Fair Finance : fair and responsible loans. Another year, another lockdown. As the UK continues to battle the Covid-19 virus, many of us are facing an increasing financial struggle as a result. We are all hoping the combination of ongoing restrictions and the rollout of the vaccination programme will bring Covid-19 under control. But what […]
New Year – New Start – 2021
Most of us will be delighted to see the end of 2020. It was a difficult year in so many ways. We’re all hoping that 2021 turns out to be a much better year in every way, even though it has not got off to the best of starts… New Year usually feels like a […]
Preparing for retirement
Plan for retirement with help from Fair Finance Retirement is a very complex issue in 2020, particularly taking into account the impact of Covid-19. In this article, Fair Finance looks at: The current state retirement and pension age; What to do if you want to retire early; What other sources of income are available to […]
How to start claiming benefits
Fair Finance offers loans for people on benefits In a previous article, we looked at what to do if you are faced with redundancy or have already been made redundant. One of the areas we mentioned in that article was benefits. If you are in the situation of having to access benefits for the first […]
Mental health and your finances
Get help from Fair Finance loans for people on benefits Are you ok? A simple question, but one that we don’t ask often enough. In an interview in late 2019, Meghan thanked the interviewer for asking if she was ok, saying “not many people have asked if I’m OK”. Even when we are asked if […]
What to do if you’ve been made redundant
Get a fair deal on bad credit personal loans Covid-19 has led to hundreds of thousands of jobs being lost. Between July and September 2020 there was a record 181,000 increase in the number of redundancies, as many companies began to cut jobs in anticipation of the end of the furlough scheme. Redundancies are higher […]
Christmas in the time of COVID
Christmas money: Is there an alternative to payday loans What are you doing for Christmas? It’s the question that everyone is typically asking at this time of year. The problem is, with 2020 having been such a difficult year, nobody really knows what is going to be happening at Christmas. You don’t want to make […]
Learning to work from home
Survive the pandemic lockdown with help from Fair Finance. Rewind back to the beginning of 2020, and for most people in the UK, work meant leaving home to go to a different place. At that time, only around one in three people worked from home, and less than half of them did so all the […]
What to do if you run out of money
Need financial help with the human touch? We are Fair Finance. 2020 has been a really tough year. Due to Covid-19, many of us have struggled with health problems, separation from family and friends, home schooling, and cancellation of major life events. And on top of this there is the huge financial impact of the […]
How to save money on food shopping
Money saving tips from Fair Finance… In our last Fair Finance article we looked at how to create a budget and stick to it. In that article we mentioned that food shopping is one of the biggest expenses that most people have, once all the household bills are paid. So in this article we are […]