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Interest payments on the national debt to be £70bn lower than expected over next five years thanks to rock-bottom rates By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 25 November 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 25 November 2020 Interest payments on the ballooning national debt will be almost £70billion lower than previously expected … Read more
A singer has told MPs that her earnings from music streaming platforms are not enough to keep ‘the wolf away from the door’. Songwriter Nadine Shah said there was a lack of transparency over pay in the music industry. Miss Shah, 34, also told a Government inquiry into streaming that despite her successes, including a … Read more
State pension payments worth billions of pounds being sacrificed because people don’t know they’re entitled to claim them: Eight ways to boost yours By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 21 November 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 21 November 2020 State pension payments worth billions of pounds are being sacrificed because … Read more
CVS becomes first US retailer to support PayPal and Venmo QR codes for checkout payments, allowing customers to avoid touching keypads amid the coronavirus pandemic CVS now accepts PayPal and Venmo QR codes for payments at all its US stores Customers open either PayPal or Venmo on their smartphone and click ‘Scan’ Then select the … Read more
My pension was rescued when an old employer went bust, but why don’t the payments ever rise with inflation? Steve Webb replies By Steve Webb for This Is Money Published: 07:54 GMT, 9 November 2020 | Updated: 07:54 GMT, 9 November 2020 For a number of years now the Pension Protection Fund has paid my … Read more
Sainsbury’s tipped to restart dividend despite row over it receiving huge tax break and a second national lockdown By Alex Lawson, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 31 October 2020 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 31 October 2020 Sainsbury’s is tipped to restart dividend payments this week despite a row over it receiving a huge … Read more
MPs will probe Spotify and Apple Music after musicians claimed payments they get from streaming giants are ‘woefully insufficient’ Committee to look at sustainability of streaming and impact on music industry Inquiry comes as campaigners called streaming royalties ‘woefully insufficient’ Musicians’ Union and Ivors Academy have launched ‘Keep Music Alive’ campaign By Katie Feehan For … Read more
Liverpool is to set up its own ‘local furlough’ scheme to supplement ‘inadequate’ coronavirus wage subsidies for local workers, City Region mayor Steve Rotheram announced today. He blasted the job support scheme set up by Rishi Sunak saying its 67 per cent payments were not enough to keep people going while swathes of the region’s … Read more
Venmo launches physical credit card backed by Visa with a scannable QR code for contactless payments and an individualized cash-back program Available in five designs, the no-fee card comes with a QR code on the front The rewards program gives cash back on your most popular spending categories An RFID-enabled chip allows users to tap … Read more
More than 80,000 employers return £215million to the government in furlough payments which was no longer needed or received in error HMRC figures say 80,433 firms have returned money received under furlough Companies and other bodies have handed £215,756,121, back to the Government It’s a fraction of the £35.4billion handed out under the tax-payer funded … Read more