Our top tips for overcoming your money troubles and becoming a successful saver plus find out how to win £5000 – The Sun

FEELING stressed out about money? If so, you are not alone. Today is National Stress Awareness Day and cash concerns consistently top lists of the big causes of anxiety. Getty – Contributor Making money stretch to end of the month is one of Brits’ biggest stresses Managing our budgets is seen as more stressful than…

Concerns new credit reporting scheme will penalise people struggling with debt – ABC Online

Federal Government plans to force Australia’s big banks to give credit agencies more detailed information about customers’ financial behaviour could penalise the poor, consumer groups have warned. Key points: From 2018, CBA, ANZ, Westpac and NAB will have to give credit agencies more detailed information about customers’ financial behaviour Consumer groups say the…

Human rights concerns mount in Puerto Rico in absence of adequate emergency response – Caribbean News Now (press release) (blog)

While conducting search and rescue in the mountains of Puerto Rico a CBP Air and Marine Operations Black Hawk located this home a half mile from its peek with HELP painted it is roof. GENEVA, Switzerland Puerto Rico remains without an effective emergency response more than a month after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, a…

Data transparency, debt consolidation and ID protection lead open enrollment wish list – Employee Benefit News

In the thick of open enrollment season, savvy employers and benefit advisers have eased the onslaught of information with complex benefit jargon by spreading out employee sign-up before the mad fall rush. Employee Benefit Adviser spoke with Jeffrey Faber, HUB International Midwests chief operating officer, to discuss how employers are urging employees to save with…

Data transparency, debt consolidation and ID protection lead open … – Employee Benefit Adviser

In the thick of open enrollment season, savvy employers and benefit advisers have eased the onslaught of information and complex benefit jargon by spreading out employee sign-up before the mad Fall rush. Employee Benefit Adviser spoke with Jeffrey Faber, HUB International Midwests chief operating officer, to discuss how employers are urging employees to save with…

Medical debt is crushing many Americans. States can help fix that – STAT

T he Trump administrations efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act are making health insurance less affordable and less accessible, and will almost certainly increase the number of Americans struggling with medical debt. State policymakers can and should act now to protect consumers from crushing medical debt and aggressive debt collection practices. Medical debt accrues…

Stop forcing the NBN to make a profit, says the consumer watchdog – Business Insider Australia

Australias consumer watchdog has suggested the federal government should consider liberating the NBN from its obligation to deliver profit for Treasury. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission released its draft report on the communications sector on Monday, with the national broadband network a major topic of discussion. With the national network having to subsidise its…