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All the latest news and articles covering the UK's Cost of Living as prices rise and a crisis takes hold, including updates on support and payments. Cost of Living refers to the amount of money needed to cover basic expenses, such as housing, food, energy bills, and healthcare.

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  1. New corporate identity and logo Nationwide Building society on 28th July 2024 in London, United Kingdom. Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution, the seventh largest cooperative financial institution and the largest building society in the world. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

    Nationwide shares major update on £100 customer bonus payout date

    Channel: Money Money 3 days ago By Jessica Lindsay
  2. Lidl has slashed the price of its best bakery items to just 29p
  3. Supermarket own-brand cheddar cheese officially crowned better than Cathedral City
  4. I visited the Amazon returns warehouse where everything is discounted
  5. Metro’s Formula for Change campaign heads to Downing Street

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Formula for Change campaign in front of the No.10 door

Metro’s Formula for Change campaign heads to Downing Street

Channel: UK UK 2 days ago By Josie Copson
Fresh bakery items in Lidl grocery store in Ireland

Lidl has slashed the price of its best bakery items to just 29p

Channel: Food Food 2 days ago By Courtney Pochin
New corporate identity and logo Nationwide Building society on 28th July 2024 in London, United Kingdom. Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution, the seventh largest cooperative financial institution and the largest building society in the world. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)

Nationwide shares major update on £100 customer bonus payout date

Channel: Money Money 3 days ago By Jessica Lindsay
Amy Evans and her mother Kathleen Moore, with other family members. A daughter is fighting for more financial support after her mum's money worries drove her to take her own life. Kathleen Moore, 60, had spent the last four years struggling to make her mortgage payments after they shot up by ?600-a-month due to rising interest rates on her interest only loan. The mum-of-two had osteoporosis which hindered how much she could work as a dog sitter - and she was too young to retire and receive her pension. Daughter Amy Evans, 37, said her mum was trying to work at least 30 hours a month.

Mum-of-two took own life 'after mortgage payments shot up by £500 a month'

Channel: UK UK 4 days ago By Sam Corbishley
A new mum and her baby

The £400 mistake new parents make — and how to avoid it

Channel: Money Money 3 days ago By Jon Fellowes
Woman cutting a piece of cheese in the kitchen, slicing it for breakfast meal.

Supermarket own-brand cheddar cheese officially crowned better than Cathedral City

Channel: Food Food 5 days ago By Courtney Pochin
Jon Fellowes at Trade Outlet

I visited the Amazon returns warehouse where everything is discounted

Channel: Shopping Shopping 4 days ago By Jon Fellowes
A hand holding a Pret Raspberry Cooler up with the sky in the background

Pret is giving away hundreds of free drinks — but you’ll have to be quick

Channel: Food Food April 11, 2025 By Courtney Pochin

UK passport holders have 24 hours before 'insane' price increase — here's how to avoid it

Channel: Travel Travel April 10, 2025 By Alice Murphy
A UK border sign at the arrivals hall in London's Heathrow Airport.

UK passport holders have just 48 hours before 'insane' price increase

Channel: Travel Travel April 9, 2025 By Alice Murphy

List of UK items Trump's tariffs will hit the hardest with three key industries affected

Channel: UK UK April 3, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Every bill going up from April 1 — and how to save hundreds by haggling

Channel: Money Money April 1, 2025 By Rosie Murray-West
Smart Meter readings

Up to 3,500,000 Brits could receive £40 compensation for ‘dumb’ smart meters

Channel: Money Money April 1, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
Martin Lewis

Martin Lewis shares three-day warning to save £100s before energy price hike

Channel: Money Money March 26, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
Young family of three with a toddler managing their budget,paying bills and taxes online and calculating monthly expenses at home.Inflation concept.

UK families to be '£1,400-a-year poorer by 2030'

Channel: Politics Politics March 23, 2025 By Oliver Jones

Martin Lewis issues 10-day warning to qualify for £100 Nationwide bonus payout

Channel: Money Money March 20, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
The frontage and brand logo of a branch of German discount retailer Aldi, taken in a local retail park on Wirral, UK on a sunny afternoon

Aldi branded 'top tier' for offering free period products in UK supermarket first

Channel: Shopping Shopping March 19, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
Business People Walking in Canary Wharf

The hours you need to work to afford an 'average' life in different UK cities revealed

Channel: Money Money March 18, 2025 By Jessica Lindsay
Formula for Change - Stevenage babybank babyshed

Inside the baby bank: 'People never think they will be in this position'

Channel: UK UK March 16, 2025 By Kirsten Robertson
Courtney Pochin stood outside a Costco warehouse

I went to Costco for the first time — it isn't for the weak

Channel: Food Food March 16, 2025 By Courtney Pochin

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