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When my parents bought their first house in the late 1950s, mortgages were difficult to get. In those days you could get them from the...

These were Endowment Mortgages. The only guarantees were that whoever sold them, be it bank, broker, financial adviser, received a very...

I remember those days. I had a business loan/mortgage at the time and was royally ripped off by the bank. I ended up having to pay 19%...

I had a colleague who left his IT job to sell endowment mortgages!

Endowment mortgages,we had one as we were told that, at the time, it was the only way we would get a mortgage. We were told that we may...

I will say about the Winter Fuel Payment. A friend and her partner have always received it. He has a very large work pension she did...

A prime minister, even if for only a few days eg Liz Truss, will get a HUGE pension, and personal protection for the rest of theit lives.

Older pensioners, the majority of whom started work several years in age before today's youngsters, were led to believe that their NI...

Those receiving pension credit will have the winter fuel allowance. Martin Lewis urges constantly for pensioners to look at applying for...

I read comments on forums and on tabloids and last year the outrage at pensioners still getting the triple lock on their pensions. Yes...

The problem with this is that those older and more vulnerable pensioners who are also receiving small works pensions which are being...

I get a civil service pension, but it is only £73 a month. Left the Passport Office for another job I thought would be better but...

I will not be getting the Fuel payment now but I cannot say it will be a problem.I never considered myself as being over careful with...

Mr CC will lose the winter fuel payment and now he will also pay tax on his pensions as although they all went up (state and 2 works...

I did a little survey within my own family/friends who are pensioners and not one of them qualified for pension credit. It would seem...