More than 74,000 married women set for £23,000 windfall after being underpaid their state pensions

More than 74,000 married women are set for a £23,000 windfall due to underpaid state pensions. They are part of a group of 200,000 pensioners, including widows and over-80s, who are owed £3billion in total. The fund was announced after the Government found systemic failures to automatically award pension pay rises stretching back 30 years.  … Read more

More than 74,000 married women set for £23,000 windfall after being underpaid their state pensions

More than 74,000 married women are set for a £23,000 windfall due to underpaid state pensions. They are part of a group of 200,000 pensioners, including widows and over-80s, who are owed £3billion in total. The fund was announced after the Government found systemic failures to automatically award pension pay rises stretching back 30 years.  … Read more

Pensionbee founder eyes £135m windfall amid tech float buzz 

Founder of retirement savings app Pensionbee eyes £135m windfall amid tech float buzz By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 22:35 GMT, 23 March 2021 | Updated: 22:35 GMT, 23 March 2021 Windfall Pensionbee founder and chief exec Romi Savova A retirement savings app is the latest technology firm to unveil plans for a … Read more

Some retailers that stayed open in pandemic net a £75m windfall

Some retailers that traded in pandemic net a £75m windfall from tax break aimed at worst hit firms – while others hand cash back to the Treasury By Neil Craven for The Mail on Sunday Published: 12:51 GMT, 7 March 2021 | Updated: 12:51 GMT, 7 March 2021 A handful of retailers that have remained … Read more

One of lockdown’s accidental savers? Put your windfall here

Are you one of lockdown’s accidental savers? Here’s where to put your windfall By Rachel Rickard Straus, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:52 GMT, 27 February 2021 | Updated: 21:52 GMT, 27 February 2021 Boost: The pandemic has created an army of six million ‘accidental savers’ The pandemic has created an army of six million ‘accidental … Read more

Amazon and other online giants are facing double tax raid on their finances including Covid windfall

Amazon and other online retailers are facing the prospect of a double tax raid, including one on the huge profits made by some web-based businesses during the Covid pandemic. Treasury officials are reportedly weighing up plans for an online sales tax in a bid to re-balance the scales between booming online businesses and struggling high … Read more

Boss heading for windfall in Moonpig stock market listing

Former WH Smith chief Kate Swann heading for windfall in bumper £1bn stock market listing by bespoke greetings card firm Moonpig.com By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 22:07 GMT, 16 January 2021 Former WH Smith chief Kate Swann is heading for a windfall in a bumper … Read more

Rolls-Royce workers receive £100m windfall early

Rolls-Royce workers receive £100m windfall early after taking 10% pay delay from April Nearly 50,000 staff at the engineer had 10 per cent pay deferred from April  It made the payout on Christmas Eve, bringing it forward by three months By Alex Lawson For The Mail On Sunday Published: 22:16 GMT, 26 December 2020 | … Read more

Advisers set for £835m fees windfall off LSE and Refinitiv mega-merger

Advisers set for £835m fees windfall from London Stock Exchange and data provider Refinitiv’s mega-merger By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 10 December 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 10 December 2020 Advisers working on the mega-merger between the London Stock Exchange and data provider Refinitiv are set to bag £835million in fees. … Read more

As three more supermarkets hand back business rates relief, it’s a £1.8bn windfall for the taxman 

As three more supermarkets hand back business rates relief, it’s a £1.8bn windfall for the taxman Sainsbury’s, Asda, Aldi and discounter B&M followed Tesco and Morrisons They paid back the windfall after their sales boomed in lockdown Ministers say the action is a ‘real model of good, healthy capitalism’ By Tom Witherow Financial Correspondent For The … Read more