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Families due £500m tax-credit refund

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Families due £500m tax-credit refund - Families who were forced give back overpaid tax credits are have up £500m returned them following another blunder by Government 'Sell rent back' exploiting debt-laden - Homeowners facing repossession are being exploited by 'sell rent back' schemes, with Citizens Advice calling for extra protection



Families due £500m tax-credit refund  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Families who were forced to give back overpaid tax credits are to have up to £500m returned to them following another blunder by the Government
'Sell and rent back' exploiting debt-laden  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Homeowners facing repossession are being exploited by 'sell and rent back' schemes, with Citizens Advice calling for extra protection
Market report: Monday latest  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
12.15:Tui Travel made a far-from-bright and sunny debut on the London stock market today, with shares in the package holidays operator opening at a discount
Big retailers 'pay 13p an hour' in India  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Two major British high street retailers have launched inquiries into allegations that workers producing clothes are being exploited
Families due £500m tax-credit refund  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Families who were forced to give back overpaid tax credits are to have up to £500m returned to them following another blunder by the Government
£1m prize for 'first time' Premium Bond  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
A Premium Bond bought just weeks ago has scooped a £1m jackpot at the first attempt in the September draw
BT winning broadband race  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
BT now has more than 4m customers signed up to its broadband service - adding more than 2,000 per day voer the past five years
Happiness is a town called Beverley  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Yorkshire medieval market town Beverley has been named the best value-for-money town in Britain, enjoying an 'affluent lifestyle' at affordable prices
Bank under fire after market turmoil  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
The Bank of England faces mounting pressure to reveal more about its emergency lending after cryptic statements about multi-billion pound loans caused market turmoil
Directors snap up firms' shares  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Directors have given a massive vote of confidence in their companies by snapping up shares at the fastest rate for four-and-a-half years
A to Z of the Sunday newspapers  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Here's our summary of what the Sunday broadsheets are reporting from the world of finance and business
Standard Life back on track  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Insurance giant Standard Life is expected to report better than expected first-half profits this week
Sainsbury's deadlock broken  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
The impasse in the £10.6bn takeover talks for Sainsbury's appears to have been broken with the Qatari-backed Delta Two investors close to an agreement
UK house prices rise at twice Euro average  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
House prices in Britain have risen faster than in any other eurozone country except Spain over the past five years, according to a new report
Postcode plan could cut pension payouts  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
A scheme unveiled by Legal & General will mean lower retirement payments for people in better off areas because they are expected to live longer
Auctions soar as repossessions rise  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
The number of homes going under the hammer at auction has hit the highest level for more than two years following a rapid rise in repossessions
Airport bosses fined £146,000 for delays  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Airports operator BAA has been fined £146,000 for failing passengers at Heathrow and Gatwick during the summer of chaos
Hetherington: Shares con cost £30,000  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Ace investigator Tony Hetherington deals with a shares con that cost a reader almost £30,000 and a cash bond wrongly paid out
How the public paid for prosperity  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
After a ten-year daydream, people have woken up to the fact that the prosperity on which the Government has preened itself has been financed by their own borrowings
Caution needed to beat fraudsters  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Unless my memory serves me incorrectly, writes Financial Mail's personal finance editor, I have never been a customer of NatWest but that didn't stop a dodgy email trying to steal my details
Misinformation causing turmoil  [09/03/2007 01:17 PM]
Speculation and misinformation are deadly enemies of orderly markets, as the mauling experienced by Barclays shows