Child benefit and pension credits. Parents – particularly mums – are finding themselves at risk of losing thousands of pounds of retirement income because of an administrative bungle around the claiming of child benefit. It’s a topic close to my own heart as I am one of these mums myself. Any person who cares for […]
I am a mum. A mum who has had a decent chunk of time out of work to raise my children and then returned to work part-time. As a woman, I am likely to live for longer than my husband. I am also 37 and realise that there is a good chance that by the […]
Welcome back to another post in my ‘Investing : a woman’s perspective’ series, where we talk women and investing. This week I am talking with Charlotte Jessop of Looking After Your Pennies. Firstly, tell us about yourself? I’m Charlotte. I’m married with two kids aged 3 and nearly 1. We own our home which we have a mortgage […]
We were lucky enough to go to Kidzania last week thanks to Kidzania and Picniq who currently have an exclusive ‘kids go half price’ offer on tickets. If you’ve been, you’ll know what an absolutely fabulous place it is. If you haven’t, we crammed as much as we could in a very busy 4 hours and […]
A month in to the holidays. Those rainy days of typical school holidays which seem to last forever have been replaced by sunny days of outdoor play where the kids flop in to bed exhausted. This is what summers should be like! After a fabulous week last week with all four of us at Kelling […]
We all hope for a relaxed and easy going holiday with little drama. Buying travel insurance when you go away is essential if you don’t want to risk unforeseen costs if something goes wrong. Which unfortunately sometimes they do. Have you ever put in a claim and your holiday insurance won’t pay out? I learned […]
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