Before anyone can be allocated funding for their care, an assessment must be carried out by a team of medical experts employed by the health authority. A national framework, which was revised six months ago, is supposed to ensure uniformity. There are 12 tests, known collectively as the decision support tool. On [...]
My wife says this is not the case. Which of us is right? T.D., Leeds
Simon Moon from This is Money replies: Lottery winnings are not regarded as income by HM Revenue & Customs so there is no income tax to pay even on the £56.5m collected by recent Euromillions winner [...]
Figures published earlier this month indicate that there are 2.8m workers who have been put on short-time working or have had their overtime cut, and many are trying to make up the shortfall.
Kate Philip, a chartered financial planner with adviser Independent Women in Edinburgh, says: 'We are seeing more clients with [...]
Listed below are the ten areas with the highest proportion of uninsured driver convictions. With uninsured driver accidents becoming an increasingly big problem for both motorists and insurers, price comparison website Moneysupermarket.com analysed almost 3 million car insurance quotes over a year and identified the places with the highest convictions. [...]
Many people have this question whether they should or should not go to a debt attorney for resolving their debt related problems. If it is regarding credit card debts or payday loans, the query becomes all the more puzzling! People often get scared with the thought of an attorney, legal laws and the court.
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He is 83, does not drive in Glasgow, does not even know where the car park is, and uses his bus pass to get into the city, should he need to. Trading Standards advised him to write to DVLA to inform it in case his licence plate had been cloned. Now, NCP is threatening [...]
Based in Yeovil, Somerset, with offices in Leeds and London, CHT has around 3,000 customers, and in 2008 made a tiny pre-tax profit of £450,000.
So why did Virgin buy such small fry?
It's a springboard for bigger things. Virgin will be granted the prize it is after - a banking licence ' as soon as [...]
Council traffic wardens are exploiting a legal loophole to penalise motorists who have paid but simply forgot to remove a previous stub from their dashboard or window.
If wardens, or parking attendants, can see more than one ticket, they can fine the motorist.
Yesterday critics accused greedy council chiefs of seizing on 'pernicious' technicalities to punish [...]
They could be stranded abroad or lose their holiday, but have no claim for compensation.
In the past two years, more than 60 airlines and travel companies have failed, leaving thousands of holidaymakers' plans in jeopardy.
More than a third of summer holidays are booked in January and February, but consumer legislation covering them [...]
More than 56,000 voters ' around a quarter of all voters in Iceland - have signed a petition asking their president to veto a bill on repaying the money, which the Government paid to 200,000 British savers who suffered when the Icesave online bank collapsed.
InDefence, the group which gathered the signatures, said the Icesave [...]
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