What r/UKPersonalFinance is talking about this week

My dad owns his own home and after my mum died, he got together with a new partner in 2008 and she lived in a council house. They decided to buy her council house and get the discount. The house...

Now this might be very obvious to the average person, but I hadn't looked at it this way until now due to lack of research. I looked at increasing my salary sacrifice to 7.5% a while back, when a...

Hi everyone, I’m 44 and live on my own in a house with a mortgage. I earn £80k a year and, financially speaking, I’m in a pretty comfortable position. I’m not someone who spends much or lives an...

Hello, long time lurker here. My dad (78) just called me with some surprising news. He has invested a large lump sum with a company called inverset. He informed me it’s not a scam and he’s got a...

I'm 38 years old on 27.5K a year, paying the minimum amount in to my pension, with hardly anything at all in my pension. I have 30k saved in my bank account, I live alone renting and pay £196 per...

Hi all I'm an ex addict - long story, girlfriend committed suicide, I ended up on drugs and in debt. Eventually I went to prison but I got myself clean and have been out of prison and off drugs...

Can someone with an economic background answer this for me? I understand that the primary goal of the BoE’s rate setting is to control inflation (2.5% target). I also understand that higher rates...

My mental health has been in pieces over the last couple of years and I am not earning full salary due to being on long-term sick. As a result of this I have only enough left in savings to make up...

I appreciate that I'm in a very fortunate position. At the age of 40, I've managed to accumulate over £400k in my pension pot. Over the last 5 years the funds have grown around 90%, over the last...

So I have a problem with controlling parents and one of the problems is that they don’t allow me to use my physical debit card and they hide it away from me “in case I lose it” (even though I’m...