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latest Personal Finance press releases

• Help new parents understand family money

  Personal Finance

  The news that family finance information packs from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) are to be distributed by midwives to soon-to-be parents, has today been welcomed by The Children's Mutual (http://www.thechildrensmutual.co.uk).
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  Give credit to your teenagers - it's likely they'll turn it down

  Credit : Teenagers

  A report for The Children's Mutual suggests that Britain 's teenagers are far more responsible with money than parents think.

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  More homeowners depend on debt management

  Debt

  In today’s stormy economic climate, more and more homeowners are seeing debt management as the best way to tackle rising mortgage payments and rising debt payments at the same time.

• Fairinvestment.co.uk chooses to support microfinance charity Five Talents

  Loans : Charity

  Fair Investment, an organisation with an established strong ethic for donating to charity, has chosen to support Five Talents in helping people to help themselves out of poverty through the provision of microfinance.
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  Child Trust Fund Budget News

  Children and Family : Savings

  From April 2009, parents will no longer have to physically send their child's CTF voucher to a provider in order to open a new account.

• first time buyers are scarce - raise stamp duty threshold says propertyfinder.com

  Property Sale : Tax

  Nicholas Leeming, major client director of propertyfinder.com, commented on today’s CML figures showing first time buyers are struggling and calls for the stamp duty threshold to be raised

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  New Government research strengthens case for flexible approach to retirement

  Retirement : Pensions

  New Government research strengthens case for flexible approach to retirement

• Government in court for Judicial Review over cap on GPs' pensions

  Pensions : Doctor

  A Judicial Review sought by the British Medical Association to challenge the government’s decision to cap the pensions of GPs will take place in the High Court, London, on Wednesday and Thursday this week (12th and 13th March 2008).

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  The Co-operative Bank relaunches its unique fixed rate platinum credit card

  Credit Card

  The Co-operative Bank has relaunched its unique fixed rate platinum credit card, with a highly competitive five-year fixed rate of 9.9% APR.

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  More than half of credit card customers pay zero interest, Fairinvestment.co.uk has found

  Credit Card

  More than half of credit card customers pay off their credit card balance in full each month, thereby reaping the benefits of paying by credit card whilst avoiding paying any interest, according to new research from Fairinvestment.co.uk.

• CARD-NOT-PRESENT FRAUD UP - SO USE CASH TO BUY ONLINE

  Credit Card

  Despite the credit card issuers' best endeavours to provide greater security, the figures released today by APACS on the rising level of credit card fraud show that when it comes to online sales, consumers are right to be concerned.

• DELAY POSSIBLE FOR CAPITAL GAINS TAX REFORM

  CGT (Capital Gains Tax)

  Stuart Law, Chief Executive of Assetz, predicts the Chancellor could well announce a delay for proposed capital gains tax reforms in next week’s budget: