Flaw in how pre-paid funeral plans are drawn up exposed by grieving family who were denied chance to have say in funeral arrangements for their brother By Dominic Connolly, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 13 March 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 13 March 2021 A flaw in how pre-paid funeral plans are drawn … Read more
End of the pre-paid funeral rip-offs: Industry faces ban on cold calling amid concerns over pressure selling By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 2 March 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 2 March 2021 Funeral plan providers face a major crackdown and a ban on cold calling amid concerns over pressure selling. … Read more
Pre-paid funeral deals will have to include a service to mark a loved one’s death in future under plans to crack down on rip-off providers. There will also be bans on cold calling, expensive add-ons and kickbacks to middlemen, to prevent people being mis-sold unsuitable funeral plans. The clampdown on firms that tout poor deals … Read more
Mastercard bans a conversion con on its prepaid cards which strips millions of pounds a year from British travellers Tourists are routinely offered a chance to pay in their ‘home’ currency This process is called ‘dynamic currency conversion’ Such conversion rates are expensive, as the Mail on Sunday warned last week By Laura Shannon, Financial … Read more