Posts by Charlotte Beugge

Will your insurance help if you fall ill on holiday?

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Thousand of Britons go abroad on holiday this month. While most will have a trouble-free trip, others will succumb to illness or have an accident.

SPECIAL REPORT: Tracking down missing millions – claim thousands of pounds from your forgotten savings

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Billions of pounds are sitting unclaimed in old accounts. Charlotte Beugge explains how to play detective and find out if your long-forgotten investments are worth anything…

ARE WE BEING SERVED? Save us from this holiday hell

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Cancelled flights, last-minute hotel changes, unhelpful resort reps . . .and no one to hear our complaints: Charlotte Beugge investigates.

Tax code fiasco hits thousands of elderly women

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Pensioners are the latest victims of tax code blunders. HM Revenue & Customs is issuing incorrect tax codes which mean that, from the start of the new tax year, they might be paying the wrong amount of tax.

Current accounts that cost: Want a useless perk? That’ll be £25 a month

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Banks are pushing customers into fee-charging accounts in a bid to boost profits at the expense of the financially naive.

If it’s too late for parcels, send cash gifts overseas

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Watch out if you’re planning to send Christmas presents abroad: you may have already missed the boat. If you haven’t already posted your parcels, then consider cash presents instead.

Safe sales soar as families go back to keeping cash at home

Friday, November 27th, 2009

Sales of home safes have rocketed by 50 per cent in the past year as householders worried about the safety of banks hold cash at home.

CHARLOTTE BEUGGE’S THE LAST WORD: Face it banks, you’ve lost

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Surely now is the time for High Street banks to admit they’ve lost