Articles in the Children Category
Budget 2008: Are You Any Better Off?
March 13th, 2008
This year’s budget wasn’t the most exciting, but in the current financial climate, you could hardly expect it to be.
With businesses and consumers finding borrowing more and more difficult, as banks reduce their lending following the credit crunch, and as the cost of electricity, …
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Encouraging Child Trust Fund Figures
January 19th, 2008
Despite the initial slow takeup of Child Trust Funds (CTFs), more recently there has been signs that parents are beginning to understand them and take them more seriously.
For the uninitiated, CTFs are savings accounts for kids which cannot be accessed until …
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Cost Of Raising A Child: £186,000
December 9th, 2007
Here comes some scary news for parents:
A new survey by Liverpool Victoria suggests that the cost of raising a child to the age of 21 is a staggering £186,000. This cost has risen by 33% in the last 5 years, plus it is expected to rise by 42% in the …
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Free Guides To Payment Cards For Teenagers
October 1st, 2007
Apacs, the UK payments association, has released 2 guides discussing payment card options for teenagers and ‘young adults’.
According to Apacs, 86% of 18-24 year olds carry some sort of plastic in their wallets, and these guides aim to help them make the right decision when choosing payment cards. And …
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Child Trust Fund Performance Figures
September 13th, 2007
At the end of last month The Telegraph published a table of the performance of stocks and share Child Trust Funds.
If you want to compare how your kids trust fund has performed, view the table.
The table shows just how much difference your decision can make to the size of …
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Motley Fool: Will Your Children Kill Your Pension?
January 11th, 2007
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This Is Money: They Falsely Invoiced Then Threatened Me
January 7th, 2007
This week the ace investigator takes a closer look at a company called Imprint, which has issued false invoices for children’s safety handbook
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Scotsman: How Kids’ Cash Can Help Parents To Survive
January 6th, 2007
AS MANY as 83,000 parents are so short of money this January that they are prepared to raid their children’s bulging post-Christmas piggy banks just to get them through the month.
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Scotsman: 2.5 Million Child Trust Funds Opened
January 6th, 2007
ALMOST 2.5 million Child Trust Fund (CTF) accounts have now been opened, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Ed Balls, announced today, with three-quarters of parents opening their children’s accounts themselves, rather than leaving it to the…
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This Is Money: Children’s Free Money Sits Untouched
January 4th, 2007
A quarter of all parents whose children received child trust fund payments have not chosen an investment tool for their child’s money
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