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• British families waste less food since recession, government survey suggests

  22 Oct 2014: FSA polling shows people are less likely to throw food away and have changed shopping habits to find bargains and reduce waste because of financial pressures
  

• Why did Britain’s political class buy into the Tories’ economic fairytale?

  19 Oct 2014: Ha-Joon Chang: Falling wages, savage cuts and sham employment expose the recovery as bogus. Without a new vision we’re heading for social conflict

• Under-30s being priced out of the UK, says social mobility tsar

  19 Oct 2014: Mobility tsar says Britain is on verge of being permanently divided between haves and have-nots as young miss out on recovery, writes Daniel Boffey

• Osborne’s new pension plans: the options … and the tax implications

  18 Oct 2014: Do you take a tax-free lump sum, buy that Lamborghini, or spend it all on your children right now? Today’s over-55s have a maze of possibilities for their pension pot

• Whitehall cleaners gather outside HMRC to campaign for living wage

  17 Oct 2014: Cleaning staff and civil servants call on HMRC chief exec Lin Homer to secure just wage for those working in London

• Lord Freud was crass, but he’s started a vital discussion on self-employment

  16 Oct 2014: Gaby Hinsliff: The clodhopping welfare reform minister isn’t the issue here – the rise in self-employment and fall in wages is

• Stalled pay growth leaves average UK worker £5,000 a year worse off

  15 Oct 2014: Real-term fall in wages since 2008 means pay now 20% below where it should be, Institute for Policy Research report says

• Thank you wedding industry for sapping the joy out of getting married

  14 Oct 2014: Daisy Buchanan: It’s definitely ‘for poorer’ once all the organisers have taken their cut. Even if you don’t get the giant mongoose of your dreams

• How banks and credit agencies can ruin your life – when you’re not even in debt

  11 Oct 2014: Court summons, bailiffs, county court judgments – mistaken identity turned into a two-year nightmare for one Surrey man

• Beware the crooks who want to get their hands on your pension pot

  6 Oct 2014: One in eight employees aged 50 or over has been the target of fraudsters promising to release their pension savings

• Fall in UK living standards deeper than thought, TUC says

  30 Sep 2014: Union attacks nature of UK economic recovery which revises up pace of growth but revises down household incomes

• Why shame is the most dominant feature of modern poverty

  30 Sep 2014: Jeremy Seabrook: Poor people now seem to accept responsibility for what was previously seen as fate. And this is reinforced by the Tories’ welfare cuts

• George Osborne aims at tax credits and benefits in new squeeze on working poor

  30 Sep 2014: Chancellor gambles on austerity in speech to Conservative conference outlining plans which will hit 10m households

• George Osborne: UK working-age benefits to be frozen for two years

  29 Sep 2014: Chancellor outlines £25bn of spending cuts and rules out tax rises in bid to tackle UK’s ‘dangerously high national debt’

• Who benefits from abolition of 55% tax on pensions?

  29 Sep 2014: Patrick Collinson analyses the detail behind George Osborne’s plan to cull tax that hits pensioners who want to pass on savings

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