Centrelink is for the first time trialling a version of its automated debt recovery system on the nations most vulnerable welfare recipients, bypassing previous safeguards designed to protect those with severe mental illness, intellectual impairment or drug addiction. Welfare recipients whose files are marked with a vulnerability indicator have so far been exempt from Centrelinks…
To determine which credit cards are best for getting out of debt, CNBC Make It compiled a list of 25 highly rated cards, most of which are recognized as balance-transfer cards. Others are considered cash-back cards first but still have features that help users get out of debt. We vetted each card based on its…
Tally Growing up in the woods of Breckenridge, Colorado, and homeschooled by fundamentalist Christian parents, Jason Brown remembers being constantly anxious about money. When he finally left to start college at Boston University, he had no financial support from his parents and relied on scholarships and loans. He helped pay off his debts by starting…
TERESA RAMSEY/STUFF Thames Coromandel CAP Debt Help Centre manager Eleanor Birrell, with Equippers Church Pastor Ryan Sims. A free budget service has been launched to help fight poverty in the Thames-Coromandel and Hauraki districts. The Thames Coromandel CAP Debt Help Centre will be launched on August 16, with support from Thames Equippers Church and Christians…
Q: My husband and I recently divorced. Im having a hard time adjusting to the single life. When we were together, we had more money coming in, but now Im renting a one-bedroom apartment, which costs me $1600, not including my hydro and internet. Ive also got car expenses and my cellphone bill. I only make…
Eleven thermal power enterprises based in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province are turning to government amid a debt crisis, according to a domestic media report on Monday. On August 7, the companies approached officials of the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the provincial energy supervision office and the Sichuan Energy Bureau to ask for help,…
The decline of the unemployment rate is starting to be a big topic nowadays and National Debt Relief aims to help people understand it better. The article titled “Is The US Headed Towards An Unemployment Low?” released August 8, 2018, gives consumers an idea on what a low unemployment rate can mean for businesses and…
One MP said he continued to back the certainty offered by the National Energy Guarantee. Fairfax Media understands Mr Sims made it clear to the Nationals party room that one of the 56 recommendations in the regulators pricing report in June should not be described as underwriting coal or favouring coal-fired power stations. Instead, Mr…
Dear Lifehacker, I keep seeing certain types of debt (mortgages, student loans) referred to as “good” debt, whereas other types (credit card debt, for example) are referred to as “bad” debt. What does that mean? What makes a certain type of debt “good” and another type “bad?”
by Jeff Bennett Tales of rural doom and gloom in the face of the current drought are high on the media profile at present. It may surprise some who have digested this material that Australian farmers are, in fact, a robust lot. Rather than standing around waiting for help to arrive in the form of…