West Yorkshire worker says rises have cut his savings and he might need to leave the UK to start a family1.9m UK homes lose supplier after two more gas firms go bustJoshua Wheeler-Gaunt, 33, is one of a growing number of people worried about rising ene…
UK pensions shortfall is ‘tip of the iceberg’, says former minister
Steve Webb says IT and human errors are systemic and may also affect tax credits and universal creditThe pension underpayment scandal could be the tip of the iceberg affecting many thousands more people, according to the former pensions minister Sir St…
Fraud victim scammed for almost £25,000: ‘They had detailed information’
Merrick Anderson was called by someone posing as a member of Lloyds Bank’s fraud departmentFraud in UK at level where it ‘poses national security threat’Merrick Anderson lost almost £25,000 through an authorised push payment fraud in March.The universi…
Fraud in UK at level where it ‘poses national security threat’
UK Finance says £754m stolen from bank customers in first half of 2021 as scammers capitalised on CovidCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFraud in the UK has risen to a level where it poses a “national security threat”, accordi…
How have you been affected by UK state pension underpayments?
We would like to hear from those who receive a state pension and have been underpaid A spending watchdog has said more than £1bn-worth of UK state pensions has been underpaid due to repeated human errors and outdated IT systems. Those who are affected …
UK pensioners short-changed by more than £1bn, says watchdog
Human error and outdated IT contributed to underpayments, with most affected likely to be womenMore than £1bn-worth of UK state pensions has been underpaid due to repeated human errors that were almost inevitable amid complex rules and outdated IT sys…
My vulnerable father’s struggle to return a faulty John Lewis TV
He has partial sight and limited mobility, but couldn’t get helpMy parents, in their 90s with limited mobility and partial sight, ordered a television from their local John Lewis store and paid for delivery and installation. Two days after installation…
Whether it’s homes or jobs, our dreams are moving further out of reach every year | Mark Blyth
From the warped housing market to the ‘knowledge economy’, the system increasingly works only for the uber-wealthyI travelled to New York City in August for the first time since the pandemic began, to visit friends who had just bought their first home….
みずほ銀行のシステムを金融庁が直接管理へ。異例の行政処分に
金融庁はみずほフィナンシャルグループおよびみずほ銀行に対して「管理命令」という異例の行政処分を発動する方針を取るそうだ。度重なるシステム障害を受けたもので、金融庁とみずほが共同で危機対応チームをつくり、金融庁の管理下でシステムを運営することを命じる。こうした行政処分は今回が初めて。日経新聞によれば、金融庁が21日にみずほ銀行に対して行政処分の方針を伝えたとしている。運用状況次第で運営体制の見直しも命じるとのこと。年内いっぱいかけてシステム改修に集中する方針であるとしている（日経新聞、テレ東BIZ[動…
Ladbrokes owner bet big that it was undervalued. It won … big
Liberalisation of US gambling law is fuelling a wave of buyouts of more tech-savvy UK betting firmsThe stock market bargain during the wild pandemic trading of March 2020, it turns out, was the owner of antique betting chains Ladbrokes and Coral. In th…