Here are the latest ways scammers – just this week – are trying to steal our money. Be aware, don’t trust emails, and don’t give banking details to others. Scams are not like they were when the internet first started. You’d get an email telling you the king of some country wanted to give you… more

If you are at high risk from coronavirus and are shielding, and have little or no support, you can get help to get food and medicine delivered. If you’re not able to leave the house because you’re shielding, and you’re not able to get food from the supermarkets (can anyone even get a delivery?!), then… more

The deadline to complete Self-Assessment return to HMRC is on 31 January. But what can you do if you can’t afford to pay your tax bill? There are around 5.4 million self-employed people who have less than a month to complete their tax return by the deadline. In total, some 12.1 million tax returns are… more

Here’s exactly how you can get 53 days of holiday this year by only booking 23 days of annual leave at work. As standard, most people are entitled to 20 days annual leave a year, plus 8 days of bank holidays as full-time workers. Trying to maximise the time off work is a tight balancing… more

These days, your data is like gold dust, and you need to do everything you can to ensure that it is properly protected. Whether you run a business or you just want to protect your personal files, it is worthwhile doing everything that you can to ensure that everything is inaccessible to hackers and unlikely… more

The energy company, E.ON, has collected millions of direct debit payment from customers days ahead of when they were due. In an IT error, payments that were due to be paid from 25th December through until 5th January 2021, were taken on 24th December, leaving millions short of cash. With no warning, customers were not… more