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Great shame that the Financial Capability Award section of this year’s Children & Young People Now Awards went to a building society. Nothing against the Nationwide, or its Nationwide Education website. No doubt some teachers find it useful. But it would have been a lot more cheering to see the award going to a group doing some [...] Tomorrow everyone gets a chance to vote for their favourite new word for pensions. Axa is looking for a better word, and has shortlisted five from ideas submitted over the past week. Midnight tonight they switch on, and everyone gets voting. That’s the theory, and it can be tested at the Axa’s My Budget Day [...] What will young people want to know about today’s surprise Supreme Court ruling? UK banks have won their argument that overdraft fees on personal bank accounts cannot be assessed for fairness by the Office of Fair Trading. So what’s the impact on young people? For those who never spend more money than they have, it [...] Refused credit? The charity Credit Action estimates that 25,250 applications for consumer credit are turned down every day. Many of those refused will be young people who have not been able to build up a good credit rating. Yet most will want to borrow money at some point – for a major purchase or to [...] You know those times when you are chatting to teenagers about long-term, financial lifestyle planning? Otherwise known as pensions. And you realise there is a desperate shortage of interactive websites that help young people to achieve their future goals and aspirations by encouraging them to imagine what their lives will be like in 40 or [...] |
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