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All About Council Tax Benefit
All About Council Tax Benefit
When you experience redundancy, you need all the financial help you can get. Council Tax Benefit makes it easier to survive on a reduced income....
All About Tax Rebates and Redundancy
All About Tax Rebates and Redundancy
If you've just been made redundant, you may be due a tax rebate. Sometimes it will be handled automatically; otherwise, you'll need to claim yourself....
Can I Claim Jobseekers Allowance When Overseas?
Can I Claim Jobseekers Allowance When Overseas?
Just because you leave the country it does not necessarily mean your jobseeker’s allowance ends the minute you leave UK soil....
How does Redundancy Effect your Company Shares?
How does Redundancy Effect your Company Shares?
If you have share options in the company you work for, or have been participating in a share award scheme, how does redundancy affect your rights?...
How Redundancy Affects Bonuses
How Redundancy Affects Bonuses
The basic rules on establishing the statutory minimum amount of redundancy pay are clear. Throw bonuses into the mix, however, and things get more complicated....
How to Manage your Debts
How to Manage your Debts
If redundancy means you're going to struggle with debt repayments, options are available to help you mitigate some of the unpleasantness....
Insurance Against Redundancy
Insurance Against Redundancy
If you're worried about job security, taking out insurance against redundancy may help you survive the loss of your job with your lifestyle intact....
Investing a Redundancy Payment
Investing a Redundancy Payment
If you get a large redundancy payment, you may be tempted to splash out on a sports car. But try and calm yourself down and think about some sensible choices instead....
Living on a Reduced Income
Living on a Reduced Income
Redundancy brings an abrupt change in your income level. It's important to adjust your daily finances straight away to cope with the new circumstances you find…...
Negotiating a Redundancy Package with your Employer
Negotiating a Redundancy Package with your Employer
When you're faced with redundancy, you don't need to accept the first package your employer offers you. Negotiate to get a better deal....
Redundancy and Keeping Up Mortgage Payments
Redundancy and Keeping Up Mortgage Payments
As unemployment figures continue to rise it’s important to work out how you would pay your mortgage if you were made redundant....
Redundant: What Debts Should I Pay First?
Redundant: What Debts Should I Pay First?
Scraping together enough money to pay off debts when your redundant can seem impossible, which is why it is important to prioritise....
Taking a Mortgage Break: Paying the Interest Only
Taking a Mortgage Break: Paying the Interest Only
Paying the interest only on your mortgage is a good way to cut down on your monthly payments, but switching to interest only should only be done when absolutely…...
The Best Way to Spend Your Redundancy Pay
The Best Way to Spend Your Redundancy Pay
It might be tempting to splash out and spend your redundancy pay on life’s little luxuries, but for it to be beneficial you will need to spend it wisely....
What are my Obligations to Creditors?
What are my Obligations to Creditors?
Redundancy often raises the prospect of you possibly having to default on your debts. So what exactly are your obligations to your creditors?...
What Are the Financial Penalties Attached to Redundancy?
What Are the Financial Penalties Attached to Redundancy?
Finding out you are being made redundant can be a hard pill to swallow and even more so if there are any financial penalties attached to your redundancy....
What Happens to your Pension?
What Happens to your Pension?
When redundancies are in the offing, you need to know how your pension will be handled should the axe fall on you....
What is PPI and can I Claim on it?
What is PPI and can I Claim on it?
Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) can be a vital resource when you're facing redundancy. But will you be able to claim on it?...
When Redundancy Insurance is Not Good
When Redundancy Insurance is Not Good
Insuring yourself against redundancy may sound like a fool proof plan, but in reality this type of insurance does not always prove worthwhile....
Will I Receive Maternity Pay in Redundancy?
Will I Receive Maternity Pay in Redundancy?
It is not uncommon for firms to make employees on maternity leave redundant, which can result in no or reduced maternity pay....
Will My Pension Be Affected by My Redundancy?
Will My Pension Be Affected by My Redundancy?
Being made redundant doesn’t always mean that you will lose your pension scheme as well, but there is a risk....
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