National Insurance
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Self-employed? Don't celebrate NI U-turn just yet!
Just one week after the Budget announcement, Chancellor Philip Hammond U-turned on the most high-profile measure - the increase of National Insurance for self-employed people. He has said it won't be increased during this parliament. His
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Chancellor scraps NI increases for the self-employed
Chancellor Philip Hammond has scrapped plans to increase National Insurance rates for millions of self-employed workers, just a week after the Budget - full story from The Huffington
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Budget 2017: booming self-employed workforce hit by tax hike
Philip Hammond's Spring Budget has hammered the self-employed. He outlined that increasing national insurance payments for people who work for themselves was a matter of fairness - so that people receive the same pay for the same work as one
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Budget 2017: What it means for you
Philip Hammond has delivered his first, and last Spring Budget (he's moving the Budget to the Autumn). His 'Spreadsheet Phil' reputation led commentators to predict a quiet budget, with better-than-expected economic news, but no
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Blunders means thousands of state pensions have been underpaid
Around 30,000 people have been ripped off by the Department of Work and Pensions, which has been paying them less state pension than they were entitled to. We all need to check our National Insurance records, to ensure we don't become
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Guaranteed pension income of 6% - but thousands are missing out
There's a special deal available, for a limited time only, that will mean you get a market-beating 6% return on a pension investment - guaranteed for life. It sounds like a too-good-to-be-true pitch from an oily con man, but it's
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Seven things you need to know about the new state pension
The state pension has changed. In what was hailed as the biggest ever shakeup to state pensions, from 6 April this year, the system of having a basic state pension plus an optional and variable top up was switched for a far simpler version - with
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