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Pocket Money: Financial Lesson for Kids
It’s an age old problem for parents – how to handle pocket money for their kids. How much should you give them? How often? What should they spend it on? All these questions have troubled parents for generations.
Is being self-employed the right thing for you?
As well as being viable from a business perspective, it’s also crucial
that setting up a company is appropriate for your personal needs. It’s
a huge commitment that will require a lot of hard work, so you need to
be sure that you’re up to it and that your lifestyle can support it.
Government benefits – helping you in retirement
Unless you’ve managed to build up a large private pension or have a great deal of savings, it’s not always easy to get by in retirement when you’re no longer earning. There are various ways in which the government can help give people of pension age enough money to live on – here’s a concise guide to some of the main benefits.
Government benefits – bringing up a family
There’s a wide range of government benefits to support you as you bring up your family if you’re on a low income and need assistance. This is a brief guide to some of the key benefits that you may be eligible to receive.
Gas guzzlers: the cost of running a car today
We’re a nation of car users – although not always by choice. Expensive and unreliable public transport systems have forced many of us onto the roads, but having a car certainly isn’t a cheap alternative. The cost of owning a car, even if you don’t use it much, is very expensive.