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

emmybee

A schoolteacher I know has three CRB certificates: one as a schoolteacher, one as a youth club leader and one as a Brownie leader. WHY? One CRB check should suffice, thereby cutting down on unnecessary expenses. SOMEONE is making a lot of money out of this ridiculous situation!

Mikey7911

In order for banks to be approved for the FSA Bank Deposits Guarantee scheme, they should restrict individual bonuses to the deposit guarantee amount. To pay higher bonuses, they could pay additional premiums to increase the deposit guarantee amount (dependent upon risk).

geoffhodge

If you need to care for a family member instead of working, you receive £53.90 /week, that’s 32p /hour and places a carer under tremendous stress. If carer’s can’t continue, the government must pay £100,000s /year for professional care. Increase this to a realistic amount so we can continue, rather than the government having to take on this expense.

Pizzabutt

Companies printed adverts grab your attention with large colourful text but they aren't so keen on you knowing what the terms and conditions are so the text of t's & c's is much much smaller than the rest. The text of t's & c's should be the same size as the main body of text/special offers, headlines can be bigger. T's & c's are just as important as the other "sexy" bits of the offer.

roosterza

Rail fares are extortionate and keep escalating (allegedly to enable repairs/upgrades to services). These upgrades/repairs are seldom seen, but fares keep rising. Rail companies should be made to price fares competitively against other means of transport, so that travelling green is not solely possible for the wealthy.

samreader

No public service salary greater than the prime minister (150K) and no public service pension greater than 50K.

sandonian

Looking for the best deal, it is difficult to accurately compare energy tariffs when each company has different start dates for their 'quarters'. If these were regularised (e.g. Jan 1 - Mar 31, April 1 - Jun 30, Jul 1 - Sep 30, Oct1 - Dec 31) EVERYONE would be able to 'go compare' with ease.

Pizzabutt

JC* wrote: »

There should be NO unemployment in our society!

Number of people in employment can be increased in a very easy way by:

1. 1. Creating more part time jobs
2. 2. Creating more job share posts
3. 3. Creating jobs for full time parents!!

• a) parents who can not afford child minders should be able to get a jobs on term time only basis!
• b) jobs for parents have to be flexible i.e. employers need to be willing to employ more people on casual basis and there should be a whole community of people willing to work and willing to be contacted should an employer need urgent cover. It could be done in number of ways: email, SMS, phonecall etc.
• c) this type of jobs would attract all sorts of employees and could be split between three people: 1-morning staff, 2-school time staff, 3-afternoon staff. This would create more people being employed and more people happy with their lives. Job element in anybody's life is so important like "bread and water" and should never be a problem in well developed country like Great Britain!

Jobs for parents on casual basis are very important to create a healthy society and it still has not been addressed by any of the politicians well.
It has to have a national coverage for 100% of willing to work parents, should not reduce significantly any social benefits but it should make such a difference that unwilling to work parents would be worst off.

Jobs for full time parents is a missing link for creating healthy physically, mentally and spiritually society and politicians who ignore importance of it should be fined and sent to prison instead of
- parents who can not afford child minders and are forced to work long hours to the detriment of their family life
- parents with kids that are not being supervised properly who in the absence of parents get up to all sorts of mischief and later in life are just at the rock bottom of the society.

It is really high time to stop what is the primary cause of all sorts of evil in our society.
All people have to work, some will do it for free but some can not afford to.
However all people can work shorter hours not longer!! or all can work part time to be able to take care of what really is vitally important for the good of whole society.
- Well balanced kids
- Well balanced parents
- Well balanced citizens

To achieve this politicians have to look closer into Maslov's hierarchy of needs and much closer into the aspect of work/life balance and dangers of not having it!

JC*

What don't you understand about "50 words or thereabouts" ?

KGfromKent

For example:

5p per litre
off
petrol
you pay £1.15.

A law that ensures that if any pricing information is included in an ad then the price you pay MUST be shown, and shown in a larger font than that of the discount, would put an end to this eyecatching but misleading form of advertising.

Osirls

Automatic duty on parcels incoming from abroad isn't fair.
For receiving parcels, even containing items not due VAT, automatically get levied with the VAT fee PLUS a non-returnable Parcel Force fee of £8 for handling based on the estimated value of the item.
Because the service has been outsourced, there is less control and that fee from parcel force cannot be return because they are only carrying out their duty specified by UK Customs.
No to selling off public services to private, *PROFIT* motivated companies!!