More than half a million people are boosting their State Pension by over £5,000 annually through inheritance, according to figures obtained by a pension provider. A freedom of information (FOI) ...

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...

The second-largest county in the United States has established a permanent guaranteed basic income program after the success of a previous pilot version. The Cook County Board of Commissioners ...

Lucy Lazarony is an experienced personal finance journalist and writer who got her start in 1998 writing about financial topics. She writes accessible and easy-to-understand articles about credit, ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ran between 2022 and 2025, during which the government provided 2,000 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Television is expanding its young adult content, optioning Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ bestselling book series The Inheritance Games for development as a scripted series. The project ...

A lesser-known inheritance tax loophole is allowing families to save significantly on their IHT bills – and financial advisers say they are using it with more clients than ever since chancellor Rachel ...

(WBFF) — Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced the launch of a Guaranteed Basic Income program alongside the Community Action Council of Howard County (CAC). The program will see 20 families ...

Universal or guaranteed basic income programs are gaining momentum across the country, as local governments and nonprofits experiment with the bold new alternative to traditional welfare models.

Astral's uv utility simplifies and speeds up working with Python virtual environments. But it has some other superpowers, too: it lets you run Python packages and programs without having to formally ...

Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

There are two entirely reasonable responses to this. One is to worry about the new inheritocracy harming society: how it could corrode incentives to work, say, or widen inequality and distort the ...