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  • The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market by Insurance Blogger on July 14th, 2010 // // The hatchet man Chancellor George Osborne has spoken and the little red box opened to reveal one of the most stinging budgets in recent memory, already...

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  • How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    How the UK Budget will affect the price of Insurance

    The effect of the Budget upon the UK Insurance market by Insurance Blogger // // The hatchet man Chancellor George Osborne has spoken and the little red box opened to reveal one of the most stinging budgets in recent memory, already named the austerity budget,...

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  • Unemployment Insurance – Beat The Public Spending Cuts!

    Unemployment Insurance – Beat The Public Spending Cuts!

    The past week of electioneering and the unemployment figures released midweek by the Office of National Statistics, paint a gloomy future for many currently employed in the Public Sector and jobs that rely on Government Funding. Whatever the outcome of the General Election on May...

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  • Public Sector Employees Facing Redundancy Should Consider Unemployment Insurance

    Public Sector Employees Facing Redundancy Should Consider Unemployment Insurance

    With the recession officially over and 0.5 percent growth in the last quarter of 2009 you might be fooled in believing that unemployment is a thing of the past. The grim truth is that every day up and down the country people are still losing...

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  • Recession still to bottom out as UK Insurance Industry Suffers

    Recession still to bottom out as UK Insurance Industry Suffers

    The pundits in the housing markets often seem to be singing from a different songsheet when it comes to what’s really happening in the UK economy. One minute we hear that repossessions have dropped in comparison to the first quarter of 2009, and that house...

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  • Payment Protection is the solution to National Debt management

    Payment Protection is the solution to National Debt management

    InsuranceBlogger was calling for an overhaul of the way the Government manages unemployment back in November last year. The recent global economic events have seen record levels of unemployment in the UK. Now one of the UK’s leading experts on the cost of Unemployment and...

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  • Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    The grand old lady from carrot crunching country just couldn’t cut the mustard with the bosses of the Iberian sounding Aviva and will officially be given the fatal injection at midnight tonight. As an ex-employee of GA bonus (New Zealand Insurance) do I care? At...

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  • 12800 UK homes repossesed in the first quarter of 2009

    12800 UK homes repossesed in the first quarter of 2009

    Despite the UK government saying they eould help keep people in their homes there were over 12000 repossessions in the UK in first quarter of 2009. There were 12,800 repossessions through the courts by first-charge on the property mortgage lenders and banks, in the first...

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  • Avoid Home Repossessions with Mortgage Protection Insurance

    Avoid Home Repossessions with Mortgage Protection Insurance

    The Council of Mortgage Lenders has just published statistics on mortgage arrears and possessions. Worringly but hardly surprising, the figures for 2008 show a sharp rise on the same period last year. Key Facts include: • 5,000 fewer repossessions than forecast in 2008• 40,000 repossessions...

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  • UK Unemployment Figures Highest Since 1997

    UK Unemployment Figures Highest Since 1997

    The official umemployment figures have just been released and show that unemployment has risen to 1.86 million for the first time in eleven years or since Mr Blair’s New Labour came into office to form the current government.The analysis shows that the worst hit areas...

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