Lloyds to close 35 more branches in 2023/24 – here's the full list, plus alternatives
Bank of Scotland, Halifax and Lloyds, which are all part of the Lloyds Banking Group, have announced they'll close at least 35 more branches between them over the next 12 months.
Martin Lewis: Are you an E.on customer? Here's an easy way to cut what you pay for energy
E.on Next's 'Pledge' tariff could be an easy way to cut your bills over the next year, according to MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis.
Martin Lewis: Urgent warning for savers as base rate held at 5.25%
You should open a fixed savings rate NOW in case rates are cut, MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has warned.
Second cost of living payment to be paid from 31 October – here's who qualifies and how much you'll get
Over eight million households on certain benefits and tax credits will receive their second cost of living payment from 31 October.
E.on Next's Pledge tariff costs £50 less than the Energy Price Cap – should you switch?
E.on Next has launched an energy deal for existing customers that costs around £50 a year (around 3%) less than the Price Cap for typical users, making it one of the cheapest deals available.
Workers aged 18+ could benefit from a hidden pay rise in future as new pension auto-enrolment rules get the go-ahead
Workers aged 18 and above may benefit from a 'hidden' pay rise in future as the Government now has the power to lower the age limit to be automatically enrolled into workplace pensions from 22 to 18.
Find HIDDEN supermarket discounts in the ‘world foods’ section – up to 80% off herbs, spices, tinned goods & more
You know the old saying, 'it's not what you know, it's who you know' – well, the same can be applied to navigating the aisles of your local supermarket – in this instance, 'its not what you shop, but where you shop'. We’ve uncovered baby aisle bargains and how you can save by crouching down . Now we’re unearthing secrets in the ‘world foods’ aisle…
Virgin Media to hike prices by 13.8% for millions of customers – but you can leave penalty-free
Millions of Virgin Media broadband, TV and home phone customers will see their bills increase this spring by an average of 13.8%.

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