25 February, 2022
24 February, 2022
Plans designed to make higher education a ‘fairer system for both students and the taxpayers’ also include reducing the loan repayment earnings threshold to £25,000
16 February, 2022
16 February, 2022
Committee particularly seeks views on the impact of digital exclusion and social stigma, and the interaction between a person's mental health and debt
14 February, 2022
Plans include £30 million annual funding of regional debt advice services after previous procurement plans were cancelled following concession that they would not be in the best interests of people who need debt advice
9 February, 2022
28 January, 2022
22 December, 2021
Key changes include establishing a single, independent regulator and developing a system of compensation and redress
17 December, 2021
Announcement follows concerns raised by MPs and frontline debt advisers that new contracts would not provide adequate levels of face-to-face advice and would exclude many vulnerable people from debt advice altogether
16 December, 2021
We Are Debt Advisers warns that move to basic telephone and webchat advice under current procurement exercise will 'exclude many vulnerable people from debt advice altogether'
9 December, 2021
Letter to MaPs chief executive calls for existing debt advice funding arrangements to be extended so that a public consultation and equality impact assessment can be concluded
7 December, 2021
New duty will be enforced using 'assertive supervision' and 'new data-led approach to intervene quickly when practices which do not deliver for consumers are identified'
6 December, 2021
In new financial inclusion report, HM Treasury says that regulations for the new scheme may not be laid until the end of 2022
2 December, 2021
In response, Minister says that MaPs will need to demonstrate that commissioned services are able to deal with complex cases 'irrespective of the channel the cases come through'
30 November, 2021
Responding to concerns raised by the Treasury Committee, Money and Pensions Service adds that outcomes for people are comparable in both face-to-face and remote channels
30 November, 2021
Finding from FCA review will now be used by HM Treasury ‘to target work to determine if there are any further solutions for affected borrowers’
29 November, 2021
24 November, 2021
Inquiry to consider whether there need to be changes in local authority collection practices and legislation governing recovery of arrears
17 November, 2021
In addition, Committee questions whether move from grant agreements to contracts means there is an expectation that providers will make profits on the contracts
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