Fairer insurance pricing
Insurance pricing is complex and opaque - and is often most expensive for those on the lowest incomes. This report looks to understand how modern general insurance pricing works, and what the public t...
New research: how people can be charged more for factors often outside their control, e.g.
✅ being on a lower income
✅ where they live
✅ their credit score
✅ even their email domain or time of day they buy it
No wonder many feel confused and excluded. 👇
www.fairerfinance.com/insights/res...
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We launch new case study on local No Interest Loan Schemes in the North East
Today we are publishing a new case study showing how local No Interest Loan Schemes (NILS) are successfully helping people avoid paying the poverty premium.
No Interest Loan Schemes (NILS) help people on low incomes to manage financial shocks. Here's a case study on how NILS are helping people in the North East, carried out by @mariacbooker.bsky.social at @fairbydesign.bsky.social y
fairbydesign.com/we-launch-ne...
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A group of Scotland’s leading policymakers and professionals from the private, charity and not-for-profit sectors who have come together to tackle financial exclusion.
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Head of Policy at Citizens Advice (consumer, debt and postal services)
Co-Director and Professor at the Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University. Research/think/write on poverty, living standards, income, retirement. Running may sneak in now & then.
Specialist subject: Accessibility & Inclusion in financial services.
Director of Aspire, Betterforus campaign - all for blue sky thinking - posts on labour markets, procurement, equality, poverty, inequality and regeneration www.aspirecommunityworks.com www.betterforus.org.uk
CHASM is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Birmingham, working towards a society where everyone has the financial security they need to thrive.
Sociologist & Lecturer of Social Policy (uni of Salford) Food poverty, food banks, social security, and UBI.
Socialist and Republic of Cymru.
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Award-winning freelance financial journalist & writer. Likes politics, policy & personal finance 🌻 Ⓥ muckrack.com/laurapurkess also investinginsiders.co.uk/authors/laura
CEO of the Consumer Council for Water. PhD in meteorology. Host of Waterfall podcast. Professional and personal interests in water, climate, environment and social justice. Fan owner of Hearts ⚽ Scots 🏴 exile in Brum 🇬🇧
Brighton-dwelling World Trade Editor at the Financial Times
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Chief Exec @moneyandmentalhealth.org - tweeting in a personal capacity about mental health, money and matrescence, mostly. (She/her)
Interested in all the good stuff - civic engagement & the social value, purpose and impact of Education and Research.
Director of Strategy & Operations (International, Engagement and Service) at King’s College London.
