A food guru has shared 10 tips that could cut your shopping bills in half – including always looking at the lowest placed items on a shelf, avoiding the bigger trolleys and investing more in the frozen food aisle. Personal finance expert Lynn Beattie – also known as Mrs Mummypenny – is recognised for her […]
The disability charity Sense, has announced that it will provide emergency financial support to disabled households, in response to its latest research, published today, that shows the impact of the worsening cost-of-living crisis on disabled people. More than four in five (83 per cent) of disabled people in Northern Ireland say that their financial situation
From April 2021 to March 2022, the service’s trained counsellors delivered 1,242 counselling sessions to children with worries about the world compared to 889 from the same period in 2018/19. This is an issue affecting children of all ages, however, the service has seen a particular uplift in counselling sessions with under 11s, up 38%
Asda has become the first UK supermarket to change all of its own brand toilet rolls to double length in a move which will see it remove 74 tonnes of plastic and save 760 tonnes of cardboard a year. The supermarket has doubled the amount of toilet paper per roll and reduced the number of
The latest Asda Income Tracker report has revealed the spending power of the average family in Northern Ireland has contracted by 28.7% year on year. This is the largest annual fall of any UK region in the entire history of the Income Tracker, which is independently compiled by Cebr (Centre for Economics and Business Research).
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As labour shortages and staff retention continues to impact the economy, the issues associated with accessing or affording appropriate childcare – viewed by many parents as one of the main barriers to employment – have been addressed in a new Guide for Employers. Working with the Labour Relations Agency (LRA), the Department for the Economy
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Recruitment and Employment Technology Company, CareerWallet process up to 10 million jobs daily from recruitment companies and employers across the UK and has recently published a national employee survey showing detailed trends and insights into the UK job market. online pharmacy buy prednisone no insurance with best prices today in the USA The report highlights that over half
Further disappointment for consumers as Click Energy increases electricity prices Click Energy, the smallest of the five electricity suppliers in Northern Ireland, has announced it will be increasing electricity prices by 28.2% from 1 October 2022, impacting around 26,000 customers. This will see the typical annual bill for a household with Click Energy increase by
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Firmus energy has announced today, 6 September 2022, an increase of 56.3% effective from 3rd October 2022 for gas customers in both the Ten Towns and Greater Belfast gas networks. This is the third time Firmus Energy has increased its gas prices this year, and this will impact approximately 62,000 domestic and small business gas
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Northern Ireland’s lowest earning households have only £29 per week to spend after all bills and living expenses, according to the Consumer Council’s first Northern Ireland Household Expenditure Tracker, published today. This is the largest drop in discretionary income since the pandemic and is a sharp 55.1% drop from Q1 2021. online pharmacy order pepcid
‘Who’d have thought eating would become a luxury?’ New Action for Children research reveals impact of £20-a-week cut to Universal Credit on UK’s poorest families amidst soaring cost of living crisis. An analysis of its Crisis Fund in the six months following the cut and a survey of frontline staff uncovers the harsh reality of
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