27 August, 2014
27 August, 2014
[2014] NI Master 11
22 August, 2014
New regulations prescribe the fees and outlays payable to the Accountant in Bankruptcy in respect of the exercise of that office’s functions under the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985, and also prescribe when and in what manner certain fees and outlays are due for payment.
22 August, 2014
New regulations that set out the procedure for the making of applications to, and decisions by, the Accountant in Bankruptcy under the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 as amended by the Bankruptcy and Debt Advice (Scotland) Act 2014.
22 August, 2014
New regulations that re-enact, with modifications, the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Regulations 2008 following amendments to the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 1985 as amended by the Bankruptcy and Debt Advice (Scotland) Act 2014.
19 August, 2014
Financial Services Ombudsman warns consumers about websites that take hundreds of pounds on the promise of finding cheap credit, only for the loans never to materialise.
15 August, 2014
12 August, 2014
Money to support 26 projects across Scotland providing services that include increasing food provision, promoting healthy eating, benefits and other advice and linking food providers across a local area.
12 August, 2014
Guardian reports on pilot scheme of new service introduced after survey revealed that many food bank clients had payday loans.
6 August, 2014
Consultation will also consider increasing the bankruptcy debt threshold which has been set at £750 for almost 30 years.
28 July, 2014
Centre for Social Justice sets out major package of personal debt reforms designed to 'bring fairer banking to Britain’s poorest communities and challenge the monopoly of mainstream banks and payday lenders'.
24 July, 2014
New report estimates that, by 2018, number of households spending more than one-third of their after-tax income on mortgage repayments increases from 1.1m to 2.3m, whilst number spending more than one-half of their after-tax income on all forms of debt repayments increases from 0.6m to 1.1m.
23 July, 2014
However, personal insolvencies have decreased over the same period, according to official statistics from Accountant in Bankruptcy.
23 July, 2014
New report focuses on the effects of workers being guaranteed no set amount of work any given week, with CAB clients being forced to borrow from payday lenders and resort to food banks because of significant variances in pay.
23 July, 2014
New proposals include legal obligation for government to raise as many fuel poor homes as reasonably practicable to a Band C energy efficiency rating by 2030.
18 July, 2014
New regulations that allow for First-tier Tribunals to hear appeals relating to mobile homes and licensing of caravan sites, and for the Tax and Chancery Chamber of the Upper Tribunal to determine references from or appeals against decisions of the regulatory authorities that replaced the Financial Services Authority.
16 July, 2014
New research from Age UK shows that 960,000 people aged 65 or over have had to spend less on food in the last 2 years.
16 July, 2014
Views sought on introduction, from January 2015, of cap to ensure that someone will never need to pay back more than twice what they have borrowed, and someone taking out a typical loan over 30 days and repaying on time will not pay more than £24 per £100 borrowed.
10 July, 2014
Key figures in statistics published today include that, whilst the total insolvency rate decreased in all regions, the individual voluntary arrangement rate increased.
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