My lockdown pay cut takes my salary down a tax bracket: Do I need to check I’m not being taxed too much or will PAYE automatically adjust? By Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 15:43 BST, 2 June 2020 | Updated: 15:43 BST, 2 June 2020 I was on £52,000 a year before coronavirus but we were asked to … Read more
Losing 3 stone each in 2012 probably saved their lives. Now, as statistics reveal a higher mortality rate from coronavirus for those who are obese or have type 2 diabetes, Hairy Bikers Si King and Dave Myers reveal how their new cookbook may help save yours . . . Vegetables really are the dieter’s best friend. They’re … Read more
Police will visit passengers’ HOMES to check they are complying with new 14-day coronavirus quarantine after arriving back in UK under plans unveiled today MPs will be asked to usher through laws to bolster police’s ability to enforce rule Powers will allow constables to impose £1,000 fines on those who breach order Officers will also … Read more
Jesy Nelson has admitted that she used to wake up at 6:30am to check Twitter for negative comments and cancelled shows as she couldn’t ‘bear people looking at her’. The Little Mix star, 28, bravely spoke about her trolling ordeal in her 2019 BBC documentary Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out, which has since won multiple awards. Jesy … Read more
Culture vultures! Zoo penguins check out the art at a locked-down museum (and it turns out they prefer Caravaggio to Monet) Three Humboldt penguins visited the empty Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art The Kansas City Zoo birds missed seeing visitors and were taken on a day out The birds were said to prefer Italian artiest Caravaggio … Read more
The eight-hour airport check: Testing booths, tracking bracelets and an interminable wait before you can get the all-clear to enter the country… how Hong Kong is screening all arrivals to keep a lid on coronavirus Photographer records eight hour ordeal as she travels via airport into Hong Kong Laurel Chor, 30, was given a tracking … Read more
Married women who fear they are being underpaid state pension can use new tool to check their record State pension scandal: Underpayments tot up to £35k-plus in our probe to date The DWP has refused to confirm whether a full, systematic review is under way Are you being underpaid? Steve Webb and his firm LCP … Read more
The thorny subject of tax will be at the forefront of Government policy for years to come once Britain’s lockdown restrictions are lifted and the pandemic subsides. Taxpayers will be left bearing the brunt of the economic fallout from Covid-19, which has seen mass pay cuts, job losses, furloughing and vast loans dished out to … Read more
Savers who signed up to top easy-access deals as little as six months ago are finding the rates paid on their savings slashed as banks make cuts to their back books. While the best on-sale easy-access rate has fallen by 0.11 percentage points over the last month, challenger banks and building societies which pay the … Read more
Sports Direct and Harveys have been accused of claiming money from the taxpayer while secretly sending furloughed employees into work. Senior managers have set up private Whatsapp groups where they order staff members to visit shuttered stores and clear shelves, so stock can be sent back to the distribution centre for sale online. Some managers … Read more