The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today launched its annual doorstep selling campaign, which aims to help elderly or vulnerable consumers know their rights.
The long-term retired are having to "knock lumps" out of their nest eggs just to get by, pensioners' groups warned today, as a report found saving pots for the over-75s have almost halved in the last two years.
Starting salaries for graduates are set to rise by 6% to an average of £26,500, while the jobs market is starting to stabilise, according to new research.
An increase in the minimum wage is required to protect low-income workers from a "perfect storm" of benefit cuts, rising living standards and a lack of jobs, Oxfam warns.
14 June 2012
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