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Cash-strapped customers can buy Christmas card stamps at reduced prices under new Royal Mail scheme
Cash-strapped customers can now buy their Christmas card stamps at reduced prices under a new scheme from the Royal Mail.
PUBLISHED: 01:14, 5 December 2012 | UPDATED: 13:51, 5 December 2012
Cash-strapped customers can now buy their Christmas card stamps at reduced prices under a new scheme from the Royal Mail.
The Christmas stamp scheme allows those in receipt of Pension Credit, Employment and Support Allowance, Incapacity Benefit or Unemployability Supplement to buy up to 36 first and second-class stamps at 2011 prices — 46p and 36p.
So, if you brought 36 first-class stamps with the scheme, you would make a saving of £5.04.
Helping hand: Leaflets have already been sent to every home in the UK explaining who is eligible, along with a voucher
However, you can receive the discount over only one transaction. The scheme runs until December 24.
Families face choice between food and heating, warn charities
By Gabriella Jozwiak, Thursday 06 December 2012
Families on benefits could be forced to choose between paying for food and heating, as a result of measures announced in the autumn statement, children’s charities have warned.
Children and young people’s organisations warned that families would be hit by the real-terms cuts to working-age benefits and tax credits.
Jobseeker’s Allowance, income support and child tax credit are among the working-age benefits that will increase by just one per cent over the next three years, equating to a real-terms cut, given that inflation is currently running at more than two per cent.
The Children’s Society suggested the one per cent cap would mean an unemployed, lone parent with one child and no other income will only receive about £4 more each month after housing costs in 2015.
Check your own home for fire safety – DVD
Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service
We want you, your family, friends and neighbours to be safe from fire in your home, to help you do this we have a short video which will highlight the risks in your home room by room and give you some advice on how to make it safer.
If you are over 60 or have a disability which could make it more difficult to react to a fire please contact us to see if you are eligible for a free home fire risk check of your home.
We also have a Home Fire Risk Self Checker which you can print out or follow on line, this helps you walk around your home identify potential risks and tells you what you can do about them.
