Improve Money Rules In 50 Words. Suggest easy changes for our politicians

Mandy1968

Hi,
I have noticed that if you are a family with two adults and two children, you get penalised by the tax credits system. If you are a one parent family with one adult and three children you are better off than if there are two adults and two children in the family, even though there are still four people in the household. Also, for every extra child in the family, you get about £50 per child more per week, whilst the extra expense for the extra adult is not taken into account. I find this totally unfair for 2 parent families, who have only two children.

John_Cromarty

Companies frequently double bill and overcharge customers and receive overpayments. They should be obliged to refund the overpayments. Currently they keep overpayments and then 'write back or write off' the credits on the account at financial year end. The excuse used is to 'mitigate' losses from insolvency.

chrispaget

PENSIONS FOR COUNCIL EXECUTIVES

The pension scheme rules need to be changed to ensure that senior council executives cannot 'design' their redundancies at an age when their pension will be made up to the full rate, normally 55 I believe.

Squeakybrain

Break the law, get sent to jail and you get everything for free, TV license, council tax and other basic commodities. Don’t break the law and you must pay for everything.
Charge prisoners the same; though defer payment until they are released.

oueyouey

People who receive mobility cars should have the choice of standard basic cars, suitable for their needs and not BMW's, Mercedes, Audi's etc.

flamingo6

If it was mandatory for all drivers to display a "car insurance disc" as proof of being insured surely it would reduce the number of uninsured drivers on the road and make them easier to detect. Insurance companies and insured drivers would gain. Wardens and the public could report offenders.

TonySharp1803

Banks rip off everyone by making it as difficult as possible to find out what interest you are paying/receiving on your account.
Make it a law that everytime they tell you what the balance on your account is, by paper communication or e-communication, they should simultaneously tell you what interest you are receiving/paying on that account. It would be no problem for them to program their computers to do this automatically

killinchy55

When you buy something in a shop at e.g £19.99, the cashier asks do you want the penny or is it a Charity Penny? If so, the cashier hits a specially designated button on the till and the money is notched up to a central charity fund raising £££££££££££:rotfl:

Uffa7

How is the decision made to exempt certain people with chronic illnesses from paying prescription charges, but not others? Having an uncurable chronic illness I've had to purchase copious amount of medicine over the last 25 years and it has cost a small fortune to date as a result. Fair?

Cazzkins

Building Societies are non-profit making mutual organisations. Branches are being closed, not through lack of customers or low transaction levels but because they do not generate sufficient commission from the sale of loans, mortgages and insurances: savings accounts do not count :mad: Pressure should be applied to prevent this continuing.