British Commuter Spends the Equivalent Of 27 Days A Year Travelling To And From Work Says TUC

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has said this week that the average British commuter spends the equivalent of 27 days a year travelling to and from work. They also highlighted this has increased by 2.5 days in the last decade. Workers in the London take the longest to get to and from work – the equivalent of 38 working days a year.

Meanwhile are you drowning debt?

More than a million credit card users who are struggling financially have had their credit limits increased without asking, according to Citizens Advice. The charity is calling for a ban on unsolicited increases in credit card limits, saying such borrowing could make financial problems for these individuals much worse. They have called on the  Chancellor to include this in next week’s Budget. Citizens Advice said its research, based on a sample of 1,300 people with credit cards, suggested as six million cardholders may have had their credit limits put up without their consent in the last year. Some 1.4 million of those would be struggling financially.