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Additional State Pension

Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVCs)

Administrator

Advance fee scams

AER (Annual Equivalent Rate)

Affinity fraud

Agency worker

Alcohol duty

Allowances

Annual Percentage Rate (APR)

Annuity

Appreciation

Approval in principle

APR (Annual Percentage Rate)

Arrangement fee

Attendance allowance

AVCs (Additional Voluntary Contributions)

B

Bailiffs

Bank bail out

Bank of England

Banking crisis

Bankruptcy

Base Rate

Basic State Pension

Bear Market

Benefits

Benefits in kind

Bill Payments

Bogus communications

Bond

Budget

Budget 2009

Budget gap

Budget deficit

Budget shortfall

Budgeting

Buildings insurance

Bull Market

Bursary

Business

Business Link

Buy-to-let

C

Capital

Capital Gains Tax (CGT)

Capital allowance

Car scrappage

Car scrappage scheme

Car tax

Card issuer

Carers allowance

Carrier bags

Cash ISA

CCJ

CCJ (County Court Judgements)

CGT (Capital Gains Tax)

Chain letters

Charity

Child benefit

Child poverty bill

Child support

Child tax credits

Child trust fund

Childcare

Children's savings schemes

Chip and PIN

Company Car Tax (CCT)

CCT (Company Car Tax)

Compound interest

Compulsory excess

Compulsory insurance

Consolidation loan

Consumer price index

Contents insurance

Contract of employment

Conveyancing

Corporation Tax

Council of mortgage lenders

Council tax

County Court Judgements (CCJ)

Credit

Credit card

Credit crisis

Credit crunch

Credit limit

Credit rating

Credit reference agency

Credit scoring

Crisis loans

Critical illness insurance

D

Death in Service benefit

Debit cards

Debt

Debt collectors

Debt Management Companies

Dependent

Depreciation

Derivatives

Direct Debit

Direct payment

Direct payments

Disability living allowance

Discount rate mortgage

Dividend

Donations

Downturn

E

Early Retirement

Economic goals/growth

Economic slowdown

Economy

Economic stability

EHIC (European Health Insurance Card)

Electric car

Electric cars incentives

Emergency tax

Employee

Earnings Limit

Employee share scheme

Employment and Support Allowance

Endowment Policy

Equities

Estate

Estate agent

European Health Insurance Card (EHIC)

Eviction

Ex-dividend

Executor

F

Final salary pension scheme

Financial adviser

Financial Excess

Financial Planning

Financial scams

Financial ombudsmen

Financial Services Authority

Financial Year

First time buyers

Fiscal

Fiscal policies

Fiscal stimulus

Fixed rate

Fixed Rate Mortgage

Fixed-term contract

Footsie (FTSE)

Fraud

Freehold

FTSE

Fuel increase (petrol)

Fuel Duty (petrol)

Fund transfer scam

Funding for Unemployment

Futures

G

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

Gearing

Gift aid

Gilts

Global Depression

Global downturn

Global economy

Government Bonds

Government deficit

Green investment

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Gross interest

Growth

Guardian's Allowance

H

HBOS

Hedge Fund

HIP (Home Information Pack)

HiPG (Health in Pregnancy Grant )

Hire purchase

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)

HMRC (HM Revenue and Customs)

Home Information Pack (HIP)

HomeBuy Direct

Housing association

Housing crash

Housing market

Hybrid car

I

Identity fraud

Identity theft

Income

Income protection insurance

Income protection plan

Income support

Income Tax

Independent complaints scheme

Independent financial advisor

Index linked

Individual Savings Accounts (ISA)

Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA)

Industrial tribunal

Inflation

Inheritance Tax

Inland revenue

Insolvency

Instant access accounts

Insurance

Interest (mortgages)

Interest (savings)

Interest free credit

Interest only mortgage

Interest rate

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Internet fraud

Investment

Investment trust

Investment trusts

ISA (Individual Savings Accounts)

Islamic finance

J

Job Seekers Allowance

Joint life insurance

Joint mortgage

K
L

Land registry

Landlord

Lease

Leasehold

Lender

Liability insurance

Life insurance

Life insurance ISA

Liquidation

Lloyds TSB

Loan

Loan shark

Loans

Loan-to-value

Local Housing Allowance (LHA)

LHA (Local Housing Allowance)

M

Managed fund

Margin

Market capitalisation

Maternity allowance

Maternity benefit

MAXI ISA

Mediation

Merchant banker

Mini ISA

Minimum payment

Mis-selling

Money

Money purchase schemes

Mortgage indemnity insurance

Mortgage rescue scheme

Mortgages

MOT

N

National Insurance

National minimum wage

National Savings

Negative equity

New car discounts

NI (National Insurance) contributions

No-claims discount

Northern Rock

O

Occupational pension scheme

Offset mortgage

Offshore savings

Ombudsman

Options

Overdraft

Overdrafts

Overdrawn

P

P/E ratio

P11D

P45

P60

Paternity Benefit

Pay freeze

PAYE

Payment Holiday

Payment protection insurance

Payslip

Pension

Pension adviser

Pensions Credit

Pensions tax relief

Pensioner savers

PEP

Personal allowance

Personal Investment Authority

Personal Loan

Personal pension scheme

Personal taxation

Petrol duty

Phishing

PLC (Public Limited Company)

Ponzi scheme

Pre-budget report

Priority debts

Public Borrowing

Public borrowing requirement

Public company

Public Limited Company (PLC)

Public Sector Borrowing

Put option

Pyramid scheme

Q

Quantitative Easing

Quoted Company

R

RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland)

Receiver

Receivership

Recession

Recovery

Redemption penalty

Redundancy

Remortgage

Rent

Rented accommodation

Renting accommodation

Repayment mortgage

Repossession

Residence and domicile

Retail price index

Retirement

Right to buy

Rights issue

S

Salary

Saving

Savings schemes

Scams

Secured loan

Self assessment

Self-employed

Self-invested personal pension (SIPP)

SERPS (State Earnings Related Pension Scheme)

Share option scheme

Shares

Short selling

Small self-administered scheme (SSAS)

Social fund

Spread

Spread betting

Squeeze

Stakeholder pension

Stamp duty

Standard variable rate

State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS)

State ownership

State Pension

Statement

Statutory Maternity/Paternity/Adoption pay

Statutory sick pay

Stimulus package

Stock market

Stocks

Stocks and shares ISA

Store card

Survey

T

Tapered tax relief

Tax

Tax allowance

Tax bands

Tax breaks

Tax code

Tax credits

Tax office

Tax simplification

Tax relief

Tax avoidance schemes

Tax avoidance measures

Transfers of income streams

Tenancy agreement

Tenancy deposits

Tenant

TESSA

The Budget

Tobacco duty

Toxic asset

Tracker fund

Tracker mortgage

Trade unions

Trust

TSB

TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment)

U

UK economy

Unauthorised overdraft

Underwriter

Unemployed

Unemployment

Unit trust

Unsecured creditor

Unsecured loan

Utilities

V

Valuation

Variable rate mortgage

VAT

VAT reduction

Vehicle excise duty (VED)

Volatility

Voluntary excess

Voluntary liquidation

W

Wages

Wall Street

Will

Winter fuel payments

With Profits endowment

Working tax credit

X
Y

Yield

Youth Capital funds

Youth Opportunity Funds

Z

Zero carbon buildings