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The Office for Budget Responsibility projects the UK's state pension and pensioner benefit spending will rise from 5.6% to 9.6% of national income by the early 2070s; this increase is equivalent to £100 billion a year in today’s terms. The…

Freelancers’ financial situations have been seriously impacted by an increase in late payments during the pandemic with one million UK freelancers being pushed into debt since the pandemic hit, according to a report by IPSE (the…

Conditions for economic growth, are 'not a mystery', says the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in an open letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak. But if current policies continue and the Chancellor goes into austerity mode, ignores the…

Anil Stocker, CEO at MarketFinance, likens the current late-payments plight of UK SMEs as a “three-pronged assault” on SME finances.