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Social care: cap could prompt insurers to plug nursing home costs gap
Insurance companies withdrew policies more than a decade ago – but they could return under new plansThe cap on the cost of social care could create a new market in insurance to cover nursing home fees – 11 years after the last policy was withdrawn from…
ついにビットコインが法定通貨になったエルサルヴァドル、その熱狂と混乱の舞台裏
中米のエルサルヴァドルで仮想通貨(暗号資産)のビットコインを法定通貨にする法律が2021年9月7日に施行された。国会での法案可決から90日でのスピード導入となったが、斬新だが強権的ともいえる施策に現地では熱狂と混乱、そして疑問と反発が渦巻いている。
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Costa Coffee gives staff 5% pay rise as it looks to recruit 2,000 workers
Increase for 14,500 shop workers comes into effect from 1 OctoberCosta Coffee is increasing pay for its 14,500 shop workers by 5%, as it looks for 2,000 more staff before Christmas.The company, which was bought out by Coca-Cola in 2018, said that from …
Three becomes latest mobile firm to bring back roaming charges
End to almost five years of free roaming across Europe will come into effect from 23 May 2022Three is to reintroduce charges for using their phones when travelling abroad, ending almost five years of free mobile phone roaming across Europe for their cu…
Archbishop of Canterbury criticises social care tax rise
Justin Welby says favouring wealthy pensioners over young and poor not a ‘people-centred policy’Boris Johnson’s plan to increase national insurance contributions to raise £12bn for the NHS and social care could pose a “serious problem” for low-income w…
Suddenly, my 94-year-old great aunt must leave her care home
It’s being closed for refurbishment and now we have to search for a new place in a pandemicMy 94-year-old great-aunt, along with other residents, has been given six weeks to leave her care home, the Peele in Wythenshawe, which is closing for refurbishm…
みずほ銀行で今年7度目の障害
みずほ銀行で8日午前に100台ほどのATMやインターネットバンキングが利用できなくなるトラブルが起きたそうだ。不具合は午前9時20分頃から発生、一部のATMおよびみずほダイレクト等が利用不能になったとしている。このうち、27台のATMで操作中に現金が引き出せなくなる状態になったという。原因はハードウェアの不具合とされ、午前10時半までに復旧したとしている(NHK、日経新聞、みずほダイレクト)。
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UK’s Marshmallow raises $85M on a $1.25B valuation for its more inclusive, big-data take on car insurance
Marshmallow — a U.K.-based car insurance provider that has made a name for itself in the market by providing a new approach to car insurance aimed at using a wider set of data points and clever algorithms to net a more diverse set of customers and provide more competitive rates — is announcing a milestone […]
‘It’s unfair’: Stoke-on-Trent voters see social care tax rise as unjust but necessary
People in the newly Tory seat react to the national insurance hike with a mix of realism and resentment at the effect on the low-paidIn the former red wall seat of Stoke-on-Trent Central, which the Conservatives won for the first time in 2019 with a ma…