Archive for October 2022

HM Revenue and Customs says thousands of teenagers haven’t claimed money from their Child Trust Fund (CTF) savings accounts that were set up by the Labour government 20 years ago. The CTCs are long-term savings accounts set up for every child born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011. To encourage future saving and…

UK House prices continued to rise over the summer, according to the latest figures, although the rate of increase is slowing. The statistics from HM Land Registry show that house prices rose by 0.9% between July and August. The annual increase to August was 13.6%, compared with an annual increase of 16% in the year…

A 12-year-old boy has been granted £50,000 from his late aunt’s estate on the basis that he had been treated as a child of the family. The boy was taken in by his aunt shortly after his birth because his mother was unable to care for him herself. The aunt acted as the boy’s main…