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Wealth Knowledge – September 2020
- 4th September 2020
- Posted by: shayne
- Category: Wealth Knowledge
No CommentsHelp-to-buy equity loan scheme gets two-month extension The Government has extended a loan scheme which is designed to help those who are struggling to save for a mortgage deposit. Buyers who use the help-to-buy equity loan scheme now have until 28 February 2021 for their new-build homes in England to be finished. The previous deadline
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Options for funding long-term care
- 2nd September 2020
- Posted by: shayne
- Category: Longterm Care
Building your savings for later life care. Paying for long-term care is not cheap, and the burden first falls on private individuals. Ros Altman – the former pensions minister – described the nation as “sleepwalking into a social care crisis”, and already the costs borne privately are staggering. One newspaper last year reported that the
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Retirement saving for the self-employed
- 1st September 2020
- Posted by: shayne
- Category: Pension
How to save for a pension if you work for yourself. For ministers to say workplace pensions have been an “extraordinary success” is perfectly valid, but those excluded from the government’s flagship scheme may not share that sentiment. The official statistics corroborate those claims, showing that more than 10 million employees over the age of